BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - 33 Foot Boat sinks off Key West While Pulling Anchor From Stern

JustWait

On 12/30/2011 6:39 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:49:52 -0800, "Steve
wrote:

wrote

This must just be a Pinellas County thing. We have had two of these in
a couple years. (the football guys)
I assume you watched this in the news too. The mate said the rode
"snapped back" implying it dragged the boat backward and down.
They must have really had a strain on it, probably taking a running
start.
It really sounds like a roadrunner cartoon to me.

In high school, a noted hot rodder put a big V8 in a racing hull. We all
went to the lake to watch him. He made several fast passes, some turns,
then headed towards the dock at medium speed. At the NO WAKE buoy, he
snapped the throttle back. And the wave swamped the transom, sinking the
boat in about 25 feet of water.

I wonder why there are few licenses required to own high powered boats.

Steve

Many years ago a friend of mine had a [factory] jet boat with a Chevy
454. It was the same way, he never sunk it, but he couldn't pull off
an appreciable amount of power quickly without a foot high stern wave
drenching everybody in the aft seats.

That just brought back a memory of the boat the family up the street had
when I was a kid (they were considered "rich" even in our town back
then). They had an 18 foot boat with dual 454's. Yep, it was green, had
Batmobile type front windscreens, fins on the back and went like a
frekin' bat out of hell. I remember the boat was called a "Spoiler". Not
sure if that was the manufacturer, or the model. I remember there were
supposedly a very limited number of these boats made though. We used to
wake board behind it at Congamond Lake in Mass...