[ThunderSleeps]

Well, if you have sea room and aren't particularly prone to seasickness out in it is safer. Away from land, in deep water the waves aren't bad - more large swells than anything else. Sure, you're going to rock and roll, but they shouldn't build and be sharp as they are in shoal waters. That's why you need sea room if you can't get away from it. You want sea room so you can run in whatever direction you need to so as to take the seas and winds at the most favorable angle.

Now, if you lose a hatch and take on water... Or the seas build to the point they steepen and do start breaking, or wind or land force you to an unfavorable heading...then you've got a real problem.

Sure, 90 ft isn't big by current ocean going standards... But remember, La Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were each not much over 50 ft in length. Thousands of wooden ships around the size of HMS Bounty have weathered thousands of storms through the years. Sure, many sank, most didn't. I'd have taken those odds, I'd have crewed HMS Bounty.

[Venturer]

You might have been rescued, you might have gone to the bottom.

It didn’t work out so well for them.

The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria did not have to weather a hurricane.Yes thousands of ship did weather the storms, and the treasure hunters are still diving on hundreds that didn’t.

Me I will take the shore, and tie that bad boy to the dock, rather than take a chance in a wooden boat in a hurricane.