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10-17-2016, 07:18 PM #1
[Mirage Damage] Who remembers this from River Ranch 2006?
At the time, I did not post this on Scream And Fly, out of respect for the owner. I've always made it my policy to never use the misfortune of others as a means of popularizing traffic on Scream And Fly. There are cases where important lessons can be learned, however, and those are different. However, this occurred over ten years ago, and I thought I could share this since many of you where there on the sandbar with me that day.
I remember seeing this Mirage making a very fast pass and becoming flighty when reaching some sloppy water in front of the sandbar. The driver was very skillful in avoiding what would have been a horrific accident when the boat hooked its starboard sponsor and nearly struck the sandbar. The driver was able to recover it, and this was the damage observed immediately afterward.
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10-17-2016, 08:24 PM #2
is that Brett in that pic
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10-17-2016, 08:44 PM #35000 RPM
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I was there
that day,and the driver of the boat was Chris Randal,he hit boat wakes at speed and went left and almost hit a pontoon boat pulled up on the bank,,he regained control and got it stopped and saw it was takeing on water and beached it.That was very close to be a nasty outcome.The big guy in the picture is Justin Burnett,,,long time member of our boating clan.....Ed
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10-17-2016, 09:32 PM #4Supporting Member
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Time goes by fast, Lee has the camera out "look at the size of that thing". He was running that boat hard non-stop up until this happened.
Joe
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10-17-2016, 09:55 PM #5
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10-18-2016, 02:22 AM #6
Chris sustained a pretty good arm and shoulder injury from holding on tight and keeping control of the boat . This is just one more reason not to make high speed passes in a crowded bottle necked area like the Hill , One more lesson learned the hard way at River Ranch . Keep it fun , it's not a race . Sure glad it turned out this way .
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10-18-2016, 06:13 AM #7
Matt on the lake "headgames" bought that boat from Alabama Paul folks had it before it went to Alabama. I rode next to it a bunch on the Suwannee and lake tarpon. Jack did a great job fixing it even ten years later you can't tell where the damage was.
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10-18-2016, 06:50 AM #8
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10-18-2016, 11:53 AM #9
Any videos from then?
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10-18-2016, 02:48 PM #10
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10-18-2016, 06:19 PM #11
never seen damage like that from hooking..seems strange?I see an Allison drag plate,so assume it was setup with short prop?
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Remember that well was right there as it happened.jack is houdini. He put it back together like new.red rocket out
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10-18-2016, 08:04 PM #13
Thought that looked like matts old boat
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10-18-2016, 09:36 PM #14
Well somebody has damaged and fixed a front sponson here in the past year also
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10-19-2016, 01:27 AM #15
Hey Toy Ho........you gonna be @ Foleys next month? I got a rooster for you guys!
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