Howdy everybody! I found this video on youtube, if you get caught in a similar situation, what would you do to get out of the trouble?
https://youtu.be/Ej8byDHhbSs
https://youtu.be/Ej8byDHhbSs
Looks like he lost power. Not much you can do in that situation. To get out of this trouble I would not have gone into that trouble in the first place...
Here's how to handle a power boat in the surf zone! Kapten boat collar helps, but this guy knows his stuff!!
He may have had the outboard raised because of the shallow water when the waves went by...breaking on an offshore bar.
If it was that shallow, I might have kept it raised it also.
Gunning it will force the transom down a tad.....but compared to the surf...and possibly bottoming out...it would be nothing I would worry about.
Gunning it once in the wave shot him up to the point of falling stern first and drowning the engine....too much power versus the slight angle of trim.
Plus the trim keeps the bow up a tad higher to get through the waves versus punching through all of them.
He wasn't trying to get on plane so again I disagree trim in this situation had any real effect. I still don't think the trim was all that much, just enough to keep the bow up out of the smaller waves.Hard to see how much power he has, but if that is a significant amount of hp, the trim angle is critical to getting the boat speed up. Clearly, he didn't have enough boat speed, due to his trim angle driving the stern down into the white water, slowing his forward progress and leading to swamping the boat.
Howdy everybody! I found this video on youtube, if you get caught in a similar situation, what would you do to get out of the trouble?
https://youtu.be/Ej8byDHhbSs
I don't disagree about throttle control.....I sad that all along.....it's the tilt discussion that I don't agree with....totally.
He almost ran over that surfer! [emoji35][/QUOTE]
Agreed, I think he may have had a reception committee waiting on shore to have a quiet little discussion. I doubt whether he would have received much sympathy.