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Originally Posted by Capt. Frank
Good lesson there in boat handling Gerry!
You have to power out of that to stay in control the slosh of the excess water to prevent capsizing. And stay like that.
That's all that works, aside from just dumb luck. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT.
Bow riders also have crap freeboard at the bow. And are heavier in the bow, meaning it responds SLOWER to meet steeper waves... stuff the bow.. perhaps pitch pole. Bad seakeeping boats in heavy water..
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Yes Frank... We were lucky that day and had the wherewithal to recover from a situation we should have never gotten ourselves into in the first place.
We saw Romer was working that day... Pipeline waves that are a surfers dream. We left the engines running and were doing short drifts and turning around before we hit the breakers.... On that drift we got distracted from catching Stripers and the next thing you know, we were in the thick of it.
Saw the first one coming and manged to straighten the boat out and get square with the first wave which crashed on us and here comes 2 more which we managed to punch through with some power.
Scary situation for sure....
