Fished outof skeeter 20'er years back on big water,as nice as they look and well finished not a fan in big waves,but maybe they tweaked the hull design,yarcraft warrior ranger are built for big water impo....no offense new toys are great.That said,fished a tourny out of lund 2025 on big water one time/last time 8'ers buddy tried to skip the waves damn near bit my tongue off bouncing, just a big tin can.