YES I agree that the silver DCB 41 on the right took off and cut off the boats on the left, at those speeds everything happened so quick, and with a boat coming the other direction, the 35 dcb that crashed was ACTUALLY on a GOOD line, especially considering there were other boats to his PORT side that needed room to pass the boat coming the other direction!

THE 41 DCB (boat on the right) had PLENTY of room to take that left hand corner WIDE. There was no reason for the Silver 41 dcb to change coarse like that.

I agree with this perspective of the crash. I think it is scary that there are so many different ones than mine. Not that mine is necssarily right.

I think everyone should learn from bad things that happen. That is the way we prevent things from happening in the future. The message I get is that I can't depend on other captains to necessarily pilot their boats according to what "I THINK" is the right line because the "RIGHT LINE" is very subjective and can go bad with our competitive nature. As Gary pointed out, this would not have happened if everyone would have listened to Bob's instructions.

No one got hurt, thank God for this. Let's learn from what happened.

Can anyone confirm the driver and passenger?
I heard the owner-Bo was driving
and yesterday that someone was needing shoulder and knee surgery?

From people involved we know two things happened that violated the poker run rules.

1. The boat should have kept right of the center line going into the curve.
2. A number of boats jumped the start prior to the curve.

What are you talking about? That was a great RACING move.

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I was viewing the aerial video from the helicopter. Looks like everyone held their line except the person driving the larger DCB on the outside right. Looks like he pretty much cut every body off. The rest of the boats are going in a straight line heading towards the center of the lake, and the larger DCB punches it and turns left right in front of everyone.

Just curious, who was driving the larger DCB?

While it did violate the instructions given at the drivers' meeting, doesn't the boat to starboard have the right of way? I thought the 35 DCB should have just chopped the throttles and given up the right of way, as should the boats behind him. Nevertheless, some serious douchebaggery going on by the Dave's Custom Buoy drivers.

True, when two vessels come from different directions, but all of these boats were going in the same direction, so I don't think it apply's when someone just decides to cut over in front of multiple vessels.. But I'm not a maritime expert so what the heck do I know:)

Nevermind......maybe it was one of these two guys.....you know, the one holding his finger up? :lolhit::lolhit: