I've never seen one of those hulls cut thru a 3' chop and I have a lot of experience with those boats. I believe St. Johns fishing lodge also used them when they were at Milbanke. they were also called ITM's I believe not sure which name was 1st ocean sport or itm, I think they went belly up a couple of times and changed names. when Sewell's first got them for the charlotte explorer, I took one (with another sewell;s guide) over to thrasher from horseshoe bay to fish for 1/2 a day, nice calm day, they had new 50 4stroke mercs (if my memory is correct,lol) . we used a portable 5 gallon tank (also had main tank fairly full) , we couldn't believe it but we got back to horseshoe bay still using the 5 gal tank, not much left but super fuel efficient and was fun to fish out of. I also used them a few times at hippa on the charlotte explorer, not fun in the wind. they also had 1 at qcl back in the late 80's, they called it the boot and you were doomed if you got stuck guiding with this pofs. it leaked and pounded like no other aluminum boat in the fleet, unbelievable. that is probably overpriced for that hull in the ad as it was used in the charlottes, I sure wouldn't be trusting those welds going offshore on that boat.