Long Island Boating accident tonight:2 dead
10-05-2009, 09:12 PM
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People need to wake up, all this does is give us powerboaters a bad name, pretty soon there wil be no need to have a high performance boat on our water ways, we can't get on plane at such low speeds, the party barges will be passing us...Let us just hope and pray that the others will pull through and tell the whole story, but 150mph in the middle of the night is nuts...
10-05-2009, 09:26 PM
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Does some one know the top speed of this boat so that we can put it to rest. I doubt it went 100 never mind 150!
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10-05-2009, 09:27 PM
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10-05-2009, 09:32 PM
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Hard to say what happened in this one. But the owner of Hustler that sold him the boat, said it was a diesel model with a top end in the 60's. I think the 150 mph figure was a misprint or error in the news. He sounded like a pretty responsible guy, so who knows? Accidents actually really happen.
10-05-2009, 09:54 PM
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Calling Canni a "meticulous and careful" boater, Logiudice said he was stunned by the accident and couldn't understand how it could happen.
"I can't get my hands around it," Logiudice said. "They've gone that way a hundred times. He knew the area and he knew the boat."
10-05-2009, 10:03 PM
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My theory is the same, he had a seizure, slumped on the throttle and rammed the marsh. It's just a theory, I'm gonna give the guy the benefit of the doubt until the Popo's findings, especially given the quote from Hustler. The are a few survivors but who knows if they were paying attention to say what happened. Just plain suxs :-(
10-05-2009, 10:37 PM
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Hard to say what happened in this one. But the owner of Hustler that sold him the boat, said it was a diesel model with a top end in the 60's. I think the 150 mph figure was a misprint or error in the news. He sounded like a pretty responsible guy, so who knows? Accidents actually really happen.
Edit, quoted from article
"Frohnhoefer said the speedboat that crashed was built for racing.
Hustler, the Calverton, N.Y.-based company that built the boat, has a model capable of reaching speeds over 150 mph."
10-05-2009, 10:43 PM
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I grew up boating in that exact area , that marsh was part of what we called "the four corners". Had a few nieghbors who ran high and dry in that area in a fog, didnt hit the marsh, but at a regular high tide, you get close before you hit the mud. One of the problems over there was that there was a decent sized gap betwen the red buoy before the south side of the marsh and the next red buoy to the north side of the marsh, and there was no buoy in front of the marsh. They may have dropped another one in since last time I was in that area several years ago, but I remember having marked on a chart to stay left towards the green bouys when coming home at night.
if it wasnt a health failure, mechanical failure and alchohol wasnt involved, then I subscribe to my friends theory that he was probably racing home trying to beat the sun going down, misread the buoys and marshes (there are two marshes there with a cut between them that you can head through at high tide and avoid a 5 mph zone), turned to soon, didnt realize it till it was too late and went up on the marsh.
if it wasnt a health failure, mechanical failure and alchohol wasnt involved, then I subscribe to my friends theory that he was probably racing home trying to beat the sun going down, misread the buoys and marshes (there are two marshes there with a cut between them that you can head through at high tide and avoid a 5 mph zone), turned to soon, didnt realize it till it was too late and went up on the marsh.
10-05-2009, 11:47 PM
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I grew up boating in that exact area , that marsh was part of what we called "the four corners". Had a few neighbors who ran high and dry in that area in a fog, didn't hit the marsh, but at a regular high tide, you get close before you hit the mud. One of the problems over there was that there was a decent sized gap between the red buoy before the south side of the marsh and the next red buoy to the north side of the marsh, and there was no buoy in front of the marsh. They may have dropped another one in since last time I was in that area several years ago, but I remember having marked on a chart to stay left towards the green buoys when coming home at night.
if it wasn't a health failure, mechanical failure and alcohol wasn't involved, then I subscribe to my friends theory that he was probably racing home trying to beat the sun going down, misread the buoys and marshes (there are two marshes there with a cut between them that you can head through at high tide and avoid a 5 mph zone), turned to soon, didn't realize it till it was too late and went up on the marsh.
if it wasn't a health failure, mechanical failure and alcohol wasn't involved, then I subscribe to my friends theory that he was probably racing home trying to beat the sun going down, misread the buoys and marshes (there are two marshes there with a cut between them that you can head through at high tide and avoid a 5 mph zone), turned to soon, didn't realize it till it was too late and went up on the marsh.
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