v20 seaworthness
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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