Gidday Chris, Sounded like the Quinny did you well. Same here really, I think there's a few boat types, that can punch well above there weight, all be it in the right conditions. Mine, is a bit of a pig in the short chop, the Cuddy is well forward which contributes to that, but it makes for a huge fishing area deck space, suppose that's the trade off. I'm going to be testing out some decent trim tabs once she's back on the water. But she performs well above it's weight and size out wide, fantastic in a following sea really sure footed in the big stuff. Noel had it spot on when he said about the quality of the build of some of these "classics", pretty terrible really. I guess I would luv a newer 6 mtr glass boat to improve things when out wide, but then for me, it would be to big solo or for storage. There's trade offs with any boat, but I know not all boats have the ability to do what other boats do,due to there design. So maybe the question should have been, rather than "underated", which boat punches above it's size.... but there's the dilemma, If I say that mine punches above it's size, there's always a smaller boat capable of claiming the same.
An interesting question would have been, which boat design, absolutely failed !! there must have been some models/brands built that were absolute Lemons ??.
Col