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On Jan 14, 5:49 pm, HK wrote:
Calif Bill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:42:15 -0500, HK wrote:
So the best boat for the ocean is a flat raft. Low transom, low sides.
Drains fast.
Thank you for your contribution to the discussion, Forrest.
LOL!!!
Points for Harry.
Not really. Except for having a response. According to HK, the best boat
for the ocean is a fast draining one.
On a relatively small fishing boat going out on the real ocean, yeah,
the ability to drain off water that comes aboard is damned important.- Hide quoted text -

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At least as important as keeping it out in the first place, which a
well deigned boat should do... in my opinion...

There's no way to keep water out of a small boat whose occupants are
playing around on the ocean. You get spray, you hit the occasional huge
wake, you take a greenie over the bow, you stop too fast and your wake
collapses against your transom, et cetera, so forth, and so on.

Anyone who says otherwise, in small boats, has no experience in
small boats out on the ocean.