Boat vs Plane on The Broads

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1) I stopped using that ramp in recent decades, as traffic had little safety concern for boaters using that ramp. Have changes been made?

If any place needed a traffic light, this was it!

2) Doesn't EVERYBODY navigate The Broads at 111 kph with one hand on the wheel?

3) The video is directly north of Winter Harbor, showing Rattlesnake Island and Diamond Island in the background. (Site of the Big Lake's most recent--and most consequential--fatality).

This tunnel-hull speedster doesn't understand Irony!

Originally Posted by rsmlp

driving a boat over 100 mph practically beneath a seaplane that's about 50-100 ft off the water is stupid and dangerous. and them making a video of it? wow, indeed.

Maybe that speed is registering in knots.

That floatplane pilot has probably never viewed the many YouTube "compliations" that show tunnel-hull ocean-racers flipping two-to-three times its length into the air before crashing upside-down with the usual disastrous consequences.

It doesn't take much to upset a "surface-effect" speedboat, as we've seen these ocean-racers, "Can't see kayaks"!