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Originally Posted by throwback
Ok can hear the screaming already but Although V20s are great little boats but are marginal as open ocean boats. Twenty foot is twenty foot. Boats have some waek points the windshields are crappy take a hard look the Inboard boats are not selfbailing and at least the early boats have limited floataion. Evan a 1200 gal rule is not much help if your swamped. Also the batteries are prone to getting drowned alsa no pump power. No I am not bashing a fine little boay just suggesting that you don't expect to musch from a 20 footer. Wrote an article last year for Big Game Fishing Magazine about fishing offshore in a small boat included a picture of my 27 footer nda 24 albe in rough weather. Seas were flat all morning blew up around 11am *into 7 foot seas. *Conditions not foorecast a 20 footer would have been history. MJ was very lucky that another wave did not roll over them or the story would have bbe different. Believe in Murphy I do *
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Hmmm. First off, I think you mean SEAWORTHYNESS. Secondly, 30 knot winds with 7 footers breaking over the bow of my v-20? Sounds like a normal winter day off of Wasaw Sound here. ;)
Marginal as open ocean boats? ?!? I would have to say your open water experience in a v-20 is very limted then. To say a 27 footer is going to be more seaworthy than a 20 footer is like saying, "you know, that water stuff sure is wet." And to say a v-20 is a "marginal" open water boat just means you have never spent much, if any time on a v-20 on the open water.
What happened to MJ was a freak accident. And, surely does not reflect on the seaworthyness of his boat. I think it's a testament to the toughness of the hull and the skill of the captain that he made it back.
Besides, if he had been in a Mako or Grady he probably would have been swimming. ;) ;) ;) ;D