A review of the boat after the accident shows drives trimmed way up, and tabs up. Watching the video does show him trimming the drives and tabs before the accident, but there is no way to know how much time was edited out of the video.
And I'm not so sure Bobcat didn't hit the nail on the head when it comes to throttle location in comparison to the driver. The driver is an experienced racer from the old F-2 days. I however do not know if he drove or throttled and am finding out. Either way, he should have known how to read the water. The boat spinning out may have been the result of the throttles being pulled all the way back while it appears the boat was in the air. In a stepped hull, landing on a quartering boat wake, usually all over if that was the actual sequence.
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09-03-2012 08:49 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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09-03-2012 08:54 AMAnother of LOTO water after the Shootout on Saturday....
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09-03-2012 09:17 AM
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09-04-2012 08:37 AMIt is extremely surprising to me the accident report calls the injuries minor or moderate. I'd call a couple of them pretty severe.
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09-04-2012 10:10 PM
That vid just went mainstream and viral...look for some politicians to get involved.
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09-05-2012 07:09 PM
They WERE in the poker run
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09-06-2012 07:36 AMThe driver happens to be a friend of two different friends. The injuries are real. The lady that part is referencing was taken to the hospital almost immediately by her husband instead of getting treatment there.
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09-06-2012 07:39 AMIt was the storm stoppage of the shootout. Everybody was leaving at the same time and the place was packed with boats. We have the same thing here fater fireworks at Coast Guard in Grand Haven. We stopped taking a boat to it because of the issues. For the most part I thought he did pretty good. There were a couple others at the fringes of his Go Pro that I'm not to sure about though.
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09-06-2012 11:33 AM
I get what you are saying Paul, and I wasn't there so I won't guess.
It just seemed that he was hitting it pretty hard and almost like his goal was to get out in front. Maybe it was just the video that made it seem like he was closing on everybody, whether port or SB, and crossing wakes just to pass people. Whatever. To each his own. Just wondered if it seemed that way to anybody else, I guess.
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09-06-2012 11:47 AMWhenever another boat that seemed of similar caliber was around, he definitely pushed harder. I was just saying there were so many boats, I'm not sure there was much choice as to running close to others.
The goal is almost always to get out front....
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09-07-2012 09:29 AMMore LOTO water vids.
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09-07-2012 09:30 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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09-07-2012 09:32 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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09-07-2012 11:17 AM
hate to state the obvious, but the still photo, boat aground is not the 38' fountain in the video ,otherwise been there done that, not proud of it.
play the fast boat game long enough and fast enough,and that dog will bite you one bad call is all it takes, i don't care who you are. driver error, umbilicals should have been in place case closed.
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09-08-2012 11:13 AMThe other vids I've put up is just to show the water conditions of the lake immediately after the shootout was called due to the storms moving in. When a 50' Meteor stuffs, that's some fairly big water.
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09-08-2012 11:16 AMI like this one with the camera out on the bow..
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09-08-2012 11:21 AMOf course, there are other things that are dangerous besides rough water!!!!
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