Bass Boat Crash

[frogtog]

Found this while rambling, check it out. ( Always Life Vest and Kill Switch )

[South FLA]

Lucky the guy is alive, life vest and kill switches are life savers  !  Negative trimming, less speed, and a steeper approach angle  to wake would have helped prevent the disaster.

[Bassn Blvd]

Life jackets and kill switches doesn't mean you can act stupid though.

[Tin]

Another person driving something they probably shouldn't be. Anyone notice how bad it was chiming in some of the shots? No sympathy for him.

[Long Mike]

Life jackets and kill switches doesn't mean you can act stupid though.

Unfortunately, there is no cure for STOOPID.  His mother must have insisted on the PFD and kill switch.

[Glenn]

2 mistakes caused that accident:

1. He approached the 1st wake at the wrong angle.  Ideally, you should approach it perpendicular.  At the very least, some sort of angle.  But he was practically parallel, which made him land at a weird angle approaching the 2nd wake.

2.  ALWAYS trim down and slow down a bit when crossing big wakes.  He just went for it at full throttle, giving everyone a vivid demonstration of why you need to trim down and slow down.

[cart7t]

Yikes. Graphic illustration right at the end of a boat bow hooking.

RW and I were crossing KY lake the last morning of the road trip. There was a tailing SW wind blowing some decent 2' or so rollers in the main lake. Not a big deal usually but after I came off one roller the bow came down onto the next and bit. I suddenly felt the rear end of the boat go light, I was able to tweak the wheel right to make the correction but it did kind of throw us in the boat. Had I been going faster it would've been an incident.

I'm not sure Kent realized what had just happened.

A mans got to not only know his limitations but the limitations of his equipment and respect that. Or wind up banged up like that guy and looking very stoopid or worse.

[moby bass]

He was in the water for 10 minutes??? :-? The guys videotaping didn't come to his rescue? They were right there.  There's enough stupidity there to go around.

[=Matt 5.0=]

Two words come to mind right off the bat....

"Owned"...and "Fail"

[Bull Hurley]

Another person driving something they probably shouldn't be. Anyone notice how bad it was chiming in some of the shots? No sympathy for him.

Dito

[Matt Fly]

I gotta say stupid would have been no lifejacket and no kill switch.   It looks like performance testing gone very bad.

If I cross someones wake, its at a distance, and I'll trim down to get more boat setting on the water to maintain more positive control.

   At that speed, and trimmed up to where the boat only rides on inches, it don't take much to upset the boat as seen.

       Guys lucky to have not broken his neck.    

 

   

     

[CJ]

I couldn't see the brand of boat he was driving but it looked like a piece of crap the way it handled. Acted very light. Didn't look like the best captain either. I think his first mistake was getting behind the wheel. He looked to be a newbie.

[Root beer]

Notice how it said he was in water for 10 minutes. Maybe that because the video camera operator let him float in water for 10 minutes. :

If you witness something like that, would you just leave the guy floating in the water? He could have had a busted head and bled out, then the PFD wouldn't have mattered.

[Siebert Outdoors]

it looks like a showboater that just got schooled by lack of experience.  Once I started watching the video, I could tell the guy couldnt drive a fast boat.  Just looked like an accident waiting to happen.  Hit the wake and I knew he was done.  Never slowed or never adjusted the motor.  Full bore the whole time.

[fourbizz]

LMAO.

[harshman]

Hope someone was holding his sign so he didn't loose it.....

[cart7t]

I couldn't see the brand of boat he was driving but it looked like a piece of crap the way it handled. Acted very light. Didn't look like the best captain either. I think his first mistake was getting behind the wheel. He looked to be a newbie.

Uhh.... if you read the comments, around page 2 a couple people involved in that video state it's a..... uh.........  LEgend.  

[Fish Chris]

Holy $#!+ ! That guys lucky to be alive.

All the more reason I don't need a high-per bass boat. I risk my arse enough on the road every day. I go fishing to relax, have fun, and catch fish. And I've never caught a bass going more than 1 mph or so.

Fish

[CJ]

I couldn't see the brand of boat he was driving but it looked like a piece of crap the way it handled. Acted very light. Didn't look like the best captain either. I think his first mistake was getting behind the wheel. He looked to be a newbie.

Uhh.... if you read the comments, around page 2 a couple people involved in that video state it's a..... uh......... LEgend.

Yup I see that now. Totally different boat than the new ones though.

[cart7t]

I couldn't see the brand of boat he was driving but it looked like a piece of crap the way it handled. Acted very light. Didn't look like the best captain either. I think his first mistake was getting behind the wheel. He looked to be a newbie.

Uhh.... if you read the comments, around page 2 a couple people involved in that video state it's a..... uh......... LEgend.

Yup I see that now. Totally different boat than the new ones though.

I believe that was the Viper/Cobra/Hawk/Legend hull that John Storey had designed after he left Champion.

That hull, which was the same with all those boats I just listed was a modified Ranger 481V that he had modified.