3 killed in Tourney crash in Alabama

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2 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Yeah they are out there.  I've seen some pretty young drivers of wake boats and such too.  

Kids actually.   A guy in out condo association owns a wake boat company so we are wake central it seems.   I see lots of young teenagers driving them. 

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1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Fog on the Rock and fog on Taney are two totally different things. I mean totally. 

I never run in it on TR. No landmarks and totally denser.  Extremely Dangerous  

Guiding Taney for 25 years you can see thru it or around it 99.9 percent of the time.  Probably 100% of the time if your out there most everyday. 

In that 25 years I never came close to hitting or being hit while moving on plane in the fog. 

It’s super hard to explain but no matter the fog down there it posed zero hindrance as far as navigation to me. 

Phil can correct me on this but I really can’t remember a boat collision caused by the fog on Taney. There was a guy that hit the bank just above Short Creek one day but that’s it as far as this old man can remember.  Think of the latterly millions of boats that have operated there  

Another factor is a flat bottom Jon boat running at 20 mph is not like a Nitro running at 50 mph. You get off the gas on a Jon boat and it STOPS. 

Safety is the key for sure. I would never put my clients in danger.   On Taney it’s perspective, what might seem fast to someone may be reasonable to an expert. 

Let me state without question this has nothing to do with the idiot that was running that bass boat that struck the guide boat on Smith Lake. 

Two years ago when I first started playing Pickleball I was totally afraid to stand at the kitchen line. 35 year old men hitting a ball at me at 50 mph from 14’ away was a nightmare. 
The ball looked like a marble coming at me. 
It hurts when you get hit with it😁.

Now after 1000’s of games that PB looks like a beach ball coming at me from the same 14’ at the same speed.  Hope you can see the correlation. 

Terrible accident and I’m like Snagged, Bad place my rear. No excuse. Slow down. 










 

I’ve never heard of any accidents either but I’ve witnessed a bunch of screaming.  Most times you can see under the fog.   But 2 boats head on at 35-40 mph doesn’t leave a lot of room for error. One buzzed between me and the cooper dock last summer and everyone was screaming at the guy.   I still don’t know how he didn’t snag the lines of the people on the dock.  

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I found this MLF boat yesterday on the river.   About 20’ up😆

 

[Quillback]

People now saying there was no fog.  

[Bullshoalscat]

Several sources today say that there was no Fog at the time of the accident. It was some sort of blind corner, and the center console boat was sitting there, either fishing or trolling, when the tournament boat ramped  the center console. Prayers for All involved. 

[tjm]

Where did the earlier report of fog come from? I read a few of the news reports and none of them mentioned fog.

[Bill Babler]

Few years ago a terrible accident at Emerald Beach up the White. One person killed. That is without a doubt one of the blindest corners on TR. 

It’s at the ramp on the big curve down stream from Viney Creek. 

All the White River Rats know it well. When headed up stream please, please stay on the bluff side and don’t challenge that inside bend. 

I shudder every time I pass that location.