This was Sarasota poker run 09 I think. at 1:40 sec the green flag goes up to start the run. We pull way out in front of the whole pack of boats, when we let off you can see the line of boats in the background behind us. Keep in mind the boats in the background were the fastest boats in the world, canopy race boats with turbines, ect. It was so rough that of the 70 boats that started there were only 5 boats that made it to the second card stop. The waves at the start in the video were 2-3' sharp wind chop and on the way to the second card stop we ended up in 3-4' with occasional 5'. The start of that poker run was about the perfect size for the 46, the waves were right at the point that we could run wide open but if they had been one inch bigger we would have had to slow down. Which makes it to where no matter how fast the smaller boats were they could not run with us. We ran right at 120 mph at the start of this video then up to 142 mph at the end. This gives you a real idea on wave size compared to oso wave size. All over the forums people were talking about how there were 8-10' waves on that run. They were 2-3' . The noaa bouys were showing 8-10 but the bouys were on the outside and we were in the bay.


http://youtu.be/pt5jjNXMILI

A few days before we were going to attempt the new York city to Bermuda 800 mile run we wanted to see how the boat would handle with 650 gallons of fuel and all the safety gear so we would know what size of waves we could safely run in before we tried 600 miles from shore.

This was real big water. You can see from the camera on the back that when we are down in a trough the buildings in the background disappear, that camera was around 3' above the water so those waves were probably true 4'. When we run through the wave and loose the gopro's the waves were around 3-5 and the one we went through was probably 6-8, we were running 60 mph at that point. Notice the angle of the boat when we punched through the wave, we did not stuff the nose down into it, the nose was aimed up and the wave was still higher then the nose to where we went through it with 2' of wave above the nose. The noaa report for that day was 6-8 near shore with occasional 10-12. We did not encounter any that big probably from not running far enough out.

http://youtu.be/HVpWbH6i7lU

To be honest the only boat I really want next is a 41 apache and it was the hands down best ride I ever been on in any boat period can't beat that

Have you ever seen perfect storm? It was like that but worse.

Same here. I slowed down after I rolled it.

08, dave and if I remember correctly I was talked into the backseat !!!!!!!!!!!! the green beast ate the rough stuff up with ease. that was I nice sunday cruise with you and Ed, thanks for the ride. second most memorable thing that day was Danny Crank running the shiiiiit out of the 32 skater.

Probably Key West worlds. 1999. Turning into the wall for the first time. Watching randy go buy me and thinking there is no way he just went by me. It was huge.

I rode out 2 Hurricanes in our sailboat. The boat was 65 ft long. It would try and surf down the wave and to make it up the next side you would have to burry the throttles. It was just like the perfect storm.

I don't think that is after the 2012 Shootout. Maybe 2011 or 2013 or you guys left early.
2012 was mostly cloudy out on Saturday and Sunday and on Saturday a big storm was rolling in and everybody left at the same time trying to beat the weather.
Saturday 2012 was by far the roughest water ever leaving the Shootout.

Was this Sunday? Saturday 2012 leaving the Shootout was cloudy as a storm was rolling in around 4:00 P.M. or so. The water Saturday was as bad as I've been in on the lake in 15+ years.