The Razz vid is classic.

Glad to hear he is doing well. That area is usually not choppy except if there"s a lot of boat traffic. We had driven by it earlier in the day and had lunch in the area and conditions looked good.

Glad to hear Yeves is ok. I have bent one tie bar and sheared the end off another after launching off a wake and landing one one sponson before the other. The shear was due to metal fatigue the other was when the mid came out of the cradle after launch. Bungeeing my drives into the cradle solved one problem. Metal fatigue is hard to determine without magnifluxing. Tiebars are easy to fabricate and cheap from a material standpoint. I never understood the high costs for tiebars and associated components.

If a long time powerboat owner (of epic boats I might add) has trouble running an 800 HP small cat, then I'm smart enough to realize I certainly don't have the talent to do it!

Bring back the old heavy straight bottoms and leave the top speed runs to the guys with the helmets on.

Wonder if he had any cameras running?

I do believe he lost one of his friends in his 41 apache some years back running hard.

I was not talking about prop rotation but the fact that the engines had to turn outward to bend the tie bar.
Like I said the boat probably came down stern first on one side driving that motor over against the other bending the tie bar.

Just like push rods - larger diameter and or thicker material.

Spoke to a friend of Yves. He's fine. Broken vertebra, will heal. Like some people deduced, boat caught some air, came down funky on a sponsor. Didn't go over.