> What don't you like about their handling in rough water? What do they do
> negatively in the rough stuff that soft-chined or multi-chined boats don't
> do.

> I'm not being nit-picky--the only boats I've had in rough water were my
> Ches 17, and round-hulled plastic bathtubs (Never had a quality
> soft-chined boat in rough water)

> Shawn hi S. I'm talking degrees of dislike not catagorical rejection. I have paddled a bunch of different kinds of boats. There are a lot of other characteristics besides -hard chine- that affect handling. There is a twitchiness that is different. I wonder if it has something to do with edges forward of one's hips. Some glass boats with long, no buoyancy bows and sterns, and fat midsections have a different kind of twitchiness in waves.