Now that's going too far....

Look, I don't care what you do. I truly don't care if you let your 2-year-old child ride on your bow while you're jumping wakes. I don't care if you kill everyone in your family and all your friends including all the babies and old folks. I just don't want you causing harm to me.

Secondarily, I think this kind of stuff hurts boating in general- it makes performance boaters look as bad to "regular boaters" as the jet-ski children do to us. The next time they want to ban the big, loud boats from the little lakes because someone got hurt or Mr. Lanyardless runs his fiberglass missile into someone's lake home, tell your tales of woe elsewhere. And, I don't think you're helping with the rising costs of insurance.

As I've looked though this thread, I notice a common theme. The fervent supporters of this kind of stuff are primarily flatlands boaters. I'm sorry you don't have waves to jump. You can buy trailers and go to real waves. They are "offshore" boats, after all. Wake jumping is about as lame as a 10-year-old jumping his BMX bike off of a 2x10 propped up on a milk crate. Go do the real thing just once and you can see why guys who boat in the oceans or the Great Lakes are giggling at you.

I have a vo-tech school just down the road from me. Every morning at 7AM I get to see a whole gaggle of 16 and 17 year-old kids in their jacked-up Mustangs exercising their free will and then again at 2, heading the other way. I'm waiting for them to break out the 2x10's and milk crates any day now.

I'm not seeing much difference between the vid in your post and the one that started this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJvwHhkPqg8.

Maybe a few feet but mostly a difference in noise.

Please dont let this be a real post. Im going to forgive you on this one and call it a drunken post! Cheers buddy!

Chris >>>>>
I'm not seeing much difference between the vid in your post and the one that started this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJvwHhkPqg8.
Maybe a few feet but mostly a difference in noise

They are pretty much the same and equally stupid as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy air time as well as the next crazy boater, BUT in opern waters away from anybody else.
My teenage show off days are over. I have seen boat take a hard turn with snapped steering, and broken part. NO THANKS. Keep your distance.

More of a rant.

I do care that people are safe and I really wouldn't want anyone hurting anyone else. After 35+ years of performance motorsports, I've seen lots of bad things happen and I've lost a few friends. Ignorance is the real problem here. You have way too may people who have no idea what bad things can happen and a small slice that do but just don't care. I hear that everyone knew what was going on and that it was OK with them. Then I hear that one of the women was loaded. That's also a kid sitting in the bottom corner of the cockpit, regardless of what the original poster claims. Are these people really consenting with the fulll knowledge of what might happen?

If two guys want to go out alone into wide-open waters and do this, I have no objection. You want to run fast in big waves? That's what the boats are made for. I've landed flat inside 10' deep canyons and stuffed hard, completely swamping the boat- but it was me and a throttle man and that's what we signed up for. When you start doing it with booze and kids on these little ponds is where you lose me.

I would say it's pretty safe to say that the majority of members of this site were at one time in there lives those kids in the jacked-up mustangs and jumping milk crates . I know I was and Its probally why we are here now.The only difference is now we can afford expensive boats.

I remember my first beer too. But I stopped puking on my girlfriend's shoes decades ago.

If you watch the video for the first time, it looks like the Fountain jumps the cruisers wake and scares the crap out of those on board the cruiser. If they were strangers, and that was the case then I would say the Fountain driver is an a-hole for doing that. Of course after reading the thread and hearing what really happened, it's really not that big of a deal. They were all willing participants, and even if it's not the safest thing to do, it's also not the worst. They were just having fun and it looks a lot closer than it was.

Had I known this thread would have taken on a life of it's own I probably wouldn't have ever started it.

Lighten up everybody and have some fun.

BTW, Stecz is a homo.............

Satisfied attended Mrs. Puffs School of Boating in Bikini Bottom so he is pretty skilled in those regards.

Livewire please change your avatar as you are too close to the bridge, shore & the boat taking the pic.

See you midwest guys at Fuel in Jan.