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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Watching the gf-bl's fly by on the crowded choppy lake the driver's eyesight ahead is not all that clear. The water is choppy, the boat is going fast, it's bouncing around, it's up on plane, there'a a big long hull ahead between the water and the driver. So, how good can the driver's eye of the water-road ahead be? Not all that great!
Many gf-bl's have special padded seats in a padded seat well, where the seat bottom electrically hinges down as the boat speeds up so the driver and passenger is standing and can us their legs-knees as a shock absorber and be 3/4 surrounded by an all-padded seat well. What they do is to drive these high speed 32' - 8000lb-1150hp gf-bl's while personally positioned in the security of their own little well-padded cell. Add in all the sunshine, heat, humidity, noise, music, chit-chat, and _______ to the the choppy waves and speed and it's understandable why seeing a kayak is not so easy.
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They are called bolster seats ..they dont go down as you speed up .. its an option to sit or stand
Have you ever heard of glasses or goggles ?? My eyes start to water at 20 mph, bugs, sun, everyone should be wearing eye protection while driving a boat at anything greater than headway speed ..as it is on motorcycles in this state! We kayak along the shore and in coves usually well out of the reach of power boats. Kayaking in the middle of a channel is just plain stupid.
Nonetheless its like a slalom course out here with all the canoes and kayaks