Ocean please pull up lake Mead on a map and zoom out until its not visible and pan over to the great lakes and by comparison how big do those waves get?

He gone. There’s always SOS. Or is that even a thing anymore?! BTW OP I’ve boated Mead and I just don’t see the winds causing 8’ waves.

you said you were here to learn and gain knowledge. people on here have hundred if not thousands of hours of seat time and know the limitations of performance boats. They also are educated in the area of wave heights. If they tell you, you aren’t running thru 5’s in a 33’ boat...I’d listen. They are probably right.

we ran our 38’ top gun today in 2-4’s...on the way out we got our asses kicked. it’s comical to think you can run in bigger water with a shorter boat lol

He gone!!!!!
:banned:

33 AVS is a ok boat, mine sucks in REAL 4 to 5's, £i think if i ran hard in them it would break in half. Its a LIGHT boat, im.out of water FLYING thru air in real 3 to 4s more than im in it fwiw but hey, , i only boat on the great lakes, nothing like lake mead!

For the OSO members that found this 72 hour, 3,500 view thread full of 'fake facts' and full of disrespectful comments, I'd invite you to us Wild West Team Scarab members backup site: Riverdavesplace.com There are plenty of threads with memories from trips on Lake Powell, Lake Mead and Lake Mohave when the Weathergods made things interesting. 70' foot houseboats struggling to take shelter in coves on Mead, some don't make it or still break apart while tied up with quad or more lines in the best shelter available along the cliff wall coves. A ton of large boats have been lost on Mead and Powell especially. Washmachine 6'-8' showing up out of nowhere across the lake and 50-60 mph wind with gusts in the mid to upper 70s or more. It's amazing what storms in the desert canyons are able to do. Nobody of course enjoys running in much more that 2'-3' waves and surfing a 5' swell or two when returning from an offshore run in the SoCal Pacific, it's just kind of fun if you got a good size high quality boat. But having grown up along the Scandinavian coasts I had seen a lot of impressive seas, but nothing had prepared me for the treasurous conditions on Lake Mead or out by Point Conception and the Channel Island outside of Santa Barbara fore that matter. The Vikings favorite race was for many years the annual Skagerak Across Race, roundtrip Norway to Denmark. Only takes about 3 hours, so the classic British Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race is comparable during a rough ocean year.

You can’t really say stuff like this and maintain credibility.
Either somebody was taking a beating or the seas were much smaller than 6’.
Also, will these boats actually run 70 mph with the trim all the way down?

Some good entertainment.

IMHO only, don’t see why he was booted unless he was Darr. Was he ?

In another thread, our self confident mate 'Ocean' said he's done a deal on the 43 Larry Smith at Archer Marine. If it's true, I hope they teach him how to drive it. 😎

RR

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I think this is the most interesting post OSO has had in a while. I’ve never felt compelled to comment or poke my two sense in but I kind of feel bad for the guy, I can attest to what Lars and Ocean are saying, Lake Mead can be one wild son of a gun, that body of water deserves a lot of respect and when it’s windy ain’t no place for a beginner, I don’t care what size a boat. I don’t know about if I believe all the nonsense about trim tabs and what not, but they are not kidding around when they are talking about extremely high winds and high waves. Lars you brought back old memories, mid 90s I have never been more scared than I was on Mead. Im not going to go into and argue all the nonsense about wave weight and time, I’ll let you young bucks get all red in the face about that, but I’ve been on LOTO now almost 20 years and its worst and ugliest days I’d recon it a mild day at Mead. LOTO only really stirs up on the 4th or after a big run and even then gentlemen it still doesn’t have the temper and attitude of Mead. These are two totally different animals. Mead is something else, I didn’t really enjoy boating while I was there, that damn lake takes the fun out of it, why do you think you never hear about anyone boating on it. Its too bad that you blocked the young man, must of been frustrating for him he knew what he was saying about the lake was true and y’all came down on him hard yall ganged up and poked fun. I guess the upside is we don’t get to see him hurt himself proving you all wrong. Probably better that way. But was it right?