About the worst we have been in started as a calm day. We left out of Perdido Pass fishing the Red Snapper "World Championship." Run out 35 miles in about, an hour and half to two hours, to the pipeline to try that out. About the time i dropped anchor and tied the anchor off, a wave come over the bow and flooded the open cabin and deck. I looked up and our flat seas had turned into what looked like 8' 10' seas. Looked at dad and he said, Lets get the
outta here. Pulled the anchor back up and we headed in, constantly getting slammed with waves over the bow. It took us 5 hours to get within 5 miles of shore and then it calmed down.
We decided to try to fish and found some wrecks pretty close. We did limit out in snapper, but since that day i have not been back to the pipeline. I can still hear the sound of the sliding hatch banging when we hit waves. I guess its time to make some hold-downs for it.
One big plus of the 250 Sportsman over the V20 is how well the deck drained. But we never got in any excessive water in it either.