Cat Can Do Crash

[T2x]

Rich your efforts over the years are missed

Thanks...a lot of people missed me back in the day as well......

No matter how many times they shot....I was always gone before the bullets got there.

Seriously, I appreciate all the kind words, but the real "stars" of that segment....were in the boat.

Funny thing is, if they hadn't flipped, only a handful of folks would remember the run. Another interesting point is the fact that Pat Patel and Doug Lewis had a somewhat similar hull and managed to blow that baby over while testing in Barnegat Bay. This was just about the time when the horsepower and boat weight curves intersected at Backflip Boulevard and Oh Sh*t Avenue.

 

[T2x]

Rich more like ICONIC LOL :willy_nilly:

Rich if asked to comentate again, would you ???

The last time I tried to "comentate", the wires broke and I fell back onto the magician's table. But! I would be glad to provide voice over work or live to tape helicopter announcing under the right circum$tance$....

 

[boatme]

Mark i do remember you dropping by when we were working on Jelly Belly and i also remember seeing you quite often later in the afternoons at Skater when i was there. Mark , just curious when was the last time you've seen Keith ?

I still see Barry from time to time

I stop at his shop when i am out in the Boonies

 

[Offshore Ginger]

I still see Barry from time to time

I stop at his shop when i am out in the Boonies

The boonies is right and has he cleaned the place up at all .

 

[cowisl]

Thanks...a lot of people missed me back in the day as well......

No matter how many times they shot....I was always gone before the bullets got there.

Seriously, I appreciate all the kind words, but the real "stars" of that segment....were in the boat.

Funny thing is, if they hadn't flipped, only a handful of folks would remember the run. Another interesting point is the fact that Pat Patel and Doug Lewis had a somewhat similar hull and managed to blow that baby over while testing in Barnegat Bay. This was just about the time when the horsepower and boat weight curves intersected at Backflip Boulevard and Oh Sh*t Avenue.

Werent the trim switches backwards?

 

[T2x]

Werent the trim switches backwards?

Not the trim...I think it was the tunnel tab switch or indicator orientation. In any event something was bad wrong in the information relayed to Doug and Patrick in the cockpit, but my point is that a few years earlier the hulls were heavier and the speeds almost too low to execute a back flip in a cat....with a few notable exceptions of course. In the early days cat accidents tended to be "stuffs". As speeds increased the barrel roll was added to the menu. Finally the hulls were able to launch like an OPC tunnel boat as seen in the above video.

(I know there was that one spectacular blowover in an inlet with an early wooden Cougar with a poor unsuspecting boating writer on board, but that was an exception at the time).

T2x

 

[cowisl]

Not the trim...I think it was the tunnel tab switch or indicator orientation. In any event something was bad wrong in the information relayed to Doug and Patrick in the cockpit, but my point is that a few years earlier the hulls were heavier and the speeds almost too low to execute a back flip in a cat....with a few notable exceptions of course. In the early days cat accidents tended to be "stuffs". As speeds increased the barrel roll was added to the menu. Finally the hulls were able to launch like an OPC tunnel boat as seen in the above video.

(I know there was that one spectacular blowover in an inlet with an early wooden Cougar with a poor unsuspecting boating writer on board, but that was an exception at the time).

T2x

Gotcha...

 

[boatme]

I dont think the crab pots did it LOL

 

[FunHome]

If you rremeber i used to stop by and see you guys working on the Jelly Belly boat

Yea i remeber the day I gave Keith the Nic Name "Midget Racer" he was not to fond of it but it seemd to fit and it is funny how many people now refer to him that way

Yea been cleaning out some drawers and posting stuff i havent looked at in years

I have the vidieo of the little cat can do going over in Canada as well i just cant find it righ now

I showed it to Mark Polker last summer It was the first time he had seen it. he couldnt believe how bad he and Dave flew when they went out of the boat

I'd like to see the video of the outboard Cat Can Do when it went over in Canada. I was there and watched it happen. I remember after the flip the other boats kept coming and only saw the boat floating in the water and steered clear of it but that put them right on top of the guys in the water!! That was a scary thing to watch!! Thank god they didn't get run over!!

 

[boatme]

I'd like to see the video of the outboard Cat Can Do when it went over in Canada. I was there and watched it happen. I remember after the flip the other boats kept coming and only saw the boat floating in the water and steered clear of it but that put them right on top of the guys in the water!! That was a scary thing to watch!! Thank god they didn't get run over!!

i was looking this morning for it I have it i just need to find it

 

[shadowcat]

I was there also and saw it live - it was amazing no one got killed as the boats drove by- find the video and post it if you have it- it would be good to see again !

 

[shadowcat]

keith if you are on here???? -pm me when you get a chance

Ted

 

[Offshore Ginger]

keith if you are on here???? -pm me when you get a chance

Ted

Ted , did you not own a 24 Skater at one time ?