Sutphen flips jumping a wake
 

Been posted many times. Very bad driver errror.

Should read - "Idiot flips" instead of "Sutphen flips".

Not the Sutphens fault.


UD

I hope the idiot didn't hurt any passengers.

People on the boat did get hurt

You wanna jump waves buy a jet ski and do it by yourself. Shmuck

I am gonna jump in here and say that I have spoken with the owner of that sutphen. although I dont know him well. I do know he doesnt seem like the kind of guy who tried to hurt anyone.


driver error or not It wasnt intentional.

I have seen alot of guys jump boats wakes and I have seen guys get into situations that were out of control and most just get lucky and learn from it.

Lets not slam the poor guy.

Theres really not that much info out there on how to properly handle a performance boat.
I know I have posted questions and very rarely got answers.
Only thru the years of driving and a few tips do I have info and I still have ALOT to learn.

I am sure no one on here has ever been to the edge with thier boat.:rolleyes:

That driver actually put together a pretty successful career throttling/driving some pretty quick boats.

So what caused the boat to land on the transom like that? Trimmed out too much when he hit the wake. It is a very disturbing video for sure.

I'll take a stab at it (maybe the Pros will chime in).

If I had to choose one thing, I'd say excessive speed. But contributing factors would include being over trimmed so the bow came up high and, it kind-of looks like he hit the wake at a slight angle.

In a thread somewhere said he was doing about 70mph. To me it doesn't look like he was going that fast, but I don't know.

Hopefully someone like Tres will chime in and break it down for us.