Should of had a GoPro for that ride:)

Yea no chit. What guy wouldn't like a go pro video of 7 girls riding in a badass boat with tig ole' bitties bouncing around?!!

Go go Grasshopper! SMITH POWER!!!

If this boat is so badass, why wouldn't you run it in the shootout? Then maybe this tread could die. It would confirm it as badass or justify the haters.

It's not a freaking glass water boat!!! WTF?!?! Who gives a rats azz what it would do on a smooth course. Props out baby. That's how Travis rolls :-)

Had a GREAT time running with WL after the Shootout in Saturday around the 22-23mm. :coolcowboy: Comparatively speaking, we only had HP500's in a '99 42' Fountain, but we were all in and, from the 31mm to the 19mm, we only got passed by a canopied Outerlimits, a canopied Fountain race boat, and White Lightning. Obviously, doesn't mean other boats way ahead or behind us weren't going faster, but we were cooking pretty good for our hardware. Travis came up and ran side by side and the boat performed and sounded 100% badazz. Talked with Travis later at Shady's and he said whoever was driving that Fountain was doing it well. :drink:

When you're running out there with it, it's painfully obvious how well that boat does in the rough and it sounds mean as hell. Too cool watching it run from that perspective. I enjoy talking boats and bs'ing with Travis. Others may make bold statements, but Travis has never told me he was better or faster than anyone else, it's just obvious he loves the boat. If I were that concerned about showing him up, I might pass him every chance I had, but it doesn't look like I'm gonna be able to do that any time soon! If I knew him better, I'd talk him into running that machine to Bimini and back. :evilb: Maybe I'll start working on that...

I just love this thread. There's so much conjecture as it is, and then you suddenly have Brad Smith fanboys offering more blather...Travis himself gets on and is quite gentlemanly, then gets pissed of and goes nuts on someone for no good reason...its freakin' HILARIOUS.

Looks like Only Rumors was out as well...did somebody finally buy it? Stepped 41 Apache hull wit 900s...dialed in on Lake Michigan, where it REALLY gets rough...

Yea I dont doubt that Lake Michigan gets REALLY rough. But for the most part, all the waves are going the same way and are predictable. LOTO is so narrow that you have waves bouncing back and forth making it very unpredictable. There are TONS of large cruisers on LOTO and their waves criss cross across the lake and cause the boat to bounce in any direction potentially causing damage or injury. Thats why in 2006 LOTO was named the 3rd most dangerous waterway in the US according to the US Coast Guard data.

And this past Sat was about the roughest I have seen it in the 10 + yrs I have been going to the shootout.

I know MY Smith Power Kicked some azz in it.

yes Only Rumors was tied up next to us on Sat & they stayed at the Ledges condos in the unit below us. The daughter said they also own the Chief. Boat looked great. Although Sat on way back from shootout it started taking on water. i think they said a water pickup or something along those lines broke, but they were able to get it fixed.