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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
...And this thread was assumed to go... Where?
Everybody else is wrong?
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.
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.
Here's something edifying about one who has the "risk-taker-mentality": Johnny Nitrous:
I forget what they say about Karma.
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Acres, your first comment is EXACTLY what I, and many others, are talking about. This Thread wasn't designed to go ANYWHERE. That's the point. That's why you "never get it". You are constantly takng a subject around Robin Hood's barnyard in a lame effort to have people join you in your abstract points of view. If you ever bothered to take the time and actually make an effort to understand what some of us state here, you might realize water runs downhill.
So one witness states that he can't understand why people would want to go that fast. Now isn't that just reason enough to chain all of us to the docks.....The good thing is that "he doesn't have to understand" why some of us might want to go faster than others. It's not his business. Nor yours.
Chris Parker's accident was just that, a tragic accident. People also get killed at 35 mph, or 60 mph, or 25 mph, and every speed in between. And many of them are just bad luck accidents. Not all, but many. Or some. Or whatever. I'm on the Board of Directors for the boat club that Chris was a member of. He was the first member to be killed in a boating accident. We ALL took it very hard. We know what happened. We have tried to learn from it. We HAVE learned from it. But we still like to go fast, RESPONSIBLY.
Not all the time, but when we safely can, and we have the "want". Whether you understand that or not, I could care less, but stop preaching the sky is falling. Like a friend of mine pointed out: I don't particularly care for the clanking of lanyards or lines, or whatever the sailboat crowd call the, against aluminum masts when docked. But I certainly am not going to complain about it. It's not my business. Those people are enjoying what they enjoy and I have no right whatsoever to discourage those people. NOR DO YOU...
You don't like us fine. You don't like our boats fine. But get off our backs.