The biggest water you ever ran fast in?
 

After reading the last post I was wondering how big the biggest water some of you have been in at speed? At speed I mean over 50 MPH ?

lol about almost 2ft was all i wanted in my pachanga.

Well can't say 50's but I know mid 40's+ (gps was last thought)

4'- 7' ers and that was new years day in front of the Skyway. Pretty crazy being I have only owned the boat since Oct and my first time ever in that kind of water.

Every bit of 2-3,, in my 20' CC stinger, had it on the dash a few times 65 in some spurts. Had to do it, buddy swore his 29 scarab would dust me off. Needles to say I prob will never do that again, but only person at risk was me. Not big water compared to alot, but in a little 20ft,,,,,WHAT A RIDE.. ( but I dusted that ass off out and back in)

John jr

Point Pleasant 08 or 09(I think it was) after that storm came through saturday night was pretty big. It was a very unique situation where the wind was on shore at around fifty knots but spun around to forty knots offshore in the middle of the night. Kept the wave height big but knocked the span far apart. If I remember the coast guard said tens (and they were) but they were probably a hundred or two feet apart. Absolutly the funnest race ever! We could still touch a hundred and it was like running these big hills and valleys of water. You could launch and it seemed like youd kite down the other side like a ski jumper or something :D

LOTO shootout 2012

4 to 6s in my mistress the day they called off the st pete grand prix for rough conditions about 7 or 8 years ago. i only saw one other perf boat out and he was just putting along, my mistress would only do about 68 or 70 with the 572s i had in it in front of #3s, and i had the sticks as far forward as they would go. my buddy was scared chitless when i launched it off a few 8s, man did we get some hang time. that mistress was so solid it was unreal, it ate that stuff up and didn't flinch... that thing was indestructible, hey it was the apache 41s daddy lol

That was some snotty stuff on Sat afternoon. Solid 3-4' washing machine with an ocassional 5-6' hole

yep i was there and it got crazy.

6' plus in of all places the Hudson River (howling headwind) . In my buddies 28 Cigarette. The waves were very close together, so he jumped on top of them and pinned the throttles. Beautiful, till the waves got further apart. Long story short, he stuffed that 28 well below the midpoint (height wise) of one of those waves, it sucked.

I will say 3-5-4-6's also in a Mistress, the way that boat goes through a wave is not describable, it just does the job and you can run pretty fast in that kinda water with these things, the Mistress is a heavy slow tank but goes through anything.... I would say I averaged 40-60 mph depending on how the waves were set up... passengers normally keep me from getting too stupid, but I love big water in that Mistress, people doubt it on here but unless you been on one you cant compare....

they called for 5-7's this day, not sure what you wanna call them but it wasnt flat.... I averaged 40-45 most of the time this day...and I didnt get beat up at all honestly, my Baja would beat the fuk out of me in this stuff....and it did this water is not uncommon on the great lakes..

CLICK PICTURE FOR VIDEO... FUN RIDE!!

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/...ps253960d5.jpg

you are one of the few people that I see that knows how the Mistress really is, people dont get it till they ride on one....

I was out in front of the Holland Michigan pier head one day with my nephew in my old 251 Check. The water was pretty big.. 8'-10'. We headed out to play and had a blast. The waves were maybe 50' apart and this was his first ride in my boat. I could get in a trough with walls of water on each side and we got close to 50mph.. then you ride up on the peak of the way and it felt like you were 100' in the air. Not my fastest run in the Big Lake, but surely a memorable moment. I am sure he will never forget it.. just because I haven't.. Fun day on Lake Michigan.

I have a 22' Donzi Classic with a 525 and it is dialed in perfectly. 1-2s are my favorite. An absolute blast to run in at speed even with the occasional 3 footer. 3-4s are doable but not comfortably and I have to be careful of the occasional 5 or 6 or I will, and have, stuffed it. I planed out briefly in 6s on Lake Michigan once. That was crazy. 6-8s had me off plane and running at or just above idle speed on Lake Erie once. It took about 4 hours to go about 20 miles before it calmed down enough to plane out the rest of the way to the Detroit River. Great Lakes waves tend to be messed up water. Unpredictable and with some big holes. Once you think it's calmed down, guess again. This is a 22 foot boat that I run on Lakes Huron, St. Clair and Erie and twice on Lake Michigan.

same thing for 41 Apache, first time I took a ride in one (threes to fours) when I got back to the dock somebody asked me how it was. my answer, I dont know we were playing Jenga down in the cabin :D



your mistress is the right tool for the job in this lake. I just moved into a 38 Scarab thunder cant wait to get it out in the chop :cool:

last ride in my powerplay 33 70+ in 2-3-4 with occasional big ones on lake michigan with a couple buddys who own pontoons we ran racine to whinthrop about 20 miles very memorable last ride did the cig in 3s 4 s with the waves about 45 - 50 with mom and dad sitting in the back seat drinking iced tea trying to beat the rain from milwakee to Kenosha 2 totally different rides p p ran over the top cig just goes thru it looking out side at the snow I miss boating

68ish in 3's and 4's in my 33 PowerPlay. Anything bigger on that size boat and you're just beating the sh!t out of your equipment or trying to be the big man and impress people...until something breaks. 3s/4s is plenty rough...watch our for that occasional hole too LOL!

I've been in bigger but not on plane and I turned around.

6-8 in the gulf in my 33 scarab til I stuffed it, never want to do that again. I thought the boat was gunna break in half

[QUOTE=Griff;4057783]That was some snotty stuff on Sat afternoon. Solid 3-4' washing machine with an ocassional 5-6' hole[/QUOTE)

That was a FUN day!!

my 2 favorite videos,,shot on the same day,1 going over,the other a couple hours later coming home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsXM...gvTb5A&index=3

coming home,,not bad for 490ci.:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MDM...=share&index=4

Ditto.

I remember that year!!! I was a sweep boat for that race... I ran the boat down from Sandy Hook that morning. It was a SE swell so basically we were running directly into the swells for the 30 minute commute.

I've run in a lot bigger conditions though. :-)

Couple older vids;
http://youtu.be/ExbZfhvYlsA
http://youtu.be/RAnKgW8cQlA

Back to the original question Randy had. I experienced some big days living in Jersey that I ran it. There would be at least a few of those days each season. A majority of the time there would always be something out there. What was the largest??? I never got out a yard stick but there have been multiple times I could not see the horizon between swells so do the math.

Big enough that BZ and I both broke fairings punching through waves on the run from South Haven Mi to Saughatuck Mi a few years ago.

Prob 6-8,,,, but that hole that caught us both had to be 10-12 from the trough to the top of the wave !!! :eekdrop:

il bet your back felt good after that ride!

These were real life 2-3 foot (oso 6-8 with 15's thrown in) This is what happens when you run 115-120 in a 46 skater in real 2-3' notice the big gaps in spray behind the boat and how much we are getting bounced around.


http://youtu.be/c1Sepd-pc_E

where was that video taken,what body of water?

this was loto shootout 2012 in the 46 skater running in the 2-3 foot chop. in the rough parts of the video we were running around 80 mph in the smooth parts of the video 115-120 mph

http://youtu.be/25az-8JZgO0

the smaller boats were having a rough time but you seemsd to go through it with no problem,nice video,thanks for posting it.

No pictures/video's, but I ran my old 85 sbc 24ft chaparral in 2-3ft swell on Lake Ontario. Right around 50 for 20min or so. Launching ever 10-15sec was a wild ride for me back then haha

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.