Turbine Apache Update: First Run a Success
04-04-2013, 03:37 PM
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Turbine Apache Update: First Run a Success
An update from the first test session, http://speedonthewater.com/boat-rest...a-success.html.
Congratulations to a safe and successful run today to everyone at AMF.
Sorry, guys, no running shots just yet.
Congratulations to a safe and successful run today to everyone at AMF.
Sorry, guys, no running shots just yet.
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04-04-2013, 04:33 PM
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Nice job AMF. When on another thread it takes three years to get a boat. It's nice to see a group able to put a plan together, execute a plan, and reach their goal.
04-04-2013, 09:05 PM
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04-04-2013, 09:10 PM
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Thanks for understanding.
Hope to have an update on this story tomorrow.
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04-04-2013, 09:18 PM
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Rain definitely stings in an open cockpit boat at anything above 30 mph, but I don't think that's what kept them from going back out. As Begovich said in the story, they are taking "baby steps" with this one because it's so unusual. A distraction like rain, even light rain, is still a distraction. Better to wait and run another day (although unfortunately there is rain in the forecast tomorrow).
That said, on pure rough-water ability, like you I'm pretty confident that a 47' Apache could crush anything Lake Worth Lagoon threw its way without so much as a wiggle.
04-05-2013, 07:12 AM
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I think what Scott Begovich was referring to was the rain that came in today—at least that's what I saw from a quick review of the weather in the area where they ran the boat.
Rain definitely stings in an open cockpit boat at anything above 30 mph, but I don't think that's what kept them from going back out. As Begovich said in the story, they are taking "baby steps" with this one because it's so unusual. A distraction like rain, even light rain, is still a distraction. Better to wait and run another day (although unfortunately there is rain in the forecast tomorrow).
That said, on pure rough-water ability, like you I'm pretty confident that a 47' Apache could crush anything Lake Worth Lagoon threw its way without so much as a wiggle.
Rain definitely stings in an open cockpit boat at anything above 30 mph, but I don't think that's what kept them from going back out. As Begovich said in the story, they are taking "baby steps" with this one because it's so unusual. A distraction like rain, even light rain, is still a distraction. Better to wait and run another day (although unfortunately there is rain in the forecast tomorrow).
That said, on pure rough-water ability, like you I'm pretty confident that a 47' Apache could crush anything Lake Worth Lagoon threw its way without so much as a wiggle.
04-05-2013, 03:13 PM
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Quick update: I spoke with Scott Begovich this morning and the weather did not cooperate today. They are on, weather allowing, for next Monday.
