Another boat flipped
07-12-2004 | 06:52 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
I'd love to stand on shore and watch anyone run 90mph in a straight bottom, and crank the wheel as hard as they can. They would be swimming, hopefully. Most straight bottoms can't run those speeds though. Most aren't even close.
07-12-2004 | 07:43 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
Originally Posted by Spitfire1
Back in June when we beat this subject to death the incident rate was almost equally split...with the v bottom leading by one....this is logical since there are more v bottoms out there than cats by a wide margin.......so it is not a fair comparison.....but since you seem to enjoy statistics and such I would assume you would already know this........
07-12-2004 | 08:03 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
Originally Posted by Havasu Cig
You also don't hear about all the incidents. Last weekend a 34' cat barrel rolled 3 times on Havasu, and I have not seen anything on this site about it.
What happens in Havusa stays in Havasu. The Good, The Bad, The Parties, The Accidents and the nakedness.....
Just kidding........
07-12-2004 | 08:04 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
Originally Posted by Shane B
You are correct they were out testing
My memory is not always the best....
07-12-2004 | 10:22 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
I really am amazed at all of the conversation on the safety and handling characteristics of the stepped hulls. All one has to do is run a stepped hull, even a 42 tiger with side by sides at 95-100 across 3-4 footers in a straight line and then jump in a non stepped hull, try a Cig or Sutphen 39 and run across the the same water at the same speed. Granted the old hulls will definetly take more to get there. But, the ride charcteriscics are totally different. Everytime the hull re-enters you can feel the difference. My limited experince with the stepped hull gave me the feeling like I was running on marbles and the rear of the boat was basically sliding around, and did not track in a line as straight as the non stepped. But then again, the same thing that makes them fast in a straight line makes them somewhat slippery. 
07-12-2004 | 11:05 PM
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Re: Another boat flipped
Originally Posted by rainmn
I'd be curious to know how many have been built total, and of those, how many have been over. Not trying to stir anything up, I think they are awesome boats. I just seem to recall hearing about quite a few of them going over.
Me too. I just want to be safe since Jeffery has one. And I'm learning how to drive it. I don't want to make the same mistakes they did.
AND you people who own FORMULA's or Apache's I don't want to hear a WORD
