Roughest conditions you faced in the V ?

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Originally Posted by captpete13

My worst day out on my V would have to be the day my wife and I launched in Cape May and ran across to Lewes De. Everything was great on the way there. Seas were calm,sunny,warm etc. We drove around in Lewes ate lunch. Then I noticed it got windy and it started to rain. So we headed back to the inlet. It was nasty. An honest 4-5' steep chop. I asked my wife,who gets sea sick, if she wanted me to get her a ferry ride. She declined. So away we went. The thrashing began immediatly. We were heading right into it at first. Once we cleared the harbor breakwater it got a little more spread out but now it was coming from almost all directions. My wife was sitting at the aft seat with white knuckles holding a line I tied to a cleat for something for her to hold onto. A few waves came over the bow. I believe a few waves were 6-7' and still pretty steep. I remember looking at the depth finder reading over 100' depths thinking wow that's a lot deaper than I can touch. We took the beating all the way back to the west side of the Cape May canal. when we got inside I looked back at my wife. She was soaking wet,miserable,exhausted. She said to me"Don't expect me to go out on the boat with you for a while". Enough said.

That's some BIG water across there..........BIG, and especially dangerous if the rips weren't given a wide berth..... Some tragic events have taken place between those two points- Cape May and Delaware. If it's " light and variable" all day........or at the worst 5-10 knots I'd do that trip, assuming calm the day before too !