Jeff Yammer wrote:
It's going to happen much more in the future if things continue as they are now. I'm no preacher but that shit in an uncontrolled environment is getting outta hand.
Why would you A shut the door on some one behind you or B try to be a hero and decide to cross a wake at that speed so close to the stern of the boat in front of you when you should know its like a ramp.
Very sorry for the families but its far from tragic. The word tragic should be used for an accident and not for poor choices.
That kind of stuff is why severe speed limits will eventually be imposed and make all HP boaters look irresponsible.
It's hard to say who was doing what...BECAUSE it was in an uncontrolled environment...there looks like there are pleasure boater in the mix there to so who knows if either boat was trying to avoid one of them. You are exactly right about this having HUGE implications on all boating if it continues. These are big boats that attact a lot of attention so the impact of an accident is much greater than two guys capsizing a canoe and not making it to shore. It's this type of thing that scares me about running fast on the lake in general...we've all had a scare...and an inch or mph one way or the other and our days may have been much different. Hitting a cruiser wake at 100mph in my boat would ruin my weekend....makes you think....
Not that it really matters at 160mph but what do these guys use for safety equipment? An open cockpit boat at that speed seems a bit agressive....
The whole poker run deal is going to have to change...even running 100+ with that many boats needs to be looked at and re-classified as a race. Get the cruisers and fishermen out of the way...then at least there's no one to point fingers at but the participants themselves.
