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Old 03-03-2005, 08:48 PM   #4
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Default A real deep deadrise is a good thing...

Your comfortable ride depends on what you need to do. My powerboat has too little deadrise to accomplish what this Baja 28 did -- in a minimum-wake zone.

This "driver" with 13 aboard (authorities think it was 13), "drives" his boat through $50,000 worth of condominium docks.

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"...I could hear screaming, so I jumped out of bed, and I saw a white boat, ... and there were people on the edge of it screaming,'' said David Wise, a condominium resident. A handful of passengers might have been catapulted overboard with the quick succession of impacts..."
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBPJ7XNX4E.html
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