All three incidents happened with a 37 Talon. Nothing disastrous but it did wander. Nortech has never had anything break.

LOL! It looks like a Cessna.

A friend hit something at over 100 in his Superboat cat and lost the tie-bar on his # 4's but did not realize until trying a turn. At triple digits who knows what could happen? At the first sign of trouble, if not in a race or no one on your tail, you could cut both throttles and cat-glide to a stop...

No -- what the insurance company thinks is that -- if you're living up North, you're only boating SIX months out of the year! :D :D :D

Fountains are not known for their ride, not really a deep v.
You can run any Cigarette or Apache in 4 to 6s and not even know they are there.:party-smiley-004:

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why does that vid. say Apache Powerboat---is it not a SABRE "relative" ? ps water looks a bit big for a cat too ! ;)

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this vid. says "SABRE" but it's an "APACHE" ck. it out great vid. turn it up-volume-too !media.putfile.com/SABER---2006-SOTW-Poker-Run-60 :cool-smiley-011: hope u-like it !!!

truth of the matter, keep it safe no matter the hull design, since every bad event affects us all. The speeds at which many seem to seek can kill. Many more vee bottoms get into trouble bacause they are larger in numbers and owners are unaware of handling problems.

I have been in both designs and at speed, although a big cat can "feel very light", I still feel more secure than in a V.

Heck, 140 in Cat Astrophe feels like a drive to church on Sunday morning with Granpa at the wheel :)

Sorry Alec. :)

Paul, I can tell you that with the very limited drag my Black Hawk creates, you need plenty o room to get the boat slowed down. It takes a while to spill out the air and stick the hull back to the water.I always make it a point of telling V drivers new to poker runs to NEVER slow down quickly infront of a cat or they may have some new passengers they weren't counting on.