Last I checked this is America & a free country so we should never say "it shouldn't be sold" Infringement on are rights is already everywhere. Don't ask for more!!

Jay, it was not stray cat, it was the turbine boat, it will be made public shortly

Because we're Americans no-one can say that it shouldn't or can't be sold. The point I was making in my original post was that it would be nuts to sell this boat to the general public.

Picture this:

A rich guy goes to Statement and plunks down a-million-whatever for the boat. For him, its the perfect pen*s extention because now he is the big dog on the lake and everybody knows it. Besides having a less than admirable pen*s, he also lacks the talent to operate this kind of boat, but all that matters to him is that he now is king.

On his maden voyage, he packs the boat will his friends, all of which are top earners. They leave the dock and 20-minutes later the guy blows the boat over at 180. Everyone on board is killed.

The families of the passangers file a wrongfull death suit against everyone involved including Statement. In court, a mouthpiece with a nice suit says to Statement, "its your fault because you produced and sold this boat to a guy you should have known couldn't handle it".

After a long and drawn-out trial, the jusy agrees that if but for Statement building and selling this boat to this guy, none of this would never have happened and they (the families) win a judgement against Statement for a "portion" of the lost income that the families of the victims now live without. Considering that all of these guys made north of $1M per year, and they were all in their mid-40s. Equates to tens of millions of dollars.

I'm sure that Statement has excellent liability insurance, but to me, it just seems like a can of worms.

ANYWAY, ITS ALL A MOOT POINT SINCE THE CONSENSUS IS THAT THE BOAT WILL NOT RUN NEAR THAT SPEED AND THE ORIGINAL POST WAS BS.

I have been on the turbine several times and NEVER saw that speed. Mid 180's yes. Never the less its a GREAT boat

Oh, crap. My bad. Apologies.

Yeah, I believe that number. Spoke with Todd at length about the boat when he drove me to pick up my jeep.
Liking what he has planned for the boat. :whistle:

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1094/4...c07c29d7_b.jpg

So is the 207 # real?..

Jim Darr strikes again!!

Oops, didn't mean to imply that.
Just that I think that Todd has shown us what he can do with a boat. :faint2:

I believe they are capable of just about anything.
It's a symbiotic thing. :helmet:

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207 with 8 babes in the hot tub .

Impressive... But my Cigarette Top Gun will leave it in the dust. My GPS says so! :D :lolhit:

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