Those Markers Are There For A Reason....

[Bobcat]

Someone's spending a few hours til high tide ,pic from a month ago off of Calder Channel:willy_nilly:

 

[Ratickle]

I was reading somewhere that Buzzi holds the record for running aground. SOmething like 155mph when he hit????

 

[Bobcat]

I remember one of the Cougar cat's running aground while waiting to race.

 

[Ratickle]

Touted as the fastest ever grounding.....


Fabio Buzzi has now outdone them all by grounding at the highest speed ever recorded: 155 mph.


Last year, Buzzi won the Pavia to Venetia race down the River Po in his gas turbine-powered hydroplane after trying for 30 years. This year, he entered the same boat and set off down the river as part of a fleet of more than 50 boats. For the tricky navigation, he was using a Navionics chartplotter with specially developed maps, but on one leg, the sun was shining on the screen and he could not read the chart. When he tried to take a shortcut across the river, he hit a sandbar, traveling over 80 feet of it before coming to rest, high and dry.


I guess he had a bunch of guys lift it off the sandbar, ran it to the next available dock, but it was too bad to continue......

 

[rschap1]

Just watch the charts

 

[Ratickle]

Just watch the charts

Probably hard to see at 155.......