Turbojack

In watching one of the videos after the event you can see one of the guys walk up and it looks like he is turning the engines off.

bats05

regardless of what caused it..... lets all be thankful they all can enjoy another day at the lake..

88242LS

I noticed that also, glad he still had a clear ind to do so, wishing all a speedy recovery!

bert4332

+1

Need-the-Speed

In reality....depending on the drive posistion ...a stepped bottom has a much greater chance of a blow out -especially- if the operater tucked the drives mistakingly thinking it would clear up the chine walk which most people should know will not. Huge difference from a stepped hull to a straight. To me....IMO........the operater in this video was a little aggressive on the sticks. At least in my experience backing off the throttle that hard during a chine walk only makes the problem worse. A race boat is set up VERY differently than a normal production "poker run" boat....i.e weight, center of gravity...etc. etc. That throttle action might work great in a Phantom but wont even come close in a Lightning. Also, depending on water conditions, you take the momentum out of the boat you could get a bow steer issue which could result in a nasty hook...which may have happened in this video. I've never driven a 38. But I have decent seat time in a couple of 29's and a 42.

Considering none of these people were wearing proper PFDs (LIFELINE) they should all be VERY thankful to be alive. One of my best friends got ejected and died in the same exact situation.

*****PLEASE EVERYBODY WEAR LIFE JACKETS******

OCCJoe

I'm not going to get into the cruiser wake controversy because I've never had to deal with them and to me it looks like an average size boat wake or maybe just the perfect storm of a couple of wakes that dumped them, but I did find these video's that show just how much trouble the cruiser wakes can be on our boats .
The people on the boat are having a good time with the trouble they cause .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVPU...hannel&list=UL .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ktgn...hannel&list=UL

obnoxus

In my opinion ,,,,yes,,,,,,although I dont know drive position

But they dont like when you chop throttles like that !!!!!

Fenderjack

Willing to bet it will make Tosh.


Whens this joker gona post in the thread?


John jr

the deep

A picture is worth a thousand words....

rchuntlsl

No confusion. we were on the Poker Run on Friday. I was just trying to get people that do not boat at LOTO an idea of how rough it gets there by showing the video from Sat.