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Originally Posted by FormulaOutlaw
Maybe I should rename this thread: Let's argue more about speed limits.
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...And this thread was assumed to go...
Where?
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Originally Posted by Audiofn
As for the Soaring 70 feet in the air. Don't you think that anyone that would account for a situation like that would have to be discredited as not having any idea what they are talking about? The top of my house is only 17 feet to the peak..."
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Everybody
else is wrong?
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Originally Posted by St. Petersburg Times
"...So plenty of boaters were watching at 2 p.m. when Parker's boat hit a wake 1 mile south of the Gandy Bridge, caught air and rolled to the left before landing upright...."
"...'It is hard to understand why these individuals were traveling at such a high rate of speed,' witness Michael Smith told investigators 'They could have hurt or killed other boaters.'..."
"... Sears, who was sitting beside Parker as he drove, told Manson the boat went about 70 feet into the air after it hit the wake...."
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I witnessed a 25-foot Donzi "soar" last summer -- and reported it on this Forum. One of my gauges was a 31-foot-tall mast. The "soar", near shore, easily exceeded twice the Donzi's length. I "caught" the soar -- near the 24-foot-missile's apogee -- when a family member suddenly gasped and pointed at it.
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Originally Posted by Mee'n'Mac
"I don't want to start another "war" over this point and I've said this in other forms before so I'll say it just this once more...Of the two (head-on or overtaking) I further say the latter is the easiest collision to avoid. So easy that even [****]'s defense must have figured it out and came up with the lights out story so as to give their client an "out"..."
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1) Why didn't the defense select the "I-couldn't-see-over-the-22-foot-bow-on-my-36-foot-Baja-offshore-because-my-trim-tabs-and-my-drives-were-misadjusted-at-night" Theory?
Because they
sell GFBLs?
2) At the calculated <30MPH, or <20MPH net, why weren't the boat or passengers struck by GFBL propellers?
3)What
normally happens when a "slow" impact from a multi-ton boat overwhelms a one-ton 24-footer?
4) If he "soared" after striking an errant
wake (at a speed we can't even imagine), wouldn't that account for the reduced impact "appearance"?
Even Physics can't answer those questions:
reenactment is the only resolution.
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Originally Posted by Audiofn
"...Unfortunately the boat sank before we got there...and took the owner down with it...The guy was a very famous drag car guy "Johnny Nitrous"...I saw this accident and I still drive my boat as often as I can. It was a sobering thing to watch a man die ...but accidents do happen on the water.
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Here's something edifying about
one who has the "risk-taker-mentality":
Johnny Nitrous:
I forget what they say about Karma.
