I echo what everyone else has said so far. With that minimal amount of freeboard on the hull, you do sit real close to the water. I weigh my boat down for wake boarding and it is a pretty decent wake for a ski boat hull. We have gotten pretty good at driving with big waves but again, you have to pay attention as you WILL SCOOP WATER over the bow. Case in point, we were set up to idle into a channel and this major @$$ hole was coming out in a fountain and he decides that he can't wait an additional 5 seconds to add power and start getting on plane, would have swamped my stern if I wasn't ready for the dick move.
'86 Comp TS6M - Reborn 2016
Riding a HO Sports CX Ski