GBG's point was why I was considering the large boat to begin with. When I rented the place of Rattlesnake in September I rented a boat in Wolfeboro and had to cross the broads, fortunately the lake was like glass on the voyage from the marina to the house but in the following days where there was only so much as a slight breeze I found myself getting slammed up and down in the broads.
Now I am sure inexperience played into it as much as the size and shape of the boat but when I returned the boat and was shooting the breeze with the dock hand I mentioned getting tossed around out there and he told me in his opinion 20' was too small for the lake and that in his opinion 23' is about as small as you want to go, not necessarily because of the length but because the hull is a deeper Vee and it made sense to me that it would cut through the water better instead of riding more on top of it.
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