what is the best way to run in rough water

Wfo

Ok, on a serious note, I had a 93 with twin 454 carbed mercs. I have quite a few hours in that boat. We were in some pretty nasty stuff on the great lakes several times. For the size, if you measure the boat its not a 29, never figured that out, the boat handles pretty well. Never needed tabs unless you wanted them. A lot of the times in the rough, I would just tuck the drives in and go as fast as comfortable.

What size was it

So when you measured it how long was it...the boat I mean!

without measuring swim platform 27'5" with platform 29'.1"

It's like the velocity 280, it measures 26.4' and 28.6 with the swim platform.

Yep, I guess how all of them do it.

Early 90's they changed the way they measure boats, and some companies (velocity) changed there 260 into a 280 including the platform, they shouldn't have as it is a bolt on, Formula did it the opposite, 80's had a bolt on platform, so a 272 + platform was actually close to 29, I believe 28'11 if i recall, my 303 includes the plat form so deduct 2ft or so and its 28 long, not much bigger then the org 272