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Just ran across this and curious if anyone knows this boat.
[video=youtube_https;zUYAKVWuk44]https://youtu.be/zUYAKVWuk44[/video]
 

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"Is that supposed to be like that?"



WTF? lol
 

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Looks like someone wore out a perfectly good boat.
 

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guy swirved to miss a jet ski... it's vented bottom hallett
 

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from 2010.
If its still there, it will be way up higher on the cliff. lol.
 

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Fred Inman's son's boat. Yeah dumb ass jet ski operator.
 

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Vented bottom 290 hallett, Guy made an evasive manuever to miss a dumbass on a jetski that normally would have been no problem but the boat spun out, ejected all the passengers and ran up the rocks. I know the owner/driver very well, we went to school together, also one of the passengers on the boat is one my closets friends (who went to school with us as well), along with his girlfriend. Another one of my customers also had an almost identical setup 290 that spun out at 35 mph on mead, these were not amateur boaters, long time ski racers, they sold it and bought a regular 270. They didn't make that model for very long, and redesigned the bottom.... There is still pending litigation going on blah blah blah, two of the other passengers were flight for lifed with internal injuries. Scary deal. Also lawsuits between some of the passengers and the owner, and Hallett, etc, etc.... There was pretty much consensus from everyone who i had spoken to that drove this model that it was not forgiving and very touchy, i personally never drove or even rode in one.


All i can say about this beyond that is think about who you are letting on your boat, because when something like this happens, even if no one is seriously hurt, you still run the chance of being sued by people who you thought were your friends, you could possibly lose everything you've worked for because of ambulance chasers.... Scary deal for sure.
 

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Vented bottom 290 hallett, Guy made an evasive manuever to miss a dumbass on a jetski that normally would have been no problem but the boat spun out, ejected all the passengers and ran up the rocks. I know the owner/driver very well, we went to school together, also one of the passengers on the boat is one my closets friends (who went to school with us as well), along with his girlfriend. Another one of my customers also had an almost identical setup 290 that spun out at 35 mph on mead, these were not amateur boaters, long time ski racers, they sold it and bought a regular 270. They didn't make that model for very long, and redesigned the bottom.... There is still pending litigation going on blah blah blah, two of the other passengers were flight for lifed with internal injuries. Scary deal. Also lawsuits between some of the passengers and the owner, and Hallett, etc, etc.... There was pretty much consensus from everyone who i had spoken to that drove this model that it was not forgiving and very touchy, i personally never drove or even rode in one.


All i can say about this beyond that is think about who you are letting on your boat, because when something like this happens, even if no one is seriously hurt, you still run the chance of being sued by people who you thought were your friends, you could possibly lose everything you've worked for because of ambulance chasers.... Scary deal for sure.

what gets me is why did they fuck with this boat???


[video=youtube;5OGtmXvzX0E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGtmXvzX0E[/video]



[video=youtube;IKYjFmZQQM0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYjFmZQQM0[/video]
 

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what gets me is why did they fuck with this boat???


[video=youtube;5OGtmXvzX0E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGtmXvzX0E[/video]

I asked myself the same question. They will still build a new one of those, without steps, if you want though :thumbup: :p

If it aint broke, fuck with it till it is....


There is a reason the same 21' Schiada you could buy in 1975 is the same exact one you can buy new today.....
 

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Vented bottom 290 hallett, Guy made an evasive manuever to miss a dumbass on a jetski that normally would have been no problem but the boat spun out, ejected all the passengers and ran up the rocks. I know the owner/driver very well, we went to school together, also one of the passengers on the boat is one my closets friends (who went to school with us as well), along with his girlfriend. Another one of my customers also had an almost identical setup 290 that spun out at 35 mph on mead, these were not amateur boaters, long time ski racers, they sold it and bought a regular 270. They didn't make that model for very long, and redesigned the bottom.... There is still pending litigation going on blah blah blah, two of the other passengers were flight for lifed with internal injuries. Scary deal. Also lawsuits between some of the passengers and the owner, and Hallett, etc, etc.... There was pretty much consensus from everyone who i had spoken to that drove this model that it was not forgiving and very touchy, i personally never drove or even rode in one.


