I'm in agreeance with selling everything and living in a bubble. This thread is out of control with others trying to tell people how to live a life or raise a kid. Let it go people. Guess what it sucks to say but we all will die. The day we are born we start dying. Might as well enjoy it while ya got it!! Still more people die in cars and I'm sure y'all drive and drive your kids places.

Wow.

Ok. Now for skanks

This seems like a good time. Fountain is better than any other boat.

I like your style !

Should it be fountain vs everyone else, performance vs center console, which oil to run, pulling with a truck too small, arneson vs #6, apache vs aircraft carrier (yes I know the apache rides better)?

So many arguements much more valid and interesting than this one

Everything is ALWAYS cool right up until it's NOT. :D :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfJC3SpE1I

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Might not be safe but it sure was fun. Yeah, that was us. Rope in one hand beer in another at 30mph. Guess what, we made it!

Nothin' like slingin' chit in a chit storm......:hitfan::champs::lolhit:

yup life jackets is the issue here

Hey, for all I care adults can try skydiving without the parachutes if that's what they choose. In fact, let me know...I'll bring some beer, a chair and take in the entertainment. However, the kiddies should be looked after IMO.

It always cracks me up a bit when people get their shorts in a bunch when their "freedoms" are trespassed on while living in the most regulated and law heavy countries on the planet. This friggin place is going to have to make laws about laws soon the way we're going.

Maybe this one is a bit more to your liking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihN6dNUP5Sc It all happens in a split second. In a car, you often have more warning, the tires are squeeling, car is sliding, but a boat, one second everything is great, and next second you are out of the boat.

Michael

The mom's hot.

so then we should wear helmets as well?

by the way I have owned a boat for over 32 years now. I know how fast things change from good to bad real quick., I get it ..I just think you guys are over reacting busting this guys chops for no reason ..carry on.


by the way two different examples ..
the guy was out for a ride with family and opened it up for a couple minutes .you are posting videos of a race.. two different things totally.

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Maybe this one is more to your liking. Here's a guy just going for a cruise in his bass boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEETjztLqI Michael

Just going for a cruise............give me a f"n break........airing out a bass boat jumping a cruiser wake....reason #3046 why bass boats suck.

keep searching youtube...have fun

by the way ..all I see is one adult wearing a safety vest exceeding the Boats limitations..no kids involved so what's your point?

let's see what you come up with next have fun looking

Adults can make their own decisions but i personally wouldn't let anyone stand between the seats and probably wouldn't let my kids run without a life jacket at those speeds.

I don't mind if my kids don't wear a jacket at idle, but they are going to wear one on plane for a few more years and i barely do more than about 50

My choice of pfds

Damn lucky they were NOT an issue here. This would have been a LOT more tragic had someone been ejected; and a couple of them were close to it.

Sydwayz,,you have always been to voice of safety on OSO and we appreciate that but,
we can all pretty much pick apart any video posted on here,whether its boat related,towing,packing bearings,safety straps,chicks pole dancing,well maybe not that,,lol
we have all done stupid $hit over the years,do not tell me you have not done something and latter on think to yourself man that was stupid WTF was I thinking,,I know I have..

I get safety,I have owned a boat way before I had kids,when we had kids the first thing my wife did when they reach the right age is take them to swim lessons,safety jackets? yes all the time while on the boat,could not walk on the pier unless safety jackets were on,and to make it sound cool so they would wear them we called them boat coats, safety is important ,I get it

do people sometimes loose their mind and act stupid ?yes..and even safety jackets cant help them at times.
the 1st think that would happen with those cheap $10.00 orange jackets at faster speeds that most people have would be to rip off your body,,so at times they could be a false sense of security,so why dont we start a thread and talk about the correct life jackets,,like lf we are going to run hard we should all put on our Lifelines,

the guy at the original video was out with his family having fun,,not acting like a jerk, so please stick to the original thread,or I suppose we could spent hours on youtube and post every video of every jack a$$ out there driving a boat.

Why is it that when people suggest the kid in the front be more securely seated or bolstered everyone gets their shorts in a bunch? Nobody is calling this guy reckless or anything, we've all see MUCH worse. But is this really a big deal?

Yep you are correct,,the kid should be secured in a bolster ,

my reply was to something totally different.I know we are on page 15 going round and round the same BS,,but please try to keep up before you call me out,,lol

The guy in the port bolster looks like the only one not having fun. It's a great video. The kid's smile is priceless. So when will it warm up so that we can go back to asking about how to fix stuff? :) (btw, all those old videos have already been posted and discussed)

Here's another dangerous situation. She could easily slide into the water and bang her head. Nope. Should be properly seated in the boat with a life vest on :) :

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I've got a great picture of someone teaching about 15 of us how to do the line dance to Copperhead Road on the bow of my boat right as the evening dew started falling. Talk about dangerous.....

