http://www.click2houston.com/news/Bo...i/-/index.html

bridge 1, Bayliner 0.

So I'm guessing that in the new thread on "Best Boats for Hitting Bridges With", Bayliner won't do so well?

On a more serious note, the bow of that boat was not "sheared off" as was stated. "Crushed" would be a much better term. Thank god nobody died.

Back in 1984 Before Craig Barrie had anything to do with Cigarette he bought a "Brand New" 38 Scarab, The boat was delivered and launched at Cigarette, some kid that worked at Turnberry Isle had the job of driving it the 1.5 nautical miles from the Cig factory to Turnberry where Craig lived, at the 7/8's part of the short trip there is a Bridge, A BIG F'n Bridge, This Kid while showing off hit the Bridge and Flipped a 150K boat that only had a little more than a mile on it. The span between each Upright is probably 150', How he managed to hit one still baffles me. He couldn't make a 5 min trip (and thats going slow)

look at the bright side of all this. there is now one less bayliner on the water. lol

And to think I blasted under that same bridge at 90+ mph at one time. There aren't/weren't any buoys near that bridge. Only a extremely faded 2'x2' sign on one side of the bridge.

Crumple zone like a pumpkin hittin a wall......

I almost always come down off of plane when passing under bridges (that have supports in the water). Not that I can't navigate between them, just always have a fear of a steering malfunction whie approaching one. The cement support will win every time...

by the looks of the boat,id say they were going pretty slow,just about any other brand of boat would have bounced off and kept going,im not bashing bayliner boats,but lets face it,they are very cheaply built.