I have owned many boats...I must say that I will never own another deep V...there rough beat you to death, a cat will glide right over the chop, and yes I too feel much safer in a cat doing 120mph than in a deep V doing 80. Yes my insurance went from 900 a year to 5200 a year...but that is what you get living in south Louisiana..

The insurance Co. seem to thing if you live further north, your safer, when all it really is are the hurricanes and boating offshore. I am sure that some little paper azz-hole did a study and came up with these findings Its amazing what our Gov. lets insurnce co. get away with.

I have lost an engine at least three times at 140+ (35 Motion) Lost a transmission at same speeds twice (MTI). Lost a prop at 110 (MTI). Each time it was completely uneventful. First noticed because we are slowing down. I think the type of cat hull makes the difference. I have also blown at least 8 outboard engines on smaller twin cats 25-30' (Warlock & Motion) again no big deal. Blown at least 6 lower units on o/b cats again nothing but slowing down. So can not prove it by me.

I have never been on a fast Cat yet but wonder how fast you slow down . I know when I cut the power on my V hull the boat slows very quickly . Whats it like at 100 plus ? In case of an emergency .

Paul

UHHHHHHHHHH You just need to pull back a bit quicker!!!

I would love to see you doing 120 safely in water like this. Because I know Jerry can do 80 safely in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6CcRZ37vNs

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! AGREED

I had a 32' Fountain...don't go offshore much, but when I did in 4 to 6' seas...it beat the **** out of everyone, slow or fast and didn't help much of the rigging out. Still I usually run rivers, the only chop I have are the boats that I overtake...

That wasnt my experience. One of the times that a drive broke we were part way through a soft turn and it was eventful. My driver was concerned about overcompensating with a correction so let it drift.

Take a look at the Ft. Lauderdale Race Pics!

I've only had mine for a year but did have one of the kill switches get inadvertently hit by a passenger and shutdown one motor while running at around 100 or so.

I didn't feel much of anything except for the boat starting to slow down and checking the gauges to see what happend...

For some reason each engine has it's own kill switch so you have to tie them together to shut both off at the same time.

That will be rectified once we get finished with the painting and put the motors back in..