swathdiver
Full Access Member
That's good. A number of years ago the craze was light weight composite hulls and people soon learned that was folly. They rode terrible in a sea and beat the passengers and the hulls up pretty good. I remember watching once a Grady White's hull flexing from just being moved around the yard.
I don't remember how thick the hull was on the Island Hopper but we were once hit by a go-fast offshore and it did nothing to the hull and just bent the railing, didn't even pop the screws out of the deck. A big mallet fixed the railing. His boat was holed and needed a new bow, had to keep it on plane to keep from sinking.
What inlet are you running in and out of?
I don't remember how thick the hull was on the Island Hopper but we were once hit by a go-fast offshore and it did nothing to the hull and just bent the railing, didn't even pop the screws out of the deck. A big mallet fixed the railing. His boat was holed and needed a new bow, had to keep it on plane to keep from sinking.
What inlet are you running in and out of?