You can’t park there

[DanG]

I was there at the pool bar getting beers when it happened. In fact my son just moved his jet boat from that beach spot a couple minutes before this happened and can be seen at the end of the video with his shore spike in hand as he was setting his boat in the new spot.

Pretty much as Dave said, the guy had made a pass for the photographer and then made a U-turn to come back around and hit both sides of a big wake. Sounded like he hit the gas off the first wake and then it died coming off the second wake and he coasted all the way hitting the corner of the dock, smacking the cowling on the center console boat, and then slammed into the wall.

Thankfully no one was injured and all walked away. It was a busy day and there had also been some kids in the sand down on the beach shortly before this happened and like I said, my son had just moved his boat within minutes or this boat would have been sitting on top of his. The old man driving was understandably very shaken up. There was no alcohol involved and I heard he was a long time boater from one of the resorts. It was a scary incident but with the best outcome and no one getting hurt other than that beautiful boat.

 

[mobldj]

ma and pa kelttle go boating.frozen like peas

 

[I Dig It !]

That sucks

that was a super nice sled

 

[n2otoofast4u]

Yeah My wife loved it. this is a 2025, first time in the water. 300k

Well, it’s easy to love it. I can assume you’ve been in a few of these wake boats so you can draw your own conclusion, but the Nautique fit/finish is a step (or 2 steps) above all the others, and the visibility while driving makes them the safest of all of them. My daughter is 15, and barely 5’ tall but can sit behind the windshield and pull riders with full visibility because the bow isn’t towards the moon, and the dash is low.

We LOVE ours, I’d like to sell and upgrade once more before the kid leaves us.

 

[cyclone]

a pop off and/or a jet-a-way is not going to help that driver avoid the collision he had. Neither of those items is going to change how the boat steers when the engine is turned off and the jet drive has zero thrust output. I'd bet that a small skeg on the bottom of the steering nozzle would have added a small degree of steering control but likely not enough to change the outcome. Carburetors do not like bouncing around and so if the boat was launching off wake boat rollers and the driver let off the gas pedal and the throttle blades were closed then the engine probably shut off from having an excessive amount of fuel spill out of the boosters into the carb Venturis at low engine rpm.

looks like the hull can be repaired. thankful nobody was hurt.

 

[76 Hondo]

a pop off and/or a jet-a-way is not going to help that driver avoid the collision he had. Neither of those items is going to change how the boat steers when the engine is turned off and the jet drive has zero thrust output. I'd bet that a small skeg on the bottom of the steering nozzle would have added a small degree of steering control but likely not enough to change the outcome. Carburetors do not like bouncing around and so if the boat was launching off wake boat rollers and the driver let off the gas pedal and the throttle blades were closed then the engine probably shut off from having an excessive amount of fuel spill out of the boosters into the carb Venturis at low engine rpm.

looks like the hull can be repaired. thankful nobody was hurt.

OH, what do you know about Boats?
When's Side Chick coming back out?

 

[cyclone]

OH, what do you know about Boats?
When's Side Chick coming back out?

Not sure. that last event was a very expensive learning experience. lol.

 

[MCnParker]

a pop off and/or a jet-a-way is not going to help that driver avoid the collision he had. Neither of those items is going to change how the boat steers when the engine is turned off and the jet drive has zero thrust output. I'd bet that a small skeg on the bottom of the steering nozzle would have added a small degree of steering control but likely not enough to change the outcome. Carburetors do not like bouncing around and so if the boat was launching off wake boat rollers and the driver let off the gas pedal and the throttle blades were closed then the engine probably shut off from having an excessive amount of fuel spill out of the boosters into the carb Venturis at low engine rpm.

looks like the hull can be repaired. thankful nobody was hurt.

Exactly the scenario the owner explained to me yesterday when we went to check on him and his wife.

 

[TrollerDave]

Exactly the scenario the owner explained to me yesterday when we went to check on him and his wife.

Are they Ok? It looked like the Passenger to a bit of a bounce.

 

[MCnParker]

Yes they are both fine, sore a little bruised up but nothing major. Miracle that no one else was injured!

 

[cyclone]

Yes they are both fine, sore a little bruised up but nothing major. Miracle that no one else was injured!

glad they are ok.

 

[Flying_Lavey]

a pop off and/or a jet-a-way is not going to help that driver avoid the collision he had. Neither of those items is going to change how the boat steers when the engine is turned off and the jet drive has zero thrust output. I'd bet that a small skeg on the bottom of the steering nozzle would have added a small degree of steering control but likely not enough to change the outcome. Carburetors do not like bouncing around and so if the boat was launching off wake boat rollers and the driver let off the gas pedal and the throttle blades were closed then the engine probably shut off from having an excessive amount of fuel spill out of the boosters into the carb Venturis at low engine rpm.

looks like the hull can be repaired. thankful nobody was hurt.

My buddy is probably pretty glad he didn't have a rudder giving him a couple of degrees of turning cause that was his black and blue boat on the other side of the dock. BARELY missed his.

 

[76 Hondo]

Not sure. that last event was a very expensive learning experience. lol.

You'll be back, fast boats are in your blood!

 

[pixrthis]

I was there at the pool bar getting beers when it happened. In fact my son just moved his jet boat from that beach spot a couple minutes before this happened and can be seen at the end of the video with his shore spike in hand as he was setting his boat in the new spot.

Pretty much as Dave said, the guy had made a pass for the photographer and then made a U-turn to come back around and hit both sides of a big wake. Sounded like he hit the gas off the first wake and then it died coming off the second wake and he coasted all the way hitting the corner of the dock, smacking the cowling on the center console boat, and then slammed into the wall.

Thankfully no one was injured and all walked away. It was a busy day and there had also been some kids in the sand down on the beach shortly before this happened and like I said, my son had just moved his boat within minutes or this boat would have been sitting on top of his. The old man driving was understandably very shaken up. There was no alcohol involved and I heard he was a long time boater from one of the resorts. It was a scary incident but with the best outcome and no one getting hurt other than that beautiful boat.

Thank you for putting all the idiotic speculation to rest. People passing judgement with little to no knowledge of what lead up to the situation is as mind numbing as the insurance fraud speculation every time something gets stolen.

 

[cofooter]

Glad they are OK and no one got hurt. Having said that, people could of got hurt or killed if it happened a few seconds later and it went up on the bar. Gotta be in control of your shit even if you lose control! Like some of the others, those speed passes 100 ft off the dock in traffic always seem sketchy for this very reason.....