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09-02-2023 | 03:57 PM
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From: Joplin, Mo
I have been in several boats that lost engines at top speed, drives lock up like a brake, props break off, driveshafts turn into pretzels, ect. And anyone that says they spun out because of that is lying. Even in a hard turn it will do nothing besides make you slow down.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
edit: I guess I need to add that I was talking about high speed. At low speed it is possible for an engine shutting down to turn a boat. When you dock a cat you can turn the boat easily with one engine.
I guess at some point of low speed operations you could be going slow enough for one engine to turn the boat and just fast enough with enough other problems, wakes, setup, ect. to be able to flip a boat over. I have seen a v bottom roll over that was only going 30 mph but was just the perfect circumstance of wakes meeting while they were turning hard because they were not going fast and it rolled. But at high speed a cat will not turn hard from stopping one propeller. A v bottom at high speed could technically become unstable from engine torquing if it was up balancing on the limit and one engine shut off, but it would not turn because of prop drag but because of centrifugal forces from the engine.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
edit: I guess I need to add that I was talking about high speed. At low speed it is possible for an engine shutting down to turn a boat. When you dock a cat you can turn the boat easily with one engine.
I guess at some point of low speed operations you could be going slow enough for one engine to turn the boat and just fast enough with enough other problems, wakes, setup, ect. to be able to flip a boat over. I have seen a v bottom roll over that was only going 30 mph but was just the perfect circumstance of wakes meeting while they were turning hard because they were not going fast and it rolled. But at high speed a cat will not turn hard from stopping one propeller. A v bottom at high speed could technically become unstable from engine torquing if it was up balancing on the limit and one engine shut off, but it would not turn because of prop drag but because of centrifugal forces from the engine.
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09-02-2023 | 05:12 PM
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From: Point Pleasant/Demarest NJ
I have been in several boats that lost engines at top speed, drives lock up like a brake, props break off, driveshafts turn into pretzels, ect. And anyone that says they spun out because of that is lying. Even in a hard turn it will do nothing besides make you slow down.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
09-02-2023 | 06:10 PM
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I have been in several boats that lost engines at top speed, drives lock up like a brake, props break off, driveshafts turn into pretzels, ect. And anyone that says they spun out because of that is lying. Even in a hard turn it will do nothing besides make you slow down.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
And someone saying it turned the steering wheel out of their hand would make no sense whatsoever. That is someone that is trying to make excuses because it mechanically cannot happen.
You must be new around here, that guy is a legend (in his mind)!I know what happened:
Jimmy Darr was showing off the lake to a lady friend. He was pointing through the polycarbonic windshield made by him and a team of Nasa engineers so he was rounding the point where SuperCat Cove was going to be built and was explaining how his Nor-tech dealership was going to be anchored when suddenly one of his custom built high performance motors that runs on fairy dust suddenly redlined and when he heard the boom he flashed back to the Supercat Cove boat launching location thinking he would get the boat out with the 40 ton travel lift. Boat goes over, Jimmy gets splashed in his face and suddenly realizes its his chance to be "Sunkin" famous on OSO again with his rollever story. He was drying off on the deck of the overturned cat wonder what screen name he would use..............Buddy OO was reborn!
09-02-2023 | 06:16 PM
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From: Lees Summit ~ LOTO 10MM
Are you calling Jim Darr a liar? You must be new around here, that guy is a legend (in his mind)!
I know what happened:
Jimmy Darr was showing off the lake to a lady friend. He was pointing through the polycarbonic windshield made by him and a team of Nasa engineers so he was rounding the point where SuperCat Cove was going to be built and was explaining how his Nor-tech dealership was going to be anchored when suddenly one of his custom built high performance motors that runs on fairy dust suddenly redlined and when he heard the boom he flashed back to the Supercat Cove boat launching location thinking he would get the boat out with the 40 ton travel lift. Boat goes over, Jimmy gets splashed in his face and suddenly realizes it’s his chance to be "Sunkin" famous on OSO again with his rollever story. He was drying off on the deck of the overturned cat wonder what screen name he would use..............Buddy OO was reborn!
You must be new around here, that guy is a legend (in his mind)!I know what happened:
Jimmy Darr was showing off the lake to a lady friend. He was pointing through the polycarbonic windshield made by him and a team of Nasa engineers so he was rounding the point where SuperCat Cove was going to be built and was explaining how his Nor-tech dealership was going to be anchored when suddenly one of his custom built high performance motors that runs on fairy dust suddenly redlined and when he heard the boom he flashed back to the Supercat Cove boat launching location thinking he would get the boat out with the 40 ton travel lift. Boat goes over, Jimmy gets splashed in his face and suddenly realizes it’s his chance to be "Sunkin" famous on OSO again with his rollever story. He was drying off on the deck of the overturned cat wonder what screen name he would use..............Buddy OO was reborn!
09-02-2023 | 06:36 PM
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From: Joplin, Mo
His stories were bad before but now he has something that he can say that is extreme and we can’t say it didn’t happen. Some details may be lies but he did in fact flip a canopy race boat. Had I not seen a police report with his name on it I probably wouldn’t have believed it. I have flipped a canopy race boat too so I guess me and Jim finally have something in common we can sit around and drink beers and talk about.
