Damn QQ, You sound like the guys on thehulltruth forum.
That is me and 2 of The Beastie Girls fishing team. Take a look at Amy sliding up into the helm seat at the 35 second mark and taking the rest of the ride sitting down. I don't know of many CC boats that you can ride sitting down and we do that all the time. One of the girls on the team sleeps on the forward coffin box all the time in 3-4' seas on our way out. Do that on your boat. OH I FORGOT, you don't have one.
I only had the 33 for 2 weeks when they said "Lets get it on, we want it rough!"
Believe it or not those were 4-6' December seas with a 15-20 knt NE wind, a couple days after a cold front passage. We were running 26 knts (30mph). I ran 30 minutes like that and finished 22 miles, 85 degree heading, off Pacific Light when they stopped filming me and went back to pick up the 270SD for their shoot. I ran the 270SF WorldCat for 6 years and was utterly impressed with this ride.
There is 2 reasons why the seas don't look that big. #1. The boat is huge!!!! The boat is 7' from the from the keel to the casting deck in the bow. Also, remember that it is not a water shot which would show the wave heights better. This was filmed with a chopper and at the lowest point was 30' above the water. #2. They slowed the film rate down on my video so you could see much clearer and easier, how the boat performs.
The 270 SD was filmed right after me and you can see the difference in the clips. He was supposed to run beside me and take some water shots but after 100yds he said "forget that, I can't keep up!" and pulled back on the throttles.
Check out the 270SD trying to run the same water at about 5 mph slower.
http://videos.worldcat.com/270sd.wmv
WorldCat has remarked to me many times that they will never shoot the 330TE or the 320EC again because of remarks like yours.
These boats make it the seas look small and easy, making the videos almost unbelievable.
I know I will NEVER run another V-hull CC under 36feet.
Capt. Jim
The BEAST