Learning to enjoy getting smoked on a chest high day is worlds apart from getting smoked on a Cane swell. Oh my you're in for a nice treat. Funny though, cause you'll be all like "i'm a boss on my soft top" and sh*t.... HAHAHA Pray for survival is all I ask, you'll need all the help you can get if you do decide to take on the beast during her "cycle". Don't take any of this wrong MichaelJR, we're not giving you a hard time, we're actually trying to save your life!
Watch out for floating debris: Stairwells, trees, boat pieces, etc. That is why it is a good thing to wait for the clean up day after the blob passes by. Offshores clean out a lot of the garage. I paddled out during the eye of David many years ago, and there was so much crap floating in the water that I got one and ran back home (the waves were victory at sea). I just wanted to say I went out during the eye. I was 19 years old, dumb, but lucky.
Dude- they don't call me Mr.Belmar for nothin! Btw - that was the last swell, when everywhere else was chest high