db wrote on Sep 8^th, 2011 at 5:09pm:

If I were 240 and sitting in the bow as a wave washed over it, that would certainly put the fear of god into me knowing the stern paddler didn't see it and can't easily hear me attempt to relay that info. I've been piling all the weight I can into the stern more and more my last three trips. That worries me 'cause I can't see the stern paddling down wind in a gusty stiff breeze in any boat.

Thus the axiom, Fat Man Bails.   :D

I'm usually the Fat Man and have often been inches deep while my bowman is high & dry.