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Running into true 1'-3' ocean chop noticed 20' Aquasport pounding hard till slowed and dropped back behind.

I was running approx. 3,200 rpm with tabs down and we were not pounding.

Meaning...... as I've noted, trim tabs get the bow hull cutting through rather than slapping down.

Head into tight white capped seas 4' and above and it gets much nastier.

BG - you need to calibrate your sea height. There's no way you're running into tight 4ft waves in a v20. My v20 windshield landed in my lap when I tried to make forward headway across stellwagen in those conditions. To this day I feel lucky I didn't become shark bait.

Shrimp......you misread, or misinturpreted again.

I'm saying 1-3 ok, above that much nastier..........much nastier defined as " much nastier."


Simple.

Been in 5 to 7's in mine shrimpin'. The boat did fine, took some water over the bow, wouldn't have wanted to be in a center console. Biggest issue was staying on my feet, slipped once.

I've spent much of my life at sea, so I know my wave heights. Saw 40's once in Alaska!

Read that during the " Perfect Storm " a bouy off well of Cape Cod recorded a 100' wave.

That was a rogue, and possibly somewhere around the vicinity of the eye .

Definitely not V weather.......

Andrea Gale, God rest their souls.

Sister ship to the Andrea Gale....

F/V Hannah Boden off loading Swordfish in New Bedford

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...0-08124341.jpg

Wow, very cool...

We still have a few Sword boats that fish out of New Bedford.
The last one to buy provisions was a boat called Whitewater.
Long trip to the fishing grounds. Usually a 30 day trip. 5 days of steaming there and then 5 days back all to chase the swords on the break of the gulf stream.
Crazy!!

Both the Hanna Bowden and the Andrea Gail were built here at a local shipyard. Eastern ship building.

Phat,
That's cool!
Building cost are pretty high around here. I think lots of the fishing boats are built in Louisiana.
Fairhaven shipyard here built two Scalloper last year. Seems the build cost is getting close. The scallop fishery is big $$$ around here. New Bedford has held the #1 fish port (for $$$ per catch) for a number of years.