Posted on 09/05/2020 4:57:09 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
The weather was okay at the time. Lake Travis is a fairly large lake so normal waves can be difficult. The real problem comes from houseboats which create a huge swell, that is slow moving and deceptive. You don’t always see them coming and if a small boat hits one at the wrong angle it can be really bad. With so many boats in such a small area and house boats mixed in, it is possible that the swells were running all over at every angle. Even if you have operated a boat all your life, you can still be caught off guard if you haven’t experienced it before.
He’s a troller, and a sophomoric troller at that.
Proggies can’t meme, nor do parody.
The w is covered on his shirt.(s j _)
I’m guessing he’s a fudge packer, too.
Pretty much.
Uh, duh, I take that back...looked at his other tweets. Good troll, and got desired responses there.
Is that an emergency hole plug? Or some kind of hold drain plug?
Pretty sure that’s just humor. “... and starbird and a bunch of other Nautical terms happened and...”
Plus he is dry, with a dry towel around his neck!
“If I’m not wearing a mask, I’m damn sure not gonna put on that life vest they kept throwing at me.”
Summer weekend boaters.
They always keep the Coast Guard and Towboat services busy.
So now the plan is to judge presidential candidates by the ability of their supporters to control a boat?
That should work.
Saw someone launch his old wood boat once. He seemed to do everything like he hadn't done it in years. Wouldn't start, and he drained the battery trying, so he moved to the back of the boat and started pulling the pull rope, still trying to get it lit.
About the fourth pull, he went right through the bottom up to his waist. Dry rot...
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Please don't tell me I'm the only one thinking sabotage with these boat rally’s gaining momentum and all the advance publicity. Soros can coordinate antifa and country wide rioting but he can’t send a pre-planned scuba diver to make Trump supporters look bad?
You are not alone. Sabotage was my first thought.
Yes, it’s likely “harmonic” jumbo swells caught several skippers unawares.
We used to swing the tubers into them. Kowabunga! (We were early years tubers, used semi truck tubes with a ski handle wrapped and duct taped to it. Still had ski belts then.)
The current overall top speed belongs to, no surprise, the Onken Racing Team’s American Ethanol Mystic Powerboats catamaran, the overall Top Gun-winning boat for five straight years. An hour into the day, throttleman John Cosker, the founder of Mystic in DeLand, Fla., and driver Tony Battiato, of team sponsor Big Thunder Marine in Lake Ozark, rattled off its best speed of the day 202 mph. The team followed up with a 201 mph run after the course re-opened, and Cosker isn’t sure if the boat will run again tomorrow.
Our unlimited hydros on the Columbia River here are faster, but not much (at ends of straightaways), while racing on an oval course. Jet turbine powered, of course.
Since Kathy Griffin is giving him applause, I would say he’s a lefty.
That is first thing I thought of.
A number of good descriptions by the posters above of ways to sink a small boat, most of them preventable. One thing not mentioned though re. big boats and big wakes is that every boat is legally responsible for damage done by its wake. It can be construed as negligence if the wake from a large houseboat or cruiser whacks out another craft.
I saw a nice ski boat sink once on perfectly calm water. It was loaded heavy though then about 3 people stood on one side and the boat simply rolled a bit and the gunnel dipped under water. Literally it went from floating to submerged in seconds. All the passengers were in the water but thankfully wearing life jackets. Nearby boats had the people rescued before we could turn around and get to the scene to help. We did pick up flotsam debris to get the scene cleaned up some.
That 202 this year was his first run on the 3/4 mile course with speed measured by radar and he has to be under 40 mph starting into the 3/4 mile.
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