The Sea Hunt is a fine boat for what it is designed for which is a coastal runner and bay runner. She'll take water over the bow fine but would not recommend offshore. The break water can be pretty rough in a small boat.
A thing alot of boaters don't realize is if you go out real early typically the break water will be at it's calmest point. Coming back in will be much rougher and many newbies get out and can't get back in.
A GPS is nice but for coastal running a compass will typically find you shore. In a small boat, it is much more important to have a weather radio so you can keep track of fronts and wave heights.
A boats speed is greatly influenced by waves. Stay close to shore till you get to know what you boat can handle as compared to the weather radio. Hearing it on the radio and being in it can be two entirely different things.
In my 10 years on the Gulf, I would not even go out with a front approaching. The Ocean is Gods way of telling us just how insignificant we really are. It's force is greater than anything man has ever created.
One time, I went out in a 40' flying bridge and got caught in a tropical depression with 25' waves. It was nothing like the movies. There was no pattern, up, side, side, down, up side,down, down, etc. You can't stand up and you can't set down just hang on and flap like a flag in the wind. Sometimes we would crest a wave and drop the 25'. I though the hull would crack with the jar. Other times, we would go into a trough and the walls would just crash from all sides on the boat. We would bob back to the surface. I would have be scared to death but to tell you the truth I was so sick I wanted to die and I spend about 30 days a year on a boat.
I'm not trying to scare you but hopefully give you a little respect for the mother of all life is not to be messed with.
Tj