Dories, shoal water, seaworthy small craft.

[@b_ks]

The Beachcomber Alpha dory was designed from the start to be not just a sport boat but a full blown racing machine. A radical boat that carried a lot of sail and necessitated the crew hiking well out. Built for racing and not for pleasure. Not a design for stormy seas and never meant to be one.

[@JeffreyDRein]

Some gorgeous snapshots too! Dorian's mention sent shivers- it was cat 5 -40 Mike's away and forecast as delivering cat 3 winds at my house... Thank God it spared us, churned over northern Bahamas for stalled as cat 5 a full 36 hours!.... Without hurricanes & unassociated with any front we get sudden pop up summer squals, always fear getting trapped out on the wrong tide for inlet, would need to ride it out at least until the tide changed to make for land through an inlet (or the next one up or down the coast)... Usually the squals form over the everglades moving east over the gulf stream in the afternoon , but occasionally they spawn out of the eastern Gulfstream itself and at night when you can't see them well (assuming no cloud lightning/moon).... There was a bad one last summer.

[@danoyes1]

Ok, so I didn't really address this question in my video, if I was forced to heave to for hours+ off shore waiting for weather to pass I'd definitely choose Centennial as a very dry and capable boat and the below decks provide a secure place to get out of the weather and rest to stay capable and alert.

[@JeffreyDRein]

So awesome definitely expanded my envelope! Ty !

[@danoyes1]

I should probably add both of these boats lines and offset available in John Gardner's work, Alpha is in the Dory Book and in Building Classic Small Craft, Centennial is in Wooden Boats to Build and Use. The Merrimack river and Ipswich ( 2 places I sail regularly) both serious tidal bars with breaking inlets under bad conditions, places I avoid during such conditions but places I successfully navigate with sail and oar.