My buddy launched out of Kissimee river on north end of Lake Okeechobee heading towards Kings Bar in the lake, we were in his new 17' aluminum weld fisher. we had fished for about thirty minutes when I decided to change baits and stepped down into the boat to hear the water sound under foot. He got it cranked turned on the bilge and headed for the boat ramp, we had about two to three feet waves going in and he was wide open. The pounding we took on the way in was hilarious--not to him at the time. We got back to the ramp and a boat came in behind us after a few minutes, pulled up to us and had saw us coming across the lake and commented wow that was neat I hadn't seen that except in the movies