Re: GPS is not Radar
Re:"I'm curious re: the distinctive sound. Don't bass boats use the same outboard engines used by other boats ?"
Once you have heard a few thousand boats go by, you will understand the sound of a Bass boat. Its not so much the engine as it is the sound to speed ratio. A high-end bass boat is a well engineered craft that is lousy getting out of the hole, and at speed, has very little hull in the water so goes very fast per RPM. In fog, you can easily identify the sound of a bass boat trying to get up to planing speed, then falling back to plow configuration when the fog gets thick. Lots of noise and not much motion. Love em or hate em - but you can be pretty sure of it when you hear one. -lg
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