Jason honestly my CC 21' rides just like a 23'. My main area that I fish the most is approx 25nm so I cover alot of ground in that boat and even more so to our snapper banks and then gulf stream being 55nm and 75nm respectively. I am very comfortable in 2-3' seas and I can usually make about 23knts into a head/quartering sea and still get around 2.7mpg.
Now with a following sea, this is my Wellcraft's time to shine. Ive never rode in another boat that has handled it so firmly. Ive ran through 4'ers doin 33-35knts and gettin over 3mpg. Of course it occasionally hits the brakes but the majority of the time she is just straight kickin azz.
Not sure if this is attributed to my CC having more weight in the back but she sits up in a following sea and the bow has no problem climbing up/pushing through the head sea.......and we just gettin ready to celebrate her 30th b-day in a couple of years and I just got my first stress fracture in the gelcoat......not bad for 28 years
Oh and thanks for the link MJ.....now I want a tower!!!!
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Lucky Jack - .......The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seaboat: weatherly, stiff and fast, very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime.
85' Wellcraft 20 Fisherman "Guale Girl"
1979 Alumnacraft 14 - STILL got holes in it
2006 WS Tarpon160f - "Mudd Butt"
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