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My experience says a Boston whaler is not a rough water boat. It's a
myth.

In an ultimate sense, it's going to stay afloat. But it's true that some of
them can fill to the gunwales in a hurry if you drive them hard into a wave.

We had a Nauset (16'-7") from 1963 through 1982. I drove it into short,
steep waves under Ft. Lauderdale's 17th St. Causeway and filled her to the
gunwales once. I bucketed out of that one. Then I drove it into a submarine
wake coming out of the inlet there. Bucketed out again.

Some years later I drove into the short chop entering Barnegat Inlet in NJ.
This was verrry big chop. Then I got caught beam-to trying to get out of
there. The Whaler stayed upright in pretty big, steep waves, even filled
with water, and I bucketed out again.

In all three of those cases we had wind running opposite to tide, so the
chop was very short and steep. I also should point out that all of these
misadventures happened when I was a teenager. g

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Ed Huntress