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Nice little spin out in a turbined boat!!! Watch those turns. :rolleyes:
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=OL50_spin |
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Anyone know if the outdrives survived it? That looks like the turbine boat.
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Originally Posted by LaughingCat
Anyone know if the outdrives survived it? That looks like the turbine boat.
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:eek: :eek: wow
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Doesn't look like he was trying to turn ... looks like the boat just got out of shape, rolled on it's side and then hooked
I didn't see first hand, but it looks like what was described when Barbarino (sp) hooked his boat in the SCOPE poker run a few years back G |
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Somebody got REAL lucky....and didn't get hurt
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you can see the first turn buoy a few secs before he spun...
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The link was already posted in another thread, but I watched it for a 5th time anyway. :D
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pretty appropriate considering the situation that happened :(
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That was the TEAM AMF 51' Turbine outerlimits running in the Cape Cod race in June. As you can see, it doesnt take much to spin out. They were not in a turn. If you were unsuspecting passengers, you could have easily been ejected from the boat. a little bow steer and hooked. Thats all it takes at those speeds.
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Bruce, the was right at the pinnacle of the turn. the video is deceiving.
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now Scott...why do you have to go and throw big words at me. (Pinnacle) :D ....
http://www.answers.com/topic/pinnacle You would know better than me .......you were in the boat |
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From the driver. (Hope you don't mind Scott)
Originally Posted by ScottB
As the driver, of the OL, I can tell you that was lap 4 of the Cape Cod race and it doesn't look it but it was about 4-5ft and we went into the turn too hot.
We were running 75-80 the whole race in the turns and went in around 90 and it happened but not without warning. I know it was coming. When we slipped off the top of the first wave, we were gone. I have been racing step hulls for 4 years and this was my first spin. We tested and tested and added weight to compensate for the lost Sterlings and will continue to do so. We have been running that boat props in, props out, with extention boxes, without, and fine tuning it. In testing without safety patrols and copters we tend to take it easier. We talked about taking it up a knotch during the race and we did and it bit us. Thankfully we were not hurt, but gained valuable knowledge |
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No problem
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Originally Posted by ScottB
Bruce, the was right at the pinnacle of the turn. the video is deceiving.
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Also ... granted, I don't know the relationship of the driver and throttleman, but, without a LOT of hours together in a boat, the precision timing needed between throttle and steering input is lost .... not a good thing at speed.
Ask Phil or Neal ;) G |
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:eek:
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Also ... granted, I don't know the relationship of the driver and throttleman, |
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:evilb:
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At that race the water was REAL nasty. You can not tell from the video at all. When that happened my boat was actually sinking. I was a little ways between truns 2 and 3. That turn was the only left turn on the race course and it was not a 90 degree on so you could go through fairly fast.
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