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Great lakes boaters. Would a 'deck boat' (tri-hull, open bow) be suitable for the big lakes?
I'm boat shopping in SW MI right now and finding a lot of decent deals on 19 foot tri-hull deck boats. I live by a lot of nice inland lakes but am hoping to hit Lake Michigan occasionally. Are Deep Vs really the only way to go? I'm not talking about gale seas but would it be reasonable on a calm day? I don't see a lot of them out there.
No!... Lake Michigan (all of the Great Lakes really) can be as rough if not rougher then the opean sea...
In fact, I went through the same situation as you are now, many-many years ago, when my work tranfered me from Texas to Buffalo, NY. But an experienced boater, (co-worker) talked me out of making a serious mistake. I didn't really like the idea at first, but, boy am I glad I took his advice.
If not a sailboat, a "heavy, solid" deep V is really the only way to go. Most of the time, it will be the bi-directional, bilateral "chop" in the water that just murders the pontoons and the more flat bottom vessels.
In my 50 years of boating (17 on the Great Lakes) I have seen more vessels destroyed by those waters then anywhere else in the world - and it is the only place where I have actually witnessed a boat sink - and I witnessed a dozen or so of those sink on the water, for no reason at all, other then the rough water and the wrong boat.
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