Bass boat 102mph crash

[Gumboot]

55 lb troller on a 21' boat.  Guess weight more important than function.

[moguy1973]

1 hour ago, Fish24/7 said:

Celebrate fist bump and then take off your pants ?? Glad that's where the video ends😱

 

Like I said, pants were probably full of poo. 😳

[fshndoug]

that is one way to get across the Rio Grande in a hurry

[Old plug]

We have  guy down here with 5 of those exact same engines of a boat.

 I live her on LOZ near a point and in 25 yers I have seen some really fast cigarette boats.  Late week though two guy came by there fishing for crappie in a brand new Jet boat first time out. It was 19ft long V TIN BOAT. The thing a jet propulsion larger and longer than  I ever seen  He fired it up and was fooling with the adjustment out in front of the dock. He went down to the point and turned upstream. When he put the hammer down that front of the boat never rose a inch the whole thing just came straight up onto of the water and disappeared around a bend about 1 mile up the lake as fast or faster than any Cigarette boat I have ever seen. 

 

 

 

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[Old dog 417]

On 4/30/2019 at 6:20 PM, liphunter said:

You know how it is when your young. I would have been right there. Now it's scary to watch!

And, no matter how many warnings we had or heard we just weren't listening....Had to try it for ourselves!  

Scary to think about!

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[kjackson]

That sorta reminds me of a time when I worked for Bass & Walleye Boats. We were on Table Rock at a media thing, testing various boats. For a Full Ride piece, we had to do fuel usage at various rpms as well as speed.  This particular boat was a new 20-foot Pro Craft with an "experimental" 300 hp Mercury on the back. 

It was on a Saturday with the lake fairly busy. My colleague was running the testing, and I was driving. We found about the quietest water we could and started the test, running at idle, 1000 rpms, 2000 and so on. Finally, we had to do the WOT test, and we hit 72mph over some pretty rough water from boat wakes when I looked at him, and he was up in the air, standing on the ball of one foot and holding the test equipment with one hand while grabbing for a handhold with the other.  I shut it down at that point--it scared the stuffing out of me.  I don't remember now if that piece ever did publish.

We didn't flip, but I'm not sure we wouldn't have.