Stupid boat people

[Melnic]

You can learn a lot from other people's mistakes, especially dumb ar$es.

Often at lunch I watch a couple boat channels that show boats going through inlets and the stupid stuff people do.
Here is one.
I own or have owned a variety of watercraft in the past 20 years but NEVER wanted a muscle boat.
Its like how BMW owners go to a special seminar to be an A-hole driver, Muscle boaters often go to a seminar on how to be a dumb Arse



Watch the guy at 4:45 and how he handles the little boat and the following seas perfectly.
Even the guy right after him in the Intrepid, is not thinking about impressing someone with speed and handles his throttle correctly

 

[willtill]

Yes, that little boat navigated the inlet much smoother.

Those penis boats are awesome when your trucking across less disturbed waters though.

 

[E.Shell]

More money than brains.

 

[SkiPatrolDude]

I know a couple go-fast boaters that are great folks. Would fit right in over here on MDS. But yes, plenty of rich D bags that get these fast boats just to be reckless.

Ever been 100mph on the bay? Bring a change of pants.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

HAHA@ change of pants

 

[willtill]

I haven’t been at 100mph on the Chesapeake, but I’ve hit 49-52mph on smooth, glasslike conditions with my 23’ Key West cuddy with a 200hp Johnson hanging off the transom. There are times in my life I truly enjoyed being alive, and in that Key West there were quite a few of them, in those smooth surface conditions.

I miss me boat.

 

[t84a]

We have more than our share of stupid boaters here in OCMD. I see it almost daily.

 

[Melnic]

We have more than our share of stupid boaters here in OCMD. I see it almost daily.

Was that you that was looking at working the bay hopper?

 

[t84a]

No. I run a tiki boat out of Fish Tales a couple times a week.

 

[JohnnyE]

I know a couple go-fast boaters that are great folks. Would fit right in over here on MDS. But yes, plenty of rich D bags that get these fast boats just to be reckless.

Ever been 100mph on the bay? Bring a change of pants.

There's a time and a place for everything. Routinely ran 85 MPH on a Kawasaki 2-seat jet ski back in the 2-stroke days on the water between Longboat Key and Fla mainland between Bradenton and Sarasota...out in the gulf itself, not so much.

 

[ChannelCat]

An outgoing tide opposing an stiff offshore wind in an inlet? No thanks. I would have checked the weather conditions beforehand, $hit-canned going offshore, and would have been drifting for flounder in the back bay. Those inlets are nothing to trifle with, even in ideal conditions. And yes, we see more dumb-a$$es in large boats off of Thomas Point than I care to remember.

 

[Melnic]

No. I run a tiki boat out of Fish Tales a couple times a week.

Ahh, Cougar patrol.

 

[adit]

Blue Top Legend.

 

[llkoolkeg]

I need a kidney belt to even watch the videos of these overly-indulged rich pricks.

 

[zoostation]

Not a boater but some of those more severe drops look like a good way to get spinal compression injuries.

 

[Jake4now]

I hope one day to be a boat person, stupid or otherwise.

 

[outrider58]

I speared through a wave in my bass boat once. I learnt a lot about trim v speed v boat length that day.

 

[mpollan1]

I hope one day to be a boat person, stupid or otherwise.

Just befriend a boat person. Treat him/her right with gas money and post outing cleanup. You'll thank me later...

 

[TI-tick]

There is a new vid with two people getting ejected from an airborne inverted speed boat, but I can't get that to post.

I did find this oldie...
FF to about 2 mins for the money shot.
I'm not seeing much fun with this...

 

[hobiecat590]

I prefer a broad reach on West River in front of a cold front and line of T-storms, flat water, Hobie 16 double trapeeze, going 26+kts, 9 ft rooster tails of the rudders that are humming and on the very edge of disaster, (ie pitchpolling at 26 kts on a trapeeze is like going 26 to 0 in 1 second.). Going almost twice as fast in my Sea Hawk on flat water is fun but does not have quite the same thrill factor. Going only 10kts in a 3-4' Bay chop in the Hawk will beat the crap out of your back but is very comfortable at trolling speeds. Whatever makes your boat float. :-)