43 Donzi....big air....small brain.

[Hellbent]

 

[Ratickle]

Caption on YouTube

Published on Jan 23, 2013

A not so bright individual took his 6 figure 43 ZR straight into a 40+ ft wave off the coast of California and gets major air. Very stupid thing to do.

Some of the comments..

I actually know the owner and one of the passengers. My buddy dislocated his hip and shoulder when the third passenger landed right on top of him.

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This video was shot by Pete Koff in San Francisco Jan 19th 2013
The boat was a 35ft Donzi boat, the hull did get damaged and there were some pretty serious injuries on board. The owner just put $500 of work into the boat. The boat stalled out for about 2 min after the jump, then jammed back into SF Bay.

 

[old377guy]

OMG!

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

My impression was it was more an ignorant move then intentional and stupid. I did not appear he intended to catch air.

 

[Ratickle]

I wonder how much experience he had? There is no way most of us would even consider a straight on, at speed, into a wave of that size......


Ignorant, or stupid, still not a good thing. In some ways he was pretty lucky it wasn't worse......

 

[Ratickle]

If that's a 35 Donzi, the wave has to be close to 35' high. That means the nose of the boat fell about 60 feet ????????

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

You can see he had slowed.

 

[old377guy]

I too, doubt that he was going out for air; just probably thought - wow - big water, I've got a big water boat. OH SH!!!T, do I roll it for sure or just try to punch through over the top? Lucky indeed.

 

[baronmarine]

i got this emailed to me last week. i wonder what his insurance man thinks of this video?

todd

 

[Buoy]

From everything I've seen, it was a 43.
Obviously a bad decision all around. Especially with passengers.

 

[Ratickle]

From everything I've seen, it was a 43.
Obviously a bad decision all around. Especially with passengers.

Heard anything new?

 

[phragle]

Heard anything new?

yeah...they all would have been fine if they had just installed.....

 

[old377guy]

Now that's the ticket!

 

[Buoy]

yeah...they all would have been fine if they had just installed.....

Yep, cuz your azz would have puckered so tight around that thing you wouldn't be going anywhere

 

[fund razor]

Hilarious... yet disgusting.

 

[Buoy]

Hilarious... yet disgusting.

Much like some boating forums

 

[old377guy]

Much like some boating forums

Thinkin the same thing Tim - great minds think alike...etc.......

 

[Buoy]

Heard anything new?

I saw these pics on RiverDavesPlace.
There really wasn't any other info.
Looks pretty bad.

 

[poncho]

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I saw these pics on RiverDavesPlace.
There really wasn't any other info.
Looks pretty bad.

Thats pretty bad and wonder how they are going to explain it to insurance.

 

[Bobcat]

I'd say that is a total loss, cost more to fix than it is worth.