All i can say about this beyond that is think about who you are letting on your boat, because when something like this happens, even if no one is seriously hurt, you still run the chance of being sued by people who you thought were your friends, you could possibly lose everything you've worked for because of ambulance chasers.... Scary deal for sure.
Thank you for fulfilling my curiosity. All the best to the parties involved.[emoji106]
 

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Vented bottom 290 hallett, Guy made an evasive manuever to miss a dumbass on a jetski that normally would have been no problem but the boat spun out, ejected all the passengers and ran up the rocks. I know the owner/driver very well, we went to school together, also one of the passengers on the boat is one my closets friends (who went to school with us as well), along with his girlfriend. Another one of my customers also had an almost identical setup 290 that spun out at 35 mph on mead, these were not amateur boaters, long time ski racers, they sold it and bought a regular 270. They didn't make that model for very long, and redesigned the bottom.... There is still pending litigation going on blah blah blah, two of the other passengers were flight for lifed with internal injuries. Scary deal. Also lawsuits between some of the passengers and the owner, and Hallett, etc, etc.... There was pretty much consensus from everyone who i had spoken to that drove this model that it was not forgiving and very touchy, i personally never drove or even rode in one.


All i can say about this beyond that is think about who you are letting on your boat, because when something like this happens, even if no one is seriously hurt, you still run the chance of being sued by people who you thought were your friends, you could possibly lose everything you've worked for because of ambulance chasers.... Scary deal for sure.

So true. The 36 had similar issues. A friend of a friend's wife won't even come out anymore since being thrown from there 36. I don't get why Nick and Jerry don't just continue to build Bud's proven designs. Michael Peter's pocketed a solid amount to design the V2D.
 

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[video=youtube;4pFVp4iuLNk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFVp4iuLNk[/video]
 

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Wonder if there's any decent engine parts on it...
 

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Just so there's no confusion, the 290-S Hallett with the V2D bottom is a second generation model of the 290-S and quite a different bottom than the original 290 which had the problem at Lake Mead. And the 360-T Hallett model is no longer available or in production.
 

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I see the step hull vultures are out.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to hook or spin out straight hull boats.
 

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I see the step hull vultures are out.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to hook or spin out straight hull boats.

Any boat can hook or spin out. It's a matter of how easily and unpredictably it happens.

I haven't heard any stories of anyone spinning out a 270 conventional bottom, there are hundreds and hundreds of them out there. I've hooked some pretty hard turns in 270's and 240's doing pretty good speed and the boat never felt like it was even anywhere close to wanting to swap ends, both are very stable, and very predictable boats.

All 3 of the 290 model in question that i knew of spun out at one point or another. It's not vulturing, it's just fact.

Personally I wouldn't own a step hull on anything shorter than probably 35 feet. But this is coming from someone who likes v-drives above all, they offer the most positive connection to the water surface. My view does not have to be everyone elses.


As for that yellow boat on the rocks, they salvaged the boat, motor is sitting on a pallet at IMCO 3 doors down from my shop, i don't think they even opened it up. It ran until it died up dry on the rocks if i remember correctly.

Wear your kill switch lanyard.
 

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Any boat can hook or spin out.

Wear your kill switch lanyard.
If folks learn nothing else from this thread,learn this!!!
I've seen a few boats over the years from a few mfg's that were damaged not from spinning out,but because it kept going after the spin.
Not only leaves the occupants floating in the lake,but eventually that boat hits something...or someone.
Wear the kill switch lanyard!!!!
 

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If folks learn nothing else from this thread,learn this!!!
I've seen a few boats over the years from a few mfg's that were damaged not from spinning out,but because it kept going after the spin.
Not only leaves the occupants floating in the lake,but eventually that boat hits something...or someone.
Wear the kill switch lanyard!!!!

I was one of 5 of the 6 people ejected out of a friends boat in parker 12-13 years ago in febuary at night. We watched the boat go in circles a few times until my buddies wife who wasn't ejected shut the boat off. Scary feeling wondering if it was gonna come back and hit us. My boat was missing the lanyard when I bought it, it now has one for that very reason.
 

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I was one of 5 of the 6 people ejected out of a friends boat in parker 12-13 years ago in febuary at night. We watched the boat go in circles a few times until my buddies wife who wasn't ejected shut the boat off. Scary feeling wondering if it was gonna come back and hit us. My boat was missing the lanyard when I bought it, it now has one for that very reason.

The kill switch is one of those things you dismiss until you really need it, and then you'd give everything at that moment to have it.
 
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