https://youtu.be/QWFI7amM5Ms?t=1

little goofy at first but into the snot

Mark IV 496 roller/stroker BBC, Volvo 280T transom shield (full trim) and a Volvo 270 outdrive with 1.56 gears. 63mph because she is such a heavy boat. The rounded keel just make reentry a lot softer. Doesn’t do much for getting on top of the water when its flat but you never get beat up by the boat in the rough. Most cases the faster you go the smoother it gets.

That is the reason I will never “raft up’ with any of my boats. It seems like there is not a weekend that goes by during the season that there’s not a video posted of the same thing happening. Then people file reports with DNR because a ship made a wave. Short of it being a tsunami and knocking down all the houses along the shoreline it’s called a wave and it happens all the time on the water. Even when and where you don’t expect it.

https://youtu.be/u9SaTacGzLg?t=2

2nd portion its a 35 Café Racer

The 1st portion was pretty tame and then HOLY COW, that turned ugly. Too many dudes on the boat, and whats up with the guy waving the go pro on a stick all around?

Not my video but I always thought this one captures it good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LM...DF6F074E2921A0

I found a video I made about 9 years ago before the second make over of the boat. It's not the worst but it's about as rough as it could be and me still be able to hold the camera (real camera back then) and drive at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE7C8E-mhK4

Buddies 41 Apache in the Gulf over here juat south of Johns pass.

https://youtu.be/cCw_SHSwCC4

Looks like Plum Gut

In little boats big water is a relative term..... but still fun,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoeXjbdn9I

How are the sit downs in that stuff?

Welcome to Plum Gut! :D

this was a fun run back from kelleys island in the fall on lake erie. it wasn't the biggest I have be out in but I was loving it the wife on the other hand was not lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wevq3noggc

Excellent. we were soar the next day, but just from the constant jostling. There was wasnt a single "hard hit" felt thru the seat. But they are really good seats that werent cheap either,,,,, The containment is excellent too, not once did it remotely feel like we were going to get bounced out of the seats, up, down front back or sideways. Glassdave liked them and he has a lot of racing time so....

Cant have a rough water thread with out the posting of this video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og3-FIMjB7k

That is a great video! The big boats are cool but the little boats are a blast too! Thats why you can never have too many boats!

Cool video and great tunes!

Sorry folks, I hate the driver but this is "drop the mike" big water blasting at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7mSxOAg-UU

2006 Chicago poker run . When you could look in every direction and all there was was a wall of water

When a 41 can get good air time. Thanks for posting that video Jay, that was one of my most favorite days spent with Jerry. Sure do miss him.

I posted this a few years ago, fits the "big water" thread.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...ith-a-Baja-502

Even our little Lake St. Clair blows away any other lake in this country. When you can go out of sight of land in any direction that is true offshore boating to me. The only lakes comparable in size are not navigable: Okeechobee and Great Salt Lake. Weekdays are for cruises to Put-in-Bay or up the river to Lake Huron. Weekends are for partying on Muscamoot Bay and capping the day with a burger and fries at Brown's Bar. :)

I remember that year. I was on White Lake with a group of small Donzis waiting for the big boats to come in for the card stop. Some of us ventured out into Lake Michigan into 6 footers there by shore. Only two of us planed out. We quickly went back onto White Lake. Many of the big boats stayed in the harbor and some turned back. The Baja PokerFace ran though. The pics I took are on film. Remember film? lol

been caught on long island sound with an east wind rolling straight down the sound with 8 footers stacked up tight couldn't even turn around had to go all the way over to ct until it died down.
lotsa fun

ROF...been there done that. The east wind on LIS is absolutely brutal. One year a buddy of mine launched out of Stratford in his 21' Four Winns with the intent of meeting us in the Norwalk Islands. Well once he got out there were steep 6's rolling down to the western end, he couldn't turn around. We took the Nordic out to meet him not really knowing how bad the Sound was kicked up, made it past the Cockenoe lighthouse and started to take waves over the bow. We just turned around and said f-it, he aint coming down. No sooner were we about to turn we see this dinky little boat surfing a wave towards us...the dude got out there and had to surf the crest of the wave all the way down or he'd have gotten swamped, he and his passenger where scared white. We all went back to the Norwalk docks and I took him home in the truck, he came down the next day to drive the boat back after the Sound felt like behaving.

It is always fun when ones and twos go to fives to six's in the matter of one beer. That makes for an interesting ride back

Or when you are sitting on the top of a wave between kelleys and marblehead with the bow and drive out of the water at the same time with no power till it drops in. The one and only time the bilge pump kicked on and didn't shut off till we got in to westbay inlet from taking on so much water. I think the grate lakes are by far the most unpredictable and headrest body's of water to boat. Just my opinion thow

Any body of water with enough fetch will be a handful with the right wind conditions.

The comments are a crack up!!! LOL :D :D


"Clay Laurence1 week ago
what an absolute jackhole! Take your parents out and drench them. Dude, your a complete dork. The look on your fathers face as he's glaring at you the entire trip says it all..."I raised a dip****!"

This has to be my all time favorite:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDV7vHF2G4
@:18 just comes screaming thru like a mad man lol

You all know why offshore race boats that were only 20+ feet long all of a sudden went to 40+ footers?

This was Brandon Lee in his 36 skater at that poker run. He was in second place to all the card stops behind Jim Lee (no relation) in the 46 Freedom Skater.

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That pervious image was an Apache 41...allez vite. Very well known boat.

We were floating just north of this picture during Boyne Thunder. We were a Marshall boat, Rob had it locked in, but there was also several boat wakes. Just before he came by a 34 PQ launched to the sky. They sat there for awhile before taking off again. A+ to Rob and Dave for holding that line!
https://youtu.be/9PoeXjbdn9I

holy bad ass!!!!!!!!

The first 3 minutes of Razz playing in the breakers is awesome.
https://youtu.be/56asSZmSphs

I know they r good but has anyone else noticed that it is always the same 6 or so apache videos that get posted up. These are wave killers so lets see them kill some different waves for once.

Before or after the broke tab?

Unfortunately they don't seem to get used like they used too. Razz is just a hull now, hope someone saves it but that's a lot of money to do right.

We were still running hard and launching with the broke tab....Got 280s or it now, no more little lencos

Hope you cleaned the bottom as well!