Crash at DS.
04-29-2013, 11:46 AM
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Also the DCB driver evidently did not know his boat would climb a rooster tail right? I don't know and didn't know this about cats.. Anyway , thanks for all your inputs. I will now step down from my soap box
04-29-2013, 11:51 AM
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I personally can't see how you can operate a boat at 160mph on a confined body of water without a resrticted course and be in control of your vessel. It is impossible to avoid a pleasure boater, fisherman, or inner tuber and still safely correct your course without risking yourself and your passengers. Its like rearending someone in a car, you are always at fault for not having your vehicle under control.
Injury or not I'm sure the lawyers will be out.
Injury or not I'm sure the lawyers will be out.
04-29-2013, 11:52 AM
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I personally can't see how you can operate a boat at 160mph on a confined body of water without a resrticted course and be in control of your vessel. It is impossible to avoid a pleasure boater, fisherman, or inner tuber and still safely correct your course without risking yourself and your passengers. Its like rearending someone in a car, you are always at fault for not having your vehicle under control.
Leaving the racing to the guys on the course. Wanna race? Join em!
Everytime I log on oso I lose more and more interest in poker runs.
04-29-2013, 12:02 PM
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Poker Runs are doomed from all angles....
1. Public won't get it that it isn't a race, someone will just point out the deaths, accidents, reported top speeds
2. Environmentalists will scream about the carbon output (fuel burn) and the damage it could do to the creatures that lurk below the surface
3. Insurance companies are going to be scarce or simply not affordable
4. Poker Run Events will price themselves out of the business with extra fees, higher prices while giving less of an experience to the participant
5. Sponsors will pull back support due to potential liability
This in turn will doom the dealers/manufacturers. Why buy a performance boat if there is nowhere to run it? I can remember big poker runs in the past that would have 5-10 brand new boats in attendance every year (usually with matching tow rigs).
Not sure how this can be fixed......while still maintaining the fun aspect.
1. Public won't get it that it isn't a race, someone will just point out the deaths, accidents, reported top speeds
2. Environmentalists will scream about the carbon output (fuel burn) and the damage it could do to the creatures that lurk below the surface
3. Insurance companies are going to be scarce or simply not affordable
4. Poker Run Events will price themselves out of the business with extra fees, higher prices while giving less of an experience to the participant
5. Sponsors will pull back support due to potential liability
This in turn will doom the dealers/manufacturers. Why buy a performance boat if there is nowhere to run it? I can remember big poker runs in the past that would have 5-10 brand new boats in attendance every year (usually with matching tow rigs).
Not sure how this can be fixed......while still maintaining the fun aspect.
04-29-2013, 12:02 PM
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you are correct sir. Adreneline is a culpret of many things.. I wanted to add the whole thing to the discution because the title say's "crash at DS"
Not just about the high speed crash. There were others. I heard a father ran over his daugter because she fell off the bow of the boat. I heard she was killed. I am so sorry for the lost to there family.,. But being on the front of a moving boat is something that you just don't do . Right . Some people do not know these things
Not just about the high speed crash. There were others. I heard a father ran over his daugter because she fell off the bow of the boat. I heard she was killed. I am so sorry for the lost to there family.,. But being on the front of a moving boat is something that you just don't do . Right . Some people do not know these things
I know I will get flogged for this but I don't see a reason to not have a licencing program for boats. Just the ****ing basics like a motorcycle endorsement. And as you graduate to a more capable machine be certified to handle it. Kinda like flight ratings. Just cause I can fly a Mooney does not mean I can hop in a Lear and fly it...
04-29-2013, 12:10 PM
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There is so much dumb **** I see every season. 15 people on a 20' bowrider with girls dancing and hanging off the bow while plowing through a no wake zone with boats all around, good example...
I know I will get flogged for this but I don't see a reason to not have a licencing program for boats. Just the ****ing basics like a motorcycle endorsement. And as you graduate to a more capable machine be certified to handle it. Kinda like flight ratings. Just cause I can fly a Mooney does not mean I can hop in a Lear and fly it...
I know I will get flogged for this but I don't see a reason to not have a licencing program for boats. Just the ****ing basics like a motorcycle endorsement. And as you graduate to a more capable machine be certified to handle it. Kinda like flight ratings. Just cause I can fly a Mooney does not mean I can hop in a Lear and fly it...
04-29-2013, 12:13 PM
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I personally can't see how you can operate a boat at 160mph on a confined body of water without a resrticted course and be in control of your vessel. It is impossible to avoid a pleasure boater, fisherman, or inner tuber and still safely correct your course without risking yourself and your passengers. Its like rearending someone in a car, you are always at fault for not having your vehicle under control.
Injury or not I'm sure the lawyers will be out.
Injury or not I'm sure the lawyers will be out.
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04-29-2013, 12:20 PM
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Not sure what you are trying to say but, Biloxi was not an OPA event. Also the OPA doesn't even have a 150mph class. It is restricted to 135mph for safety.
04-29-2013, 12:30 PM
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Thanks. I corrected it to SBI. What I meant is you have more boats running faster at a poker run, than we see in an actual sanctioned closed course race. Something backward there.
04-29-2013, 12:32 PM
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