I would have to say over trimmed and the balance of the boat!!! Speed is not a factor!!! He could have been doing 40mph and would have landed on the transom!!!!

Wrong.

Speed was the single, exclusive factor. Hitting the wake at 20mph would not have produced the same effect, regardless of trim or balance.

to me it looks like he was going about 45 or so. regardless it's to bad. like anything else knowing the limits of your equipment and experience go a long way. i really feel for the guy though. i was clipping across rough seas in my old 28 challenger with twins and lost a drive at 80 plus. not a good deal. i put a good friends wife in the ER with multiple broken ribs etc. i know that was a little different circumstance however i didn't need to be racing another boat at the time either. to this day i will never forget it. that kind of mishap stays with you a long time and i am certain this guy will feel this forever and even perhaps have saved him from a bigger mishap.

Speed only exagerated the real problem. If he was truely in contol that wave could have been taken at a much higher rate of speed. it may have been a rough take off and landing, but not flipped. just my .02

here's my 2 cents. shouldn't be jumping wakes at any speed.

Sorry to see things like this but actually glad they are on video so we can all discuss them and hopefully learn from them. When I owned a 21 footer it was not in the cards, I looked for smooth water. When I got a 27 footer it was a blast and I did it whenever a wave presented itself. In the 36 it's hard in the lakes we boat in to find enough chop to break the hull free much less do what this guy did.

There looks to be many factors here at play but two things stand out to me. I'm guessing the boat is about 28 to 29 feet? A foot is like a mile in a boat when it comes to ride quality and handling. The longer the boat the harder it is to get the bow up like in that video unless you are in very rough conditions.

Add to that the fact this boat is really tail heavy with twins, add a little trim, misjudge the wake and you have a problem. Almost looks like wind may have been a factor also. I think many things came together like the "Perfect Storm".

We can all learn from these crashes.

I would love to find a DVD or article on how to properly operate a twin screw high performance boat. That thoroughly discussed what not to do. Any how boats wreck.

If anyone knows of a article or DVD please post.

Thanks

If you want to spend a few bux take the Tres Martin school...

Other than some Barge rollers, Nothing on The River will trip that 35 up....

Very disturbing video.
My guess is he panicked and throttled back. If anyone has ridden motorbikes you'll understand that when doing a wheelie just tapping that front brake stops the gyroscopic effect of the wheel and you drop like a rock!!! Throttling back not only disrupts the propeller gyro but the de-torquing of the engines further disrupts the boats flight geometry.
I feel for the guy.