Gladiator flipped in Biscayne Bay...
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your head up your joass to screw up boats of this size in bays or lakes
That is the reason the Shootout is bouyed off for a mile in both directions to flatten out the waves. Don't need any wipe outs to destroy lives or boats. Still have one or two every year. Always driver too far over the edge or equipment malfunction.
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Originally posted by T2x
Let's switch gears and try to answer it..........
Do steps and their inherent instability cause wrecks....... or do people's inability to control the inherent instability of steps cause wrecks?
T2x.............
Let's switch gears and try to answer it..........
Do steps and their inherent instability cause wrecks....... or do people's inability to control the inherent instability of steps cause wrecks?
T2x.............
If an operator of a boat cannot be trained to operate a step bottom boat then the only logical solution is computer fly by wire control much like is used on unstable aircraft. I mean if they can make a Nighthawk fly I would think a computer could keep a 42 fountain under control. However it would certianly limit the envelope that a 42 fountain would operate under. Ie I wouldn't want to try to turn a F-117 inside a F-16 and I wouldn't want to try to turn a 42 fountain at high speed inside a 41 Apache....Uh Oh...I shouldn't have said that
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Originally posted by cuda
I'm in Corrado's corner on this one. Though I am no expert on hull design, I'd say by definition that if you flip or spin a boat when nothing broke to cause it, it is definetly driver error. Not knowing the limits of the boat is driver error. Letting a huge wake sneak up on you is driver error.
I'm in Corrado's corner on this one. Though I am no expert on hull design, I'd say by definition that if you flip or spin a boat when nothing broke to cause it, it is definetly driver error. Not knowing the limits of the boat is driver error. Letting a huge wake sneak up on you is driver error.
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...and , of course, sky-high X-dimensions have nothing to do with it.
This thread is almost as worthless as the one(s) about freeing Ben Kramer.
But it has surpassed most of the Apache threads in stupidity and is rapidly closing.
I'm ashamed I read it.
This thread is almost as worthless as the one(s) about freeing Ben Kramer.
But it has surpassed most of the Apache threads in stupidity and is rapidly closing.
I'm ashamed I read it.
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Wasn't there one boat that was pulled off the market because it was so dangerous? I think it was the ONLY boat in the history of PB mag that got slammed because it was so dangerous. Sorry, just can't remember which manufacturer it was.