Are you interested in safe long distance cruising on bulletproof boats?

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MapisM

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If yes, well, DON'T look at this video.
After the first minute, you might think "bloody hell, that's crazy fast!", but it's actually just the engine warming bit... :eek:
Oh, and for the records, the boat has a freeboard of one foot or so, and is designed for waterski, go figure!
 
Yup that is crazy fast but you gotta love Yankee boating. No namby pamby no-wake zones or yotties complaining about mobo wash. Btw whats the LH pedal for?
 
Beyondhelp said:
Awesome! I've been on a 20ft boat doing 65+mph but that looks way faster.
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You bet. Some of those monster ski boat can achieve speed in the region of twice your number.
Can't tell for sure what max speed they reach in the video, but it's well into 3 digits league for sure...!
 
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Yup that is crazy fast but you gotta love Yankee boating. No namby pamby no-wake zones or yotties complaining about mobo wash. Btw whats the LH pedal for?
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Yeah, absolutely. Did you see the deck boat with the bimini that they overtake towards the end of the video?
If you manage to freeze the video exactly at 4:21, you can see that she's fully on the plane, maybe not far from wot.
...but they pass her as if she was going backward! :D :cool:

I'd think that the second pedal is for the flaps, but I'm not completely sure, 'cause these boats have loads of controls: huge flaps, cavitation plates, ballast tanks...
Definitely not something trivial to master appropriately!
 
Corribee Boy said:
The left pedal, according to the youtube blurb, is for the 'cavitation plate' - pressing it dips the bow - and they were doing around 115 mph.
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Thanks Corribee but why was the driver on and off the pedal so much? There didn't seem to be much in the way of waves or wake to dip the bow for.
 
I'm afraid I only know as much as I read on the video! Perhaps at that speed a small wave or wake has big consequences.
It's a shame there wasn't a forward-pointing camera, which might have given a better sense of the speed.
 
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Thanks Corribee but why was the driver on and off the pedal so much? There didn't seem to be much in the way of waves or wake to dip the bow for.
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Everything is relative... At those speeds, allowing the bow to lift enough to grab too much air under the hull can mean an instant take-off! :nonchalance:
 
Nice video MM, can't help feeling the adrenalin rush just watching it. Maybe the passenger was relieved when it all slowed down :)

I reckon the tow vehicle, trailer and posing around the launching ramp/slipway is all a part of the overall scene as well.
 
Lulla-Belle said:
Nice lifejackets! what the chance of getting spat out of that and staying conscious:ambivalence:??
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Well, how high the chances are depends mostly on the helmsman, I reckon - and that folk in the video seems to know his stuff, fwiw.
Then again, you could as well raise the point of no helmet, no seat belts and no kill cord - as far as I can see.
Truth is, on a boat like that and at 100+ mph, the sunglasses and the swimsuit (which they are in fact wearing :)) are more useful than any sort of safety equipment.
At the end of the day, it's just a matter of whether you rate the adrenalin rush worth the risk or not.
'fiuaskme, with a driver that I trust, I'd be happy to give it a try.
But I can see why many folks wouldn't, of course.
 
That looks amazing!

By change I recently bumped into a vid ( a grim one) in which a more 'traditional' muscle boat caught another boats wake and was brought into a very abrupt halt/change of direction. As a result the helmsman and the passengers were slammed violently against the dash and the seat backs with what must have resulted in serious consequences. It really made me appreciate the risks involved with these boats, esp. in the hands of the less experienced.
 
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scubaman said:
That looks amazing!

By change I recently bumped into a vid ( a grim one) in which a more 'traditional' muscle boat caught another boats wake and was brought into a very abrupt halt/change of direction. As a result the helmsman and the passengers were slammed violently against the dash and the seat backs with what must have resulted in serious consequences. It really made me appreciate the risks involved with these boats, esp. in the hands of the less experienced.
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Yes, saw that video, half a dozen in the cockpit, a couple of girls at the front got thrown around like rag dolls.
 
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