What just happened in this boat crush?

[ATA]

I really didnt understand even I made it slow-motion.

 

And now I saw this ?

 

[Bird]

Whole bunch of things wrong.

Inexperienced boat operator, boat likely exceeding weight limit,

Up on plane while passengers are standing.

Operator never slowed down to navigate the wake.

Hope no one was seriously injured.

[Tackleholic]

Something in the steering mechanism may have failed, good thing the boat operator had the kill switch attached.  Other strong possibility is that he was looking forward, but his mental focus was on the contents of those two bikinis behind and beside him.

[casts_by_fly]

watching the video it looks like he was coming across some wakes parallel to the wake.  You can see that in the way that the boat is rolling and from the way the wakes look off to the side behind the boat (other boats, not his).  At 2:15 you can see the woman in the front (green/yellow) grabbing on tight and looking out ahead.  She can see wakes or something coming up and grips down.  At 2:19 they hit a wake on their port that causes the first pitch to starboard.    I think he didn't quarter into it hard enough and combined with the speed that was enough for it to feel like a brick wall.  In the same time point, as the starboard side is low, you can look at the water to the side/behind and see just how much wake there is there.  It looks like 2' to me.  A second later the boat pitches back to port flinging everyone to the port side of the boat and taking the driver off the wheel.  When they hit the next little wake, the motor gets turned and that spins the boat.  I assume he was clipped to a kill switch since the boat stopped, though his lack of PFD (and all of his passengers) makes me question that assumption.  As the boat goes through the spins and stops you can look in the background and see a couple other boats in the not so distance.

 

The above is the best I can analyze factually.  Now for my interpretation of all of that.  He was out with friends for a good time and pushing the boat fairly hard.  Its a Fountain 38 and will top out over 90 mph, not that he was going that fast.  There was some congestion on the lake and probably come competing wakes at odd angles.  I suspect he was trying to thread between two boats and that's why he didn't cross the wakes at more of an angle.  That's also why it was such a violent correction after the first pitch to starboard.  I won't assume he's a new boater, but he should have slowed down to get through the skinny bit and wakes, if for no other reason than passing other boats at that speed without enough distance isn't safe in itself.  

 

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

Dang. Ol Trev face planted perty hard. 

[airshot]

Classic example of excess speed and minimal operator experience!!

[Deleted account]

12 hours ago, ATA said:

What just happened in this boat crush?

 

Dumba$$ happened. It goes downhill fast once the bikini clad teen breaks a nail...

[GaryH]

4 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

watching the video it looks like he was coming across some wakes parallel to the wake.  You can see that in the way that the boat is rolling and from the way the wakes look off to the side behind the boat (other boats, not his).  At 2:15 you can see the woman in the front (green/yellow) grabbing on tight and looking out ahead.  She can see wakes or something coming up and grips down.  At 2:19 they hit a wake on their port that causes the first pitch to starboard.    I think he didn't quarter into it hard enough and combined with the speed that was enough for it to feel like a brick wall.  In the same time point, as the starboard side is low, you can look at the water to the side/behind and see just how much wake there is there.  It looks like 2' to me.  A second later the boat pitches back to port flinging everyone to the port side of the boat and taking the driver off the wheel.  When they hit the next little wake, the motor gets turned and that spins the boat.  I assume he was clipped to a kill switch since the boat stopped, though his lack of PFD (and all of his passengers) makes me question that assumption. 

 

 

☝️☝️☝️ more power than talent. Consider what could have happen they were very lucky.

[VolFan]

It looked like he throttled it all the way back a split second before it went horrible. 

[Hammer 4]

14 hours ago, Bird said:

Whole bunch of things wrong.

Inexperienced boat operator, boat likely exceeding weight limit,

Up on plane while passengers are standing.

Operator never slowed down to navigate the wake.

Hope no one was seriously injured.

^^^ Dude is a Dumba$$ for driving like that..

[WRB]

The boat looks like a multi (twin ) engine racer and taking the girls out for ride. Everything going OK until the driver decide a higher speed thrill ride and bow hooked a big wake nearly ejecting him out of the boat.

Accident waiting to happen and lucky someone didn’t get seriously injured. The driver may have been injured?

Booze....probably.

Tom 

[rangerjockey]

I believe that amateur boat driving lesson took place on our own Lake of the Ozarks years ago.

I think the biggest reason LOZ outproduces Table Rock and Bull Shoals is because they don't get the pressure on them between Memorial Day and Labor Day because no one in their right mind would get out there among those jack Wagons. 

[Bankbeater]

1 hour ago, rangerjockey said:

I believe that amateur boat driving lesson took place on our own Lake of the Ozarks years ago.

I think the biggest reason LOZ outproduces Table Rock and Bull Shoals is because they don't get the pressure on them between Memorial Day and Labor Day because no one in their right mind would get out there among those jack Wagons. 

Bingo^^.

[Tatulatard]

The driver was bald.  It happens.

[Way2slow]

Fast boat with lack of driver experience.  Looks like he tried to take a wake at an angle which pitched the boat and then he panicked and chopped the throttle at high speed, BIG NO!NO!.  Chopping the throttle on a high-speed boat up on the pad makes the front of the hull bite hard and the boat want to do a bat turn.  That's where the boat wants to do a U-turn immediately. Doing that on good water is dangerous, doing while out of control going over a wake can be deadly.  More than one person has been ejected from a boat doing that.

 

[Way2slow]

For the lack of something to do I looked up his boat, the Fountain 38 Lightning.  It only runs in the 90's and with an optional engine package, over 100, and only burns 90 gallons per hour at top speed.  At the price of marina gas, that's only about $7 a minute.  2014 Fountain 38 Lightning (topspeed.com)

[Captain Phil]

Too much money with too few brains.  How would he have felt if the girls had been seriously hurt?  My bet is he didn't have a life jacket for each passenger either. His Daddy needs to cut off his trust account.

[Darth-Baiter]

That crash is difficult to watch.  He got tossed like a rag doll!  

[Way2slow]

At least he stayed in boat.  A friend of mine let his friend drive his 98-mph Shadow VT200 and when he chopped the throttle like that, it threw him through the side of the body.  He survived with some broken ribs and a big hole in the side of friend's boat.  Now, the shadow VT200 is a very light hull layup, and weighs less than 1,000 pounds for a 20' boat.  Like I said, it's basically an instant about face.

[HenryPF]

Do we not all watch Haulover Inlet youtube channels to see guys with up to FIVE 400HP Mercs spear waves? HP doesn't equal lack of experience when it comes to driving.

 

I bought a deep-v to take white capped waves, up to 2ft. I learned at 40mph the boat cruises through them easily, dry ride. However I also learned that day that my kidneys however cannot take the pounding. I go like 30ish on the calmest days. I'm not an idiot and don't like being wet.

[Woody B]

Regardless of their intent it was stupid.  Were they trying to re create the Family Guy video?   They were dressed like, and standing in the same positions as the Family Guy video.  

[PaulVE64]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

Regardless of their intent it was stupid.  Were they trying to re create the Family Guy video?   They were dressed like, and standing in the same positions as the Family Guy video.  

I think the Family Guy video is just a small clip of a much larger series of videos  being suppressed by the government.

I've heard it predicts the end of American democracy.