Soooooo who was it? Tossed out of boat in greenport
09-18-2014, 10:50 PM
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When the boat hops and high sides in a turn ejecting the passengers, it does slow significantly. It hits the rev limiter and knocks itself back to idle, rev limiter and back to idle. It's also scary as chit the first time it circles around coming back at you after you just hit the water at speed. I was a passenger on a TS Gun in a similar incident with 6 guys on board. In both cases everyone was luck they didn't hit each other or the boat on the way out of it. The boat should be perfectly fine after this spin.
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09-19-2014, 11:05 AM
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09-19-2014, 12:28 PM
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The BS flying around here is pretty comical. The incident at Gilbert's, which was years ago now, was the first time he took the boat out, and it was the first boat he had ever operated a boat. Fast forward a couple of years to this week and he has most likely logged a couple hundred hours seat time in that specific boat. I've seen him run the boat and he is perfectly capable of operating it.
09-20-2014, 02:02 PM
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At age 16 I was driving my father's Pantera wide open and before that his 74 mph 20' Cigarette, he had no concern about me crashing, his concerns were just about me trashing his motor (running too hard for too long a period of time), breaking a drive or prop.
Now if your son wants his father's boat (your boat) to go out all alone, then it is surely a judgment call. You know your son best. Teach him, you may be surprised, or you may not. My $.02 opinion. We all have to learn sometime
PS The Cigarette crash, sh*t happens, learn form your mistake, fortunately no one was injured, hard to stop youth's indiscretions, "but for the Grace of God there go I," so I keep a reserved tongue for the young man who crashed.
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09-20-2014, 03:45 PM
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My buddy bought the boat from a NASCAR guy in NC some years ago, and the name was on it when he bought it, sold it to CT and they left name on it apparently. as far as the Fountain in the picture above, happened across the Bay from my house, bad night leaving a new dock bar, several markers getting you out of channel, just missed the last one!!
I'm sorry if this sounds argumentative, bit it looks to me like he didn't miss that marker.
