A major loss for the hobby.

[Eggy]

I'm sad to tell you guys, but today we had a major loss for the hobby. My beloved Co-Pilot went missing after a rollover in 40Mph+
After an intense search for 2min, we had to call it the end and move on, i'm sad to say that he did not make it. At least he died doing what he loved.

Now i dont know what to do as i dont know of anybody to handle the map reading.
What do you guys think?

Adding some sad pictures.

Warning! Not recommended for the faint hearted









Has anybody tried making life vest's for the guys to prevent them from drowning in a rollover?

[egneg]

My condolences Eggy ... maybe if he didn't hit the eject button he would still be here.

[Flying Scotsman]

He probably just learnt that his co-pilot said I love you and lets meet at the Lacy Inn Motel

Douggie

[Eyekandyboats]

i dont know about you. but even my race boat i operate it from the right hand side and throttles are in the middle so either i can run it or as throttle man could run it.

so what you are trying to say if you boat had no captain only a throttle man.

[Eggy]

Doh, you got me there. Damn this is even worse then, what can i do with no captain.
Dude you just made this a whole lot worse.

[Eyekandyboats]

well whats even worse is that nasty fall would have caused probably the captains arm to be severed with the fiberglass deck and the bulletproof glass on the windshield.. so he is somewhere suffering in the lake unable to help him self!.


. . . BTW i have seen that happen^ just what i described.. turned around running 2-3 lengths in front of a eliminator( what a slow boat) and it kited off and flipped. and did just that to the driver.
boat was a total loss. the throttle man suffered from whiplash and a concussion on the head.

[Eggy]

We need to start using some Life Vests for these guys to prevent them from drowning. Has anybody tried this?

[egneg]

My Driver has a vest but I don't think it will do him much good.

[Eggy]

Yea, its a start. We spend to much money and time in making our boats go faster and turning better, but see litle to no improvments in tha safety of the crew.

[kookie_guy]

I think the important point we are all missing here, is that this is completely the fault of the DRIVER. LOL! It was too much boat for him to handle, and because of him, a life was lost. LOL! Sorry, just had to.

[Eggy]

No No, it was actually the damn mechanics fault, or the designers. The rudder was a weak construction, so when passing 40-45Mph the stress on the "arm" was to much so it broke loose and the bloddy outdrive turned 90 degres making the boat jump about 3' into the air and landing wrong side down.

[kookie_guy]

Hmmmm, ok, I change my statement....

It was the "engineer" who modified the boat to increase the speed, and did not do the proper stress calculations to safeguard all the weak points. LOL!

[Eggy]

Ok got me there.

[egneg]

Engineers ... gotta love them.

I have worked in manufacturing most of my life and when parts don't fit I am told that it is due to a "pile up of tolerances". Now us regular folks say "So what does that have to do with me ... do you want this part smaller or this other part bigger!"

[kookie_guy]

Engineers ... gotta love them.

I have worked in manufacturing most of my life and when parts don't fit I am told that it is due to a "pile up of tolerances". Now us regular folks say "so what ... do you want this part smaller or this other part bigger!"

LOL! I work in automotive, and you are sooooo dead on. Then they expect us to fix it or modify our machines because they are donkeys who can't do things right to begin with, and it's never their fault. We call them stack up tolerances.