The two injuries I've had on our boat was a buddy of mine walked up ran into the prop right after I had them redone and got 21 stitches in his knee (we were just anchored out, and i had just warned him that the props were sharp) and then one night my wife went to lasso the front piling, slipped and instinctively grabbed the piling and slid down it like a fireman. She was bloody head to toe after those barnacles tore her up.

Can't wait to go to browns!

I really do not understand the motivation of some of the people here who defend this guy again and again. I can only surmise that they either know him personally, or engage in this risky behavior repeatedly themselves. Who cares if he is out having a fun time with his family? We can see that. However, this is no 25 mph cruise around the bay. Judging from the rooster tail, he going well over 60, probably more like 80 or 90.

What happens when people like this do have an accident? The chorus of safety nuts come out in full force, demanding speed limits, horsepower limits, boat size limits, noise limits, and every other limit. All it takes is a bogus public comment period, and a few signatures by local, county or state politicians. Good luck getting those restrictions rescinded. Once it's done, it's done. I have to drive hours and hours now to even get to a lake without a speed limit. The nearest one, hours away, is dried up most of the time.

This adolescent attitude of "Nobody is going to tell me what to do", and then having no responsibility, is not going fly. If you want to keep your freedoms, and this high performance boat hobby going, people have to act responsibly.

The other adolescent attitude of "It'll never happen to me or anyone in my boat" needs a reality check. 13% of all recreational boating accidents in 2012 resulted in a fatality. If a performance boat is involved, I bet it is a lot higher than that.

So argue away if you want, but the people who are defending and engaging in this bad behavior are not doing the hobby any good, and are pushing it to its demise. PFDs and people sitting properly in a boat go a long ways toward showing the public that performance boaters care about safety, in contrast, to the current image of recklessness.

Michael

Jason Johnson summarizes this very well and just happens to be here

http://www.offshoreonly.com/articles...t/play-it-safe

I have never met this man and I have no problem with what he did. It's situational boating. It was calm. He might hit a decent speed but didn't maintain it. It was not a poker run. Oh yeah live coastal and run offshore no speed or noise laws there.

I would do the same. The kid up front is holding on. Sorry many of y'all are to the point of seatbelts in a boat. I'm not. Different situations call for different measures. At idle I let people sit on the hatch. On plane no. See different situation different rule. Calm weather and a nice little blast no biggie. Running amongst others when it's rough at speed different situation. You boat how you want ill boat and defend others how I want.

Now chill out

Sorry, I'm really not into taking orders.

You don't see anything wrong, Go look at the comments on YouTube, and see if the public agrees with you. They don't.

If there is a law, you lose the freedom to choose, no matter what the situation. If the public wants to ban performance boats, offshore or not, they just set laws or just tax them out of existence. All it took was a 10% luxury tax passed by Congress in the early 90's that put over 100 boat builders and related companies out of business. Did you know in Sausalito, CA, it is illegal to launch a personal watercraft from anywhere in the city, including boat ramps? If the government wants to ban performance boats, it will happen.

Michael

dude you're out there really out there man ..carry on

:rolleyes: Right. There's something wrong with me, and all the commenters that posted on this video on YouTube. We are all crazy. :lolhit:

Michael

Oh yeah a bunch of idiots posting on a YouTube video who many most likely don't even own a boat. Yes I forgot. They are all geniuses. Sorry I'm not a pansy ass. Wasn't born that way or raised that way. So enjoy your fear of everything and hope your bubble you should live in arrives soon. The rest of us with at least half a brain and half a nut sack will continue to drink beer (oh no we are alcoholics and may die of cirrhosis of the liver), driving (oh no someone could crash into me and kill me), riding my motorcycle without a helmet(omg hope you didn't just have a heart attack!!).

I have a set in the box

This is on your parent's Honda 90? :D

Got it! It's all about being macho! Hopefully, you won't trip over your gold chains, or, worse, they get caught in the prop. :D :D

Michael

It's none of our business but I'm willing to bet whatever you do for a living is in an office, behind a desk. There is no way that somebody with your outlook at things can work out in the field every day and actually get anything done. I'm guessing Attorney, accountant, engineer or something along those lines.

And your response is weak. Gold chains. Haha. You should be a comedian. Not about macho it's about not living in fear!!

This thread is still a joke.

Nobody gets anything done in those professions. :rolleyes: Alright, maybe I'll give you the Attorney. :D (just kidding for the attorneys here)

Who do you think designed your engines and drives? :confused:

I'm sure I am not as macho as you guys. I don't have anything to prove. I like to go fast as much as anyone else, but if I can throw on a PFD and carry a PLB, and avoid dying doing it, then so much the better.

Michael

Keep posting skank pics! The gay guys will leave the thread! lol

You knew where that was. I'm impressed. I love Brown's too. It's a boater's bar all the way!!

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It's sad when some people tell other people how to live.