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Old 12-28-2010, 07:39 PM
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And she said 'who you gonna please with that?' ,and I said 'me'.

U been snif'n 2 much resin Bubba!!!!
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Been in an A/T in rough water. Very impressive riding boat!
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by wrinkleface
Pat, U ocean run'n boyz must measure waves dif than us great lake yanks!!!!
Running on top usually makes the waves look small. Been on that great lake. We used to be out of Illinois!
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:30 AM
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I have ridden with Pat and have drivin the 37 AT with Pat on board in the snotty water Trust me the boat is amazing in the rough stuff Pat NEVER looks good LOL

Here ya go another modern boat (39 Skater V) running the snot in lake Michigan and doing great

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHsCkQ2nbo[/youtube]
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Or how about Cigarettes

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Lots of newer stuff running in the chop here

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This was us running our Cigarette in Miami to Key West

Not a new boat but not an old resin bucket either

Watch us cut through the water at the :40 mark it was snoty that day on the ocean Boat cut right through it

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQeourn0AM[/youtube]

By the way notice i was the only one not wearing his life jacket. I would NEVER do that again, soon after this i started to realize the importace of wearing a life jacket any time you are on plane at an event

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Originally Posted by richanton
Stupid question, but how come we never see video of the modern boats running fast in big water? Every time I am searching for rough water vids on youtube or OSO all I find are Apache vids. Is it a handling issue with modern boats? If you tried that in a twin step cig or a quad step OL would you find yourself upside down?
+1. Great question. It also seems like the racing today is in areas with flatter water than it used to be. Those old vids show long straight runs in huge water. Now it seems the straightaway is for a short time, then they slow down for a turn.
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Originally Posted by richanton
Stupid question, but how come we never see video of the modern boats running fast in big water? Every time I am searching for rough water vids on youtube or OSO all I find are Apache vids. Is it a handling issue with modern boats? If you tried that in a twin step cig or a quad step OL would you find yourself upside down?
Another problem is allot of the old videos are from races running true offshore and the cool videos from back in that day had allot of Apaches dominating the big water

There are very few TRUE offshore races anymore that are covered with major video and commentary thus hard to find the great footage like we used to see There is still some recent cool stuff out there but you have to dig deep and usually does not have good commentary to go with it

BRING BACK OFFSHORE and BRING BACK RICH LUHRS

Nothing like back in the day Racing
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Originally Posted by ActiveThunder
Running on top usually makes the waves look small. Been on that great lake. We used to be out of Illinois!
Running with Pat makes the waves look small. I been out there with him in 6-8', 3-5', and 4-6 and all variations of sun and storm (call me the crazy canuck). When I come down for boating, we go boating. Go Active Thunder !
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