Another Accident
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Originally Posted by formula242-502
Bad weekend on the chain, here are some shots of stepped bottom Powerquest that flipped last night
If you look at the pic of the boat, the drive is trimmed much much too far in. Can it even be trimmed in any more? It's so sad to see this happen.
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I have been on the Chain for over 15 years. It is getting more crowded and there are definately more ignorant, arrogant boaters than ever before.
This is the third similar type of accident this year on the Chain. All three have been step bottom hulls (Sunsation, Elininator and Donzi) during daylight, two of which the drives were trimmed up for speed. All three accidents happened during high speed turns in areas that these manuevers aren't safe even if performed to perfection. None were caused by collision avoidance.
I agree with lanyards and wearing vests. I do a lot of speed runs in my 24 at 85+ MPH and always wear a lanyard and vest. I am also by myself, not turning with my drives trimmed up to the moon, and in a conventional Vee Bottom. I have a over one hundred hours of seat time in the boat and am not out to impress anyone. For a casual boat ride this is not practical or enjoyable, lets be honest.
Enough with the regulation, licensing and all the safety gear talk. People need to be more responsible, drive to their ability and pay more attention to what they are doing and where. Too many innocent people, just wanting to go for a boat ride are getting hurt due to the captains negligence and ignorance.
All the licensing, regulations, education and PDFs in the world aren't going to prevent stupidity. And so far, the cause all of these accidents have been attributed to stupidity and showing off.
I support safety and safe boating, I just don't believe these are safe people.
This is the third similar type of accident this year on the Chain. All three have been step bottom hulls (Sunsation, Elininator and Donzi) during daylight, two of which the drives were trimmed up for speed. All three accidents happened during high speed turns in areas that these manuevers aren't safe even if performed to perfection. None were caused by collision avoidance.
I agree with lanyards and wearing vests. I do a lot of speed runs in my 24 at 85+ MPH and always wear a lanyard and vest. I am also by myself, not turning with my drives trimmed up to the moon, and in a conventional Vee Bottom. I have a over one hundred hours of seat time in the boat and am not out to impress anyone. For a casual boat ride this is not practical or enjoyable, lets be honest.
Enough with the regulation, licensing and all the safety gear talk. People need to be more responsible, drive to their ability and pay more attention to what they are doing and where. Too many innocent people, just wanting to go for a boat ride are getting hurt due to the captains negligence and ignorance.
All the licensing, regulations, education and PDFs in the world aren't going to prevent stupidity. And so far, the cause all of these accidents have been attributed to stupidity and showing off.
I support safety and safe boating, I just don't believe these are safe people.
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Offthefront. That is a great product. I didn't know there was such a product. Thanks for the info.
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Originally Posted by BADKACHINA
I guess everyone is assuming all boats come with lanyards. I know mine didn't, don't ask me why, everyone else I know with the same boat has them but maybe the day they rigged mine the guy forgot to put one in. Anyhow I've been meaning to add one for long time now, I guess I should figure out where to order one and put on in. Do all boats come with lanyards as standard equipment?
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Hopefully this will become law so that we can all be safer on the water.
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I'm very sad to hear of all these accidents.
One thing that I started doing recently when I realized I did a couple big speed runs and noticed after that my lanyard was on the floor.
I drape the lanyard over the bottom of my steering wheel. Can't steer the boat with it there, reminds you to put it on.
One thing that I started doing recently when I realized I did a couple big speed runs and noticed after that my lanyard was on the floor.
I drape the lanyard over the bottom of my steering wheel. Can't steer the boat with it there, reminds you to put it on.
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I keep thinking that if you do not put one on and get ejected out of the boat where will the boat end up? I know with mine it will go until it hits something or runs out of gas. the throttles do not move back by them selves.
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Originally Posted by TwinStepGun
I always love to read when someone has an accident and doesn't die how stupid they are. It's always enlightening to read how 100% perfect some people are in wearing a lifejacket everytime they step on the dock and a kill switch whenever the engine starts.
I have been boating a LONG time. Alot longer than some of these perfect people and accidents can happen to anyone. Not everyone makes the right decisions everytime and it is very fortunate that no one was hurt. I am sure the operator has learned a valuble lesson and will be twice as carefull the next time.
Maybe the guy was an idiot and shouldn't be on the water. But, maybe he just made a mistake?
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I have been boating a LONG time. Alot longer than some of these perfect people and accidents can happen to anyone. Not everyone makes the right decisions everytime and it is very fortunate that no one was hurt. I am sure the operator has learned a valuble lesson and will be twice as carefull the next time.
Maybe the guy was an idiot and shouldn't be on the water. But, maybe he just made a mistake?
Well said. Anyone of us can make a mistake, esp. at the speeds some of us run