[Capt. Lou]

Same set of circumstances however boat was a 25' CC. First in an inlet a crester caught me napping and engulfed the boat severly cavitating my twin OB's & partially turning the boat around. Second one caught us trying to back down on a Gt in MH during a NE day .
The inlet was head on, water ran down the boat and out over my splah well board pretty quick, the biggest deal here was to get my engines solidly in water and move away.
The second issue put about two feet of water awash to forward of the CC. while backing down on a GT.Hit throttles water evacuated beautifully. If I didn't hit the trottles fast we might have had issues. I agree to an extent that most express type boats will not allow as much water aboard,however the CC"s will handle plenty as well as long as your fired up. We always took out GTs forward on our Rockaway chair,however this was a hot hit and sreaming reels so backing down was our fistr thought . Never again this was middle of November waith minimum 5' seas w/ the occassional 6 plus breaking .
My larger express boat today runs through a lot that is white knuckle for different rigs. However the best boat everbuilt for it's size was the 233 Formula CC ,awesome sea boat,hell on anchor!!