Fountain @ LOTO passengers injured in near rollover
09-07-2012, 08:20 AM
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Is this the same guy?!?! At 3:25 it sure looks like him...Read the message at the end of the video?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xPY...feature=g-vrec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xPY...feature=g-vrec
Last edited by pondrunner; 09-07-2012 at 08:25 AM.
09-07-2012, 08:31 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen
Teather, Vest ??????????????????????????????????????
Teather, Vest ??????????????????????????????????????
09-07-2012, 09:41 AM
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Is this the same guy?!?! At 3:25 it sure looks like him...Read the message at the end of the video?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xPY...feature=g-vrec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xPY...feature=g-vrec
Last edited by baditude; 09-07-2012 at 10:06 AM.
09-07-2012, 09:45 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen
Teather, Vest ??????????????????????????????????????
Teather, Vest ??????????????????????????????????????
This is the problem with lawyers. They interpret everything verbatim, as they read it not How it applies in the real world.
Last edited by low_psi; 09-07-2012 at 09:57 AM.
09-07-2012, 10:04 AM
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X-rated since you are so confident your interpretation of the law is the right one, can you please post some past cases that may prove your theory? Not damage to a dock, or a moored boat. But damaged caused by someone in a fairly large offshore boat bei g damaged by the wake of a larger boat while undepower.
09-07-2012, 10:25 AM
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I am at a loss to understand most of this conversation, but if you lose control of your boat for any reason other than mechanical failure or someone colliding with you—assuming that person is at fault—isn't the responsibility for your loss of control, well, yours?
Last time I checked, the throttles go in both directions.
Last time I checked, the throttles go in both directions.
Last edited by Matt Trulio; 09-07-2012 at 10:28 AM.
09-07-2012, 10:26 AM
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I wasn't assigning blame, it's just what I noticed the first time I saw the video. He appeared to be operating the sticks in a rather clumsy fashion.
First he had his hand upside down to the manner in which I and I'd guess most people would hold the throttles, he then switched back, and when he was on and off the throttle rapidly it looked like he was going the full range (idle to WFO) in a very jerky manner.
I've never driven a faster boat like his before but I've seen some of the vids where like this one of Avatar running wide open in the ocean, the thottleman maintains a much slower and narrower range sweeping motion with the throttle while letting off and reapplying the power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5Y9NipiVA
It was the first thing I noticed when I saw the video.
My boat is so heavy I've never been out of the water to have to work my sticks, after what I saw I picked up the fact that you should reduce and apply the thottle in a much less abrupt manner and not a long way from the range as to where it was prior to having to power down.
And, CONGRATS, on your new boat. I seem to remember a thread that you might have even been considering a cruiser earlier in the year.
A 38 Lightning with 575sc's has got to be a wicked cool ride indeed!!!
See ya,
Kelly
First he had his hand upside down to the manner in which I and I'd guess most people would hold the throttles, he then switched back, and when he was on and off the throttle rapidly it looked like he was going the full range (idle to WFO) in a very jerky manner.
I've never driven a faster boat like his before but I've seen some of the vids where like this one of Avatar running wide open in the ocean, the thottleman maintains a much slower and narrower range sweeping motion with the throttle while letting off and reapplying the power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5Y9NipiVA
It was the first thing I noticed when I saw the video.
My boat is so heavy I've never been out of the water to have to work my sticks, after what I saw I picked up the fact that you should reduce and apply the thottle in a much less abrupt manner and not a long way from the range as to where it was prior to having to power down.
And, CONGRATS, on your new boat. I seem to remember a thread that you might have even been considering a cruiser earlier in the year.
A 38 Lightning with 575sc's has got to be a wicked cool ride indeed!!!
See ya,
Kelly
09-07-2012, 10:31 AM
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Surely there must be other videos from that PR that would show angles that might include boats in front of this Fountain. From the limited view of the water and waves, it doesn't look like he hit a huge cruiser wake, just a vee wake at high speed
09-07-2012, 10:47 AM
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There was no cruiser wake..... No one ever said there was. Unfortunately a few guys felt it necessary to turn this thread into a "cruiser wake did it" thread. I am just as guilty as I have been arguing with them.....
