fixx
 

if you look close looks like the starboard tab was dragging the water already,you can hear the engines rev in the video so betwen the tab being draged and the on off theottle may do it..i know i had a bag of stuff between my seats in my donzi,the bag was heavy enough to put the starboard tab all the way in the water and the port side of the boat almost went under when i went to plane off and then relised that the tab was all the way down and i raised it and the boat flattened out..

Twin engined boat. No one got injured, looks like the starboard tab was way down, he approached some wake and it could have upset the boat with too much tab on the starboard side. The boat wasn't turning hard to cause rollover. This was in 2009, obviously someone no more about it by now what really happened .

From 09 thread

great info ! thanks!

that boat hit a manatee,that caused it to roll over

If you look closely at how high the stern of that boat was riding - probably due to the large diameter props which can cause excessive stern lift - what the driver said makes perfect sense. It would have been bad enough on a straight V-bottom. Add steps to the equation and you have a real issue. It's truly amazing that nobody got hurt and the boat sustained so little damage.

I once tried an early Spinelli 4 blade prop on my boat and it had so much stern lift that going into a mild turn at only 45 MPH, I thought the stern was going to paddle wheel itself around on me. That ended the prop test.

Nah, another cruiser wake.

Prop diameter
 

I think the stern was riding too high. Probably caused by too large a diameter prop. :lolhit:

(now i'll go watch the video to confirm my original theory)

the roll today
 

Now ,looking back and seeing the video 100s of times, The feeling of the roll was like catching an edge snow skiing or snow boarding. we were wider in the turn, crc had all ready gone threw. we went wider to carry more speed. as we hit the wakes of the other boats ,which get larger as they move away from the center of the coarse,more so in the turns,my thottle man backed off to keep the boat low in the stern so boat would not spin out. We were all ready high due to large diameter props and high x so traction, hookup was compromised.When we hit the wakes, the boat layed down instead of staying settled in the rear. So as we were turning left, the stern wanted to go straight causing the roll. speed was about 80. my thottle man, also my best friend just passed of cancer last year. funny thing is, he would of died earlier if we didnt crash. A little while after the crash he still didnt feel well ,thought he screwed up his neck from the crash. he went to the doctors and came out with brain cancer which they were able to treat for several years. if there wasnt a crash, he wouldnt have gone to doctor and would have died that year. he was the first person to come out of the boat in the front. I came out second when to boat was up side down.

fixx
 

you guys were real lucky those props did not get you..