CMG

Just to shoow how fast a boat can come apart

drypipetiger

I've heard horror stories from other boaters regarding tug boat wakes... Tug boats draft alot of water and even though arent moving fast are pushing water like a huge plow.

Mentalpause

They do not come out on this board. I talked to them yesterday. From what they have received so far, they are limited to comment anyway. They are hearing that the boat will not be brought up. If it is, they can look at the remains and try to determine what happened. Without that, any comments would just be speculative.

Knot 4 Me

Only the driver and any close eyewitnesses can give the true events of what happened. Anything is possible, but I will say I've been in two Dominators and one Dominator SS that all have caught some serious hang time off cruiser wakes. If the boats are set up properly ahead of time (in terms of tab and drive settings) and fly flat, these boats won't shutter, creak, groan or moan upon landing. If you stuff, tail-land, come down on the side, hook and roll, etc. any brand of boat and you introduce the potential for a catastrophic failure. Fortunately no one was injured.

Canada Jeff

VERY WELL SAID! It took me a good 100 hours to really learn my hulls capabilties! Drive and tab settings in different water to really run as fast as I could. Took some bad landings (not many) to feel how the hull reacts, and flies!

Mentalpause

I remember one of those landing at the rally a few years back.

We have all had a few of those before, key is to learn from them.

Canada Jeff

Agreed Mental, if it happens and you aren't sure why, then I would be a scared passenger.

Reckless32

By virtue of the operating environment powerboaters run in, you will no doubt have the opportunity to encounter another....

CAP071

After reading this, I'm just glad no one was killed