Furthest offshore in your V boat

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

I did bring extra fuel, had above deck 15 gallons plus another 5 gallon can or two. Still worried about running out after beating our way back taking wind and waves to the face. The v21 holds 63 gallons by the way. I know because I pumped the tank completely out and filled it up with 63 gallons.

Catch anything out there ?

[Blue_Runner]

65 miles to the gulfstream out of Murrells Inlet, SC. Headed out to troll ballyhoo for about 2 hours, then stop and bottom fish on the way in. Went to Winyah Scarp to then headed to the Georgtown hole and beyond. We caught 2 gaffer mahi on that trip. Dropping back in to a spot 55 miles from the rocks about 120 ft, I don't remember exactly how many bottom fish but the box got pretty full of triggerfish, silver snapper, vermillion snapper, as it did every time I ever went to that spot. Once you started catching triggers they would follow the boat around on the drift. A few of them were 5 lbers.

[bgreene]

Adventurous for sure !
How many hours was the ride back in the chop….ugh that’s not fun.

I’ve run into real 2’-4’ tight white cap chop on ocean in my V21 and it was not fun.
Tucked in behind a work boat that helped quite a bit .
If all goes as planned I’ll have a full report on how my 233 (24’) Formula handles chop.
Ran it last summer and hugely impressed but more conditions to evaluate .

[Blue_Runner]

It started off fine for the first 10 miles or so it was looking like we would be back in about 2.5 hours. Once it kicked up we of course had to slow down. I couldn't afford to go the comfortable route by just coming off plane and plowing through it because of fuel concerns. I don't know how long it took to get back but it was one of those deals where it was gonna be 2.5 hours, then over an hour later it became 3 hours LOL. Would've been no big deal with plenty of fuel.

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

It started off fine for the first 10 miles or so it was looking like we would be back in about 2.5 hours. Once it kicked up we of course had to slow down. I couldn't afford to go the comfortable route by just coming off plane and plowing through it because of fuel concerns. I don't know how long it took to get back but it was one of those deals where it was gonna be 2.5 hours, then over an hour later it became 3 hours LOL. Would've been no big deal with plenty of fuel.

Absolutely ….good story , very real