With all the recent talk about the cause of the LOTO Fountain accident, and the ensuing debate of spinouts in stepped vs non-stepped hulls, it made me wonder: was the cause of the My Way spinout a few months back because it was a 1) stepped hull, 2) Tomlinson realized he was going the wrong way and began a turn, 3) while pulling back on the throttles during the turn? It sounds to me like all of those things together might be what happened, and the forward momemtum of the heavier aft portion of the boat, coupled with the shift in direction, and change in the wetted surface, initiated the spin. Thoughts?

plain&simple,going to fast for water conditions.

all speed.

Go back in time and think about what speeds people were running Vs. today. Step bottoms have increased speed and higher power engines are more readily available.

In the 80's the big dog was maybe the 575? and no one had them, it was pretty much a boat show or magazine boat.... and if they did have them they were probably in a big straight bottom 38 footer. later we got the 470 horse 500 engines and that was a popular choice

Fast forward to today.... The smallest Mercury racing engine is the 525. They run up to 1350 and basically every boat is step bottom. Speeds are not faster by 10 MPH but more like 30 or more MPH on the low side.

Heck... the same thing goes for repower. It's not uncommon to see a 500 in a 22 Donzi and it's getting more common to see much bigger power than that. In a boat that was designed around a 330 horse 454. That's just one example of what is out there in general.

We all want to go fast... but we might have lost some of the balance along the way

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...29334322_n.jpg

Wow, sad to see it like that. What a bummer.

if the guy in the fountain would have put the throttles back into it and if the wheel was straight he could have kept the boat going straight... he panicked and thats what caused the spin out..he came off the wave and the boat landed on a angle and he did not even try to throttle through it and thats when the momentum took over.... i have had my little donzi on its side with the prop sticking sideways almost out of the water,,i nailed it and the boat layed flat and then i came to a stop and threw a water bottle at the guy on the wave runner that cut me off..

Seat time!! its all in the seat time,,i see bozo's all the time where i boat and ALL of the ones that are cutting people off of having accidents are new boaters which dont belong on the water in the first place..