Greg,
That post gave a chuckle, my brother in law decided to go through a
large yacht's wake head on. Myself and his dad were sitting in the bow
section, each on different couches, his dad on starboard, me on port. He
plowed into that wave and we were drenched in green water. I wasn't a happy
camper but so goes boating. Another time he was out on his wave runner
(trailered it down from Michigan), he made a run for our starboard beam. On
the aft port couch sat our digital camera, I thought he was going to slow
down and come along side. I soon realized that he wasn't slowing down and
was on a collision course, at the last moment he did a 180. Needless to say
he threw up a tidal wave, I had just enough time to leap on the camera to
protect it from the wave. Now that time....if I could have got a hold of
him...well you know.
Paul

"Greg" wrote in message
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I have seen pontoon boats "submarine" , where the wave over the front
pushed the bow down and then the momentum drove them well underwater

Been there, done that. The first day I had my boat I got caught in open
water
bringing it home. What happens is it submarines but then the prop comes
out of
the water and you pop back out. After a couple of those I figured out
quartering the sea was the trick, just like most boats. I ended up
"tacking" my
way home since the course was dead into the sea. That was the nastiest day
I
have had on the water in this boat. Seas at about 4-6 and sea fog so bad I
couldn't see land. (with a Wal-Mart compass I wasn't sure about)
I would not have done it if I knew it was that bad. The water where I
started
was fairly well protected. The only bad stretch was across the mouth of
the
Caloosahatchee near that Sanibel Bridge we are arguing about in the
$27,500
speeding ticket thread. It was about 2 miles of hell and I was back
"inside"
again.