or have been built suffer from this design deficiency. They install the instrument panel down low in the cockpit because there is easy access to the back of the panel through the cockpit locker and they have a nice flat spot to mount it. It's not until you start getting up into the 40 or so foot range with steering pedestals that you start seeing a change. I'll bet your boat has your panel down low with, maybe, a plexiglass cover over about half the panel to protect it from spray. Am I right? I would move the panel or design some sort of a waterproof hatch cover over it if I were you. That trip to Cabo is when I developed Peppers Corollary". Pepper's Corollary" states that you're in deep shit when your boat length is exceeded by the wind strength by 5 knots.