The only person in this thread I've seen seriously suggest a fun run in the rough to shake 'em all down owns a 46' Skater. Haven't seen anyone show any interest in throwing their hat in that ring, either.

Hmmm...

Are we talking the slop here ( LOTO ) or real wave action?
Next Summer pick a date to go north for a run.
Id love it and would go boat choice is 41 Apache or my 40 Skater!!!

I miss the big pond Lake Michigan, waves coming over the bow of our 370 Sea Ray.

This sounds like a good idea for a new thread! Thumper, you mind if I start it?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you can probably name the location as far as water conditions are concerned.

But I don't want to speak entirely for this Skater and infringe on his freedoms.

Have at it I'm in
Nothing like taking a set across 5 - 6 or 7's at speed

I think given the nature of the beast, be it ocean or big pond, it would have to depend on the driver/owner.

The subjectivity of being hammered in rough water is dependent upon the driver willing to be beat upon, and how much. Equally important is the owner of the boat. While some may just beat the boat and themselves to death, others may not want to do this.

I suppose you could get into water rough enough where the boat is simply not capable of doing it. But I think it's the owner/driver that gives up first.

How would you rate such a challenge?

What are you trying to say LOL!

"FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK"

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Smiles

Back to work for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5jjNXMILI

In this video up to the 1:30 minuite mark we have only been running 30-40 mph and you can see the beating we are taking in the 46 skater. Needless to say it was really choppy. Then when the green flag went up us and almost 100 other boats took off, in the field there were 50' canopied Mystic race boats with turbines, outerlimits with canopies, apache's, big nortechs, ect. plus all of the worlds fastest pleasure boats. At the 3:05 minuite mark we let off and you can see the line of boats that are most of the fastest boats in the world way behind us. The closest boats to us were the canopied race boats with turbines and they were still 1/4 mile back. Keep in mind this was not just a fun run where people were going to go boating. At the dock for the last two hours before the run everyone was saying how they were going to out run everyone, people from there said they run in the rough water there everyday and that they would be in the lead, ect. we did not need to say anyting, we knew there was nothing there that would run with a 14 year old 46 skater that can run 140 in that water. (we went out for a test run and knew how rough it was). We were running in the 130 range for most of that run. We know that if the water had been smoother there were probably 15 boats there that would have beaten us but not in that water. After the first card stop it was rough enough that only 5 or 6 of us went on to the second card stop. We went to all of them. Video is Jim Lee in his 46 skater Freedom US1.

Well, that is certainly a good way to rate that challenge