Used to do similar very often there as well but the water patrol were dicks and way more 30 mph idiots.

Used to slalom ski by the bridge at Alum to get good water and would have tubers cut in front of us all the time. All while EVERYONE in the boat was looking backwards and zig zagging all over the damn lake.

is 110mph illegal on this lake? as stated before speed alone does not kill. I drive down 95 in south florida every day its the people driving 40 in a 65 that damn near kill you not the ones doing 90.

I'm betting on mechanical failure,

Looked like a hook and if so............., lots of mechanical gremlins/failures to start/cause one of those.

Here's what a chunk of pressure treated 4' X 4" does at 95 mph.
Consider too that it would float at or just bellow the surface of the water and no way you'd ever see it. Small inland lake in Ohio (Buckeye), very early fall, just after they re-raise the water level from the winter. That's when all the locals repair their docks.
Their scrap sitting on ice or dry bottom becomes a danger to navigation at normal water level.
Me in the front bucket and my buddy in back. Both in race vests.
So who would you think is claimed as more dangerous? A 95 mph 19' boat or a 110 mph 35' boat??
How bout a 30 mph bow rider with the kids in the bow after that locks the prop up????

BTW, that surgically removed one blade and left a hole in the hub where it use to be. Could hold a 4 X 4 up to the damage and it matched exactly! Broke every bolt boss (3/8") in the mid section! Look close at the drive shaft where it goes in the mid and also at the piece of mid still bolted to the back of the gear case.
Had 2 hrs on the new boat from just before the accident. This is why you ALWAYS wear a race vest in a fast boat!

Saw a Bravo 1, looked just like that after hitting a submerged log.

That'd be ugly. When I had my cruiser out on Lake Erie one time I saw something bobbing in the water and could tell by how slow it moved it was very heavy and submerged, looked like the top of a bowling ball. This was in the middle of one of the main (busy as hell) channels between the islands.
Was a telephone pole (full length!) floating vertically.
Wonder if you'd see that in your 30 mph boat? Or 10 mph at night?
I roped it and drug it to the beach.


BTW, new accident last weekend in the Hudson River. 19' open bow impacted a concrete embankment of some kind. 4:30 A.M.
Killed four.

EXACTLY!!!!

The agenda and scenario here is crystal clear. Bunch of tree huggers that have no clue about high performance boats (and don't like them because of the noise and/or speed) complaining about a guy "terrorizing the lake"...Gimmie a break.