wow.... that is terrible :(

Update - Larry is Out of surgery recovering, alert and doing good. Pretty major surgery for some head impact and basically he was scalped by the windshield so they had to reattach his scalp. He's banged up but will be out of the hospital in a couple days.

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this is great news

Well said!

Havasu has always been a fast boat lake. Everyone has to adapt to where they boat / jet ski, what have you.

That's great news, thanks for the update Tank!

The easiest way to not ged dead or fubar and avoid deading anyone else is to assume everyone else is going to take the right of way whether they have it or not and operating your boat like everyone around you has no clue... most of them dont anyways. There are times and places to run hard, there are times and places where running hard is inviting disaster and then there is a lot of time and place in between.

At least its not as bad as riding a bike yet. I got my first motorcycle when I was like 9 or 10, I raced for years, Not to sound egotistical, but I am a really good rider. world championships, walls full of trophies etc. I will NOT ride a street bike. I would love to ride one but I do not trust the other guy and I dont want to get dead because because some chick was texting, because some mom was yelling at her kids in the back seat, because some guy stopped for a few beers after work.

I agree (mostly) I was at a shootout maybe 8 years ago, actually just arriving, on the back side of the spectator fleet and coming off the throttle so as not to send a wake into the fleet. I look to my right and see a MTI running about 150 taking a celebrity for a ride. I turned to port and watched him go by at well over a hundred. I was not expecting that and later in the day heard he was *****ing about me not seeing him quick enough. If I'd had the opportunity I would have explained what a moron he was as he could have run down the course in relative safety.

It was one of many stupid things that happen around shootouts/poker runs that I have seen in 30+ years of boating.

I race a jetboat, so not afraid of speed, just has to be the right place and time as in "closed course"

That's exactly the way I have operated my boats forever and I've yet to regret it - although I have been the one to stand down or even come off plane countless times when I had the right-of-way. We as HP boaters have machines that will two-fold out-accelerate and outrun any potential idiot that might ever wander across our path (if we can turn them) so I always "TRY" to keep enough distance between myself and any potential idiots so I can avoid them no matter what erratic move they make. . If it is too crowded or if I am in too restricted a channel to allow for such maneuvers I simply I slow down - or even stop.

I assure you guys that although some people on this site feel that it is the responsibility of every other boater that we share the water with to account for the possibility that one of us might come barreling at them in a 150+ MPH machine, the rest of the boating community does not share that view. The first time one of our 150 MPH machines runs over a 14 year old erratic girl on a jet ski it might be over for all of us because the public will vilify us to hell and back no matter how at fault the teenager was.