Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Pacemaker wrote:

that was totally avoidable

Agreed. There's a whole lot wrong in that incident. The driving aside, the motor does not appear to be trimmed very well. It could be angle or height but he loses the bow pretty easily on that first wake. He then doesn't recover very well going into the 2nd wake and it amplifies the problem. I drove around in my brother's 21 ft Triton bass boat a lot and we would never cut a wake that close or at that angle. When I did hit a wake I was back on track very quickly. That's a combination of a well trimmed boat and good driving.

The other thing that caught my eye is that someone is filming it in the 1st boat but he was in the water for 10 minutes? Something weird there.

I've logged a lot of hours on lakes, bays and the ocean. I've seen all sorts of crazy things and it's made me very cautious. I always felt there should be mandatory courses to operate a boat and they should show people videos like that.

I took a course too.  They are starting to make it mandatory starting some year in the future.