134 knots!!! and hitting a buoy!

134mph in sod-all viz is the mark of a crew that has succeeded in suppressing their imagination to a suicidal extent. After all, you've got three of them on board, with one steering and the second working the throttles. After they hit the buoy, you can see bits of fibreglass hull flying off for sometime afterwards, as part of the hull breaks up.
 
Aside from the apparent lack of appropriate action when entering the fog .......... do people not think of wearing a crash helmet and perhaps some protective clothing and a seat harness might be appropriate on a boat travelling at such speed .
 
I would have thought doing some kind of weather check beforehand might actually have been a good idea, so they could abort the attempt if the course wasn`t clear ..... and surely they must have seen the fog coming, but it seems they made no attempt to slow the boat down.

I'm speechless ... and very glad I wasn't sitting in my boat drinking a cup of tea and waiting for the fog to clear.... but they wouldn't have heard my 1 long 2 short blasts anyway ... come to think of it, I didn't hear him doing the required one-long blast either.
 
maverickofpoole said:
I can't believe he has lived long enough to become as they say in the vid a powerboat legend.
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You'd better believe it, because becoming a "powerboat legend" in the way used in this context - particularly over the pond - simply means having more money than sense, use it to pay someone to build something insanely fast for you, and have the guts to hammer the throttles no matter what - nothing else. And this is the result.
Just think about it: most of us would have rather swallowed the camera used to shoot that video, together with the memory card and the battery, rather than risk to have anyone looking at how silly we have been.
For these folks, showing such video is cool, possibly even something to be proud of...
 
If I was the manufacturer of the boat, I'd post this video on my website straightaway. Any boat that can withstand striking a boooeeey at 134kts and leave it's occupants unscathed has got to be built pretty damn strong
 
Naah... Aside from the fact that MTI reputation is already more than good enough for these boats, if they would have hit the thing in the middle, someone should have recovered two hulls and several body pieces all over the place, I reckon.....
 
MapisM said:
Naah... Aside from the fact that MTI reputation is already more than good enough for these boats, if they would have hit the thing in the middle, someone should have recovered two hulls and several body pieces all over the place, I reckon.....
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Still impressive though. I once saw what a buoy did to an Aquastar hull in the Solent and that was at about 8kts. I expect you're going to tell me now that American boooeeeys are made of cardboard:D
 
MapisM said:
You'd better believe it, because becoming a "powerboat legend" in the way used in this context - particularly over the pond - simply means having more money than sense, use it to pay someone to build something insanely fast for you, and have the guts to hammer the throttles no matter what - nothing else. And this is the result.
Just think about it: most of us would have rather swallowed the camera used to shoot that video, together with the memory card and the battery, rather than risk to have anyone looking at how silly we have been.
For these folks, showing such video is cool, possibly even something to be proud of...
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Certainly the commentator only saw his heroic attempt to avoid the buoy and 'save the lives of his crew'.
 
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Maybe he figured cheating death once made him invincible....or you only live once....and he really bought into the live hard and die young type of approach to life.

 
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