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Spent a summer out there as a mate on a 26 fortier. Mostly on the inner shoals off waske but made the occasional venture farther south. The big thing to remember is that it can change in a hurry out there and you have to watch it constantly. If after the slack, things start to hump up quickly and you're in a small boat, get the hell out quick because within an hour, it can go from basically flat to 6-8 and very steep.
I was leaning over the transom grabbing a short bass by the jig and the angler backed into the controls at the stern and pushed the throttle up by half. If it weren't for the rudder, i'd have been a goner. We were backed into a rip with about 6-8 foot waves about 6 in a row. I watched a small lobster buoy float by the boat one day into that rip. It went over the first wave and then under came up after the last wave. Not a place to just go on a whim.
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