On Sep 30, 10:03*pm, W1TEF wrote:
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:48:13 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

On Sep 30, 5:24*pm, "A.Boater" wrote:
With a competent captain, it isn't.

Agreed. *I've had mine in Charleston Harbor in 2+ foot chop, and it's
OK. *Our local lake has a large main body of water, and I've been out
on it when it was really whitecapping... so bad I only saw one other
boat out. *No problem. *In fact, it handles that with a ride that's
much smoother than any other kind of boat, except one of those fishing
cats.

Of course, once it starts to impact the front of the boat, it's a
really wet ride, and no fun. *No thanks.

I'm not sure what the argument is here, but mine handled just fine
back in Feburary running the rip on the way out to the center of the
lake out by bomb island. *I was surprised actually because I thought
it would be a little wetter than it was. *Once we got out to the
middle, the wind with that long fetch was pulling up two/three footers
and we stayed reasonably dry. *Drier than we would have been in the
Ranger anyway. *:)

Of course being a bit of a wind sail, it moved around a little but it
wasn't bad.

Did I tell you about my adventure one morning running up the lake
almost to Greenwood?

That was fun. *:)

It was some silly huffing and puffing...

Yeah, for an inland lake, Murray can get sloppy when the wind is
right. So you ran up towards Lake Greenwood? I've heard that some
people make the run up to the dam there on jetskis. It gets pretty
skinny and shallow in the river. I've never been far past the double
bridges on the west end of the lake. Espcially now since I'm on the
far end, where your Ranger is.

Looks like Archie is building more dry storage at Jake's. They are
just breaking ground. Might be a chance to move yours inside, huh?