Fished a Thursday night tx last night here on Lake Wylie, usually about 50-60 boats, 6:30- 11:00 pm. Wind was blowing around 20, real strong and it was rough but no bad weather was supposed to be coming in. My partner and I headed to a couple of coves to get out of some of the wind, I looked up about 9:30 and there was a straight line of clouds like it had been drawn in by someone with a paint brush, stars on one side and storms on the other, right over our heads. I told my partner we needed to head closer to the ramp (5 miles away) and I no more than spoke when the wind burst on us with rain drops. Wind was clocked at 67 mph at the airport nearby. We took off out of the cove and when I rounded the point to the lake, there was circular wind, not a water spout but more like a dust devil on water like you would see in a parking lot. The lake was so rough that it was breaking over the seawalls on the shore under the lights that I could see. We couldn't run because it was dark and I couldn't see the waves well enough to try to negotiate them. I just trimmed down and tried surfing them. We took water on several times but never speared any waves, I was more concerned with the hull cracking like an egg the way we were coming down on the waves.We made it back, pieces of the trolling motor in the floor of the boat and screws ripped out of my hotfoot the only damage I could find. The tornado sirens had went off and a bunch of transformers exploded so the ramp and nearby restaurant (T-Bones) were dark, everyone was either gone or in line to load their boats. My partner was about 18 years old and this was his first tournament. Bless his heart, lol.

I went out this morning to inspect the boat for stress cracks, fully expecting to see them at the transom and trolling motor. Not a mark on it that I can find anywhere. I can't tell you how impressed I am, no bass boat is designed to take what we went through last night.