Just got off the phone with a friend from NJ, telling me of a major incident involving the Mystic Cat, turbine boat, "My Way'. Initial report, all are OK. Some up there are saying the boat almost flipped, high in the air, and hit hard two times. Confirmed, PORT side from the cockpit to the transom, just about gone.
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08-11-2012 08:49 PMrumor mill ( Facebook) turbine let loose, I guess we will have to wait til the real story of what happened comes out.
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08-11-2012 11:36 PMGlad all are ok; coulda been a WAY different outcome.
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08-12-2012 07:22 AMSecond major incident with the boat in just over a month. Sure glad all are okay. Teague showed me that pic on his phone yesterday when he received it. We were concerned to say the least.
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08-12-2012 08:21 AMDamn.
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08-12-2012 11:29 AMJohn Cocker states "some cosmetic damage".
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08-12-2012 01:47 PMWith that said, can they get it ready for the Shootout in 2 weeks? Originally Posted by appsyscons
John Cocker states "some cosmetic damage".
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08-13-2012 09:07 AMEmbedded...
Wow, was close to being much worse.
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08-13-2012 09:15 AMGood job of getting it back under control....someone probably needed some new drawers after that
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08-13-2012 10:37 AMRead some debates about the cruiser wake that started it all...
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08-13-2012 03:40 PMWhat kind of debate?
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08-13-2012 05:03 PMHere's his spinout from a few weeks ago.
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08-13-2012 05:08 PMThere goes the old argument about cats not being able to turn very well !
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08-14-2012 09:18 AMWell, I guess that is one way to look at it..... Originally Posted by Bobcat
There goes the old argument about cats not being able to turn very well !
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08-14-2012 09:26 AMAs high as it went up on the third bounce they are extremely lucky, for the second time in a month or so, that they are still walking around.
And I did go read some of the stuff about boat wakes. What a bunch of crap. I suppose they would expect the ships, tugs, and barges to go no wake when they are on the water also? I can hear it now, "Hey, I want to go 200 on this river, you all need to slow down to no wake so I can do that".
Ever hear of running a race boat in a race? There is a reason that Geico ran their turbine boat in races and not poker runs.
The article that Matt wrote after their first incident obviously did not sink in at all. Maybe this incident will get them off the water permanently. If you look at the first spinout, supposedly at around 190MPH (but for sure based on witness reports over 160mph), if it had happened about 2 seconds earlier the people in the slow boat they buzzed would all be dead.
Here's how close they were to it being over on this incident. Ask the cat guys who have survived flips how close they were...
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08-14-2012 09:41 AMMostly revolved around who's fault this was... Originally Posted by Ratickle
Cruiser making the wake or driver going high speed over it...
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08-14-2012 10:53 AM Originally Posted by Bobcat
There goes the old argument about cats not being able to turn very well !I have been on the racecourse, longer than most, back when we had 22-26 boats in a class! Originally Posted by Ratickle
As high as it went up on the third bounce they are extremely lucky, for the second time in a month or so, that they are still walking around.
And I did go read some of the stuff about boat wakes. What a bunch of crap. I suppose they would expect the ships, tugs, and barges to go no wake when they are on the water also? I can hear it now, "Hey, I want to go 200 on this river, you all need to slow down to no wake so I can do that".
Ever hear of running a race boat in a race? There is a reason that Geico ran their turbine boat in races and not poker runs.
The article that Matt wrote after their first incident obviously did not sink in at all. Maybe this incident will get them off the water permanently. If you look at the first spinout, supposedly at around 190MPH (but for sure based on witness reports over 160mph), if it had happened about 2 seconds earlier the people in the slow boat they buzzed would all be dead.
Here's how close they were to it being over on this incident. Ask the cat guys who have survived flips how close they were...
I built 3 Skaters, currently own one of them, and have driven a bunch more.
Just to be clear, cats turn great!
I like to go extremely fast, so I do it on the racecourse, with a jacket, helmet, other safety
systems, and YES the course is closed, and with medical and response personnel in boats and in the air.
Lucky? This boat was a bazillion-th of a second away, from potentially killing everyone involved.
I am very glad no one was injured or killed.
Can you image, a family acting responsibly and enjoying a cruise on the water, being completely
devastated, in an accident, by one of these 'deep pocket' cowboys? Would we all be 'guilty' by association?
Would we all lose the privilege to responsibility enjoy our 'go-fast' boats?
Lets learn from this, and begin to take responsibility for our actions on the water, by acting responsibly.
If you want to own a 'race boat' and drive it at 'race' speeds, do it on the racecourse!
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