On 8 Feb 2007 07:52:58 -0800, "Short Wave Sportfishing"
wrote:

Great point. It's like working the Charlestown Breachway. Perfectly
calm day outside, six foot breakers on the tide going into.

Tough to do in a smallish boat.

Especially when you are upside down with people in the water.

People who are moving up from smaller boats tend to think of a 25
footer as being large. I used to, because most of my time on the
water as a kid was spent in 14 to 17 ft runabouts.

However even with our new SeaRay 270 it is still pretty easy to get
beat up on open water. We were out on the Gulf of Mexico two weeks
ago with just a moderate 12 kt breeze, and that was plenty. Not
dangerous by any means, but rough enough to require a substantial
speed reduction.

Now if I still had my old Bertram 33, it would have been damn the
torpedoes...