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Fishing with TC yesterday in his Gator-Flats. To get back to the ramp we ran a few miles, at planning speed, against a short, steep, heavy chop. Any hard chined, flat bottom boat, would have had us soaked to the bone shortly after we got going. With his flat bottom, round chined boat, we caught a little spray about 2-3 times and arrived at the ramp dry.

The ride was a little rough, to be expected of a flat bottom boat, but not like it would have been in a hard chined boat.

I ran from up close to Aucilla to Enconfina yesterday roughly parallel to that short, hard chop coming out of the southeast, About 4. I was planed off and pleasantly surprised how little spray I got with my new boat. Also the ride was easier than I would have expected or gotten out of my old boat.. Not to derail your thread Charles !

I ran against that same stuff yesterday at SGI. I went real shallow to get away from it, I was coming back from Little St. George. I was pretty nasty around 2pm.

sundown wrote:Not to derail your thread Charles !

Not at all.

I just wanted to share something I learned on yesterday's trip.

Something else, too, that I like.

At one point in calm water TC put the boat into a fairly hard turn. A hard chined boat would have started to slide, but his rolled chine boat stood up on it's side and took the turn like a V hull.

Charles wrote:

sundown wrote:Not to derail your thread Charles !

Not at all.

I just wanted to share something I learned on yesterday's trip.

Something else, too, that I like.

At one point in calm water TC put the boat into a fairly hard turn. A hard chined boat would have started to slide, but his rolled chine boat stood up on it's side and took the turn like a V hull.

Let me know when the wedding is, I will send a beautiful boquet of MULLET.