A rogue wave was likely the cause of the Carlos 'N' Charlies rollover in Corpus Christi in 2002 and the fatal accident of Airborne Marine in Biloxi.

The trim pumps for no.6's are very fast. If you hit the wrong button on the throttle or accidently put pressure on the button, that drive could be up in 4 seconds. It happens.
Batgirl was the one that pointed this out and people were quick to attack her statement when this truthfully could have been a contributing factor.

I agree.After seeing the position of the drives as they put the boat on the trailer,it makes you wonder if he had any work done on the boat recentlY (TRIM PUMPS) that might have been wired incorectly.Reversing the wires so up is down and down is up.Or in the heat of catching up to the other boats did he mistakenly trim the port side up,instaed of down.I speak from experience because i have done the same thing.Sad S ad Sad.

Ive had trim buttons stick on several occassions too!

I thought the same thing when i saw the boat on the trailer with the port drive way up.:eek::eek:

Ya know, alot of you guys are doing alot of speculating of what could of, or what might of happened. I really don't know, so I won't say anything about it. Could the trim pump have shorted out when submerged??? It could have. Did the rescue team raise the drive to get the boat on the trailer??? They may have. Did someone try raising the drives when the boat was pulled to the shoreline, so as not to brake one of them??? and maybe the other one would'nt come up for a mechanical reason??? Who knows, all we know is that it was a terrible tragedy that took the life of someone that we all cared a great deal about, and someone that had a family that loved him very, very much. And for respect toward his friends and family, let's keep all the negative comments to ourselves. I'm sure that's the way Kevin would want it to be left.

Frank

Easy on the trim ideas guys. I helped out with a 32 Skater that sunk years ago. After being pulled from the water and getting new batteries, as soon as we turned the batteries on the trim pumps were running unswitched. The only way to stop them was to shut the power off.

Maybe you overlooked post #5.That coupled with the photos i saw of the boat running and one other person who witnessed and made the same observation along with the photo of the boat being pulled out at the ramp would lead you to believe there was a trimming issue.No disrespect to kevin-just trying to point out some thing that needs to be looked at closer.Have you ever forgot to put a drain plug in or put the props on the right side or forgot to open your valves that supply water to the sea strainers.I have and you learn from those mistakes.S__t happens .

I agree with 10X. WTF!!! A man is dead. this is a hobby and sport to all of us on this dumb website. Let the pro's figure out what happened and until then leave the speculating to the stock trading of a barrel of oil. It is sad and thats all that need be said. and even if the reports were to come back as driver error lets all respect that and learn from a tragic mistake and not beat it into the ground.

I agree and have flipped a few myself just was not my time. I will say this I know for a fact you cant run a Skater with that much trim in one side,Kevin would have felt the problem way before the crash. The pressures and force put on the pump bypasses could have caused the same thing.I have blown ram o-rings in rough water and the drive would come up without positive trim.
RIP MY SKATER BRO !!!!