Giving Sea Ray owners a bad name

Strecker25

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Watch this video. 2:04 is when it starts and then towards the end they catch these idiots trying to recover the dinghy. It ripped the transom locker off and I’m pretty sure the hydraulic platform breaks at one point.

 
Wow.... There must have been gold in that dingy.... If that little rope tied to the dingy and the hand rail on the transom door pulled the entire transom off they have a few more serious issues then recovering a tiny dingy.
A lot of black smoke too...
 
Wow - that's just unbelievable. I watch these Haulover videos from time to time, you can see a guy that knows what he is doing go through there in a little skiff like he is walking across the street and then a 40 footer comes barreling through and get's the snot beat out of it.
 
Wow - that's just unbelievable. I watch these Haulover videos from time to time, you can see a guy that knows what he is doing go through there in a little skiff like he is walking across the street and then a 40 footer comes barreling through and get's the snot beat out of it.

I can’t get enough of these videos. Wavy boats and zip zap power are awesome
 
If you look closely at the boat in the early part of the video it is not a very well maintained yacht. The canvas and isinglass is in poor condition and the dingy is not secured very well. You do not tie a dingy to a transom locker door, it needs 2 lines tied to fixed cleats at a minimum. In this case once the dingy falls of the platform and fills with water the drag become enormous and would teat the locker door off of any boat. The black smoke is another indication that the yacht is poorly maintained and no one should fault Sea Ray.
 
I like the mod, gives that boat a kind of "open concept"!:)
But I 100% blame the skipper for not properly preparing to put to sea. He (or she) probably became scared of the situation and added more power.

Haulover Inlet is no joke when the tides are running strong. Heck, it's no joke even during slack tide.
 
I like the mod, gives that boat a kind of "open concept"!:)
But I 100% blame the skipper for not properly preparing to put to sea. He (or she) probably became scared of the situation and added more power.

Haulover Inlet is no joke when the tides are running strong. Heck, it's no joke even during slack tide.



You ought to see Buzzards Bay (Cape Cod) when the tide is going out and the wind is blowing from the Southwest at 20. Makes that video look like a swimming pool and the bay runs for several miles.
 
This is an interesting one too. Not a lot of stupidity, but the sportfishers coming through are fun to watch

 
Wow - that's just unbelievable. I watch these Haulover videos from time to time, you can see a guy that knows what he is doing go through there in a little skiff like he is walking across the street and then a 40 footer comes barreling through and get's the snot beat out of it.

When we were keeping our boat on the east coast, this was the primary inlet that we used for every trip.

There is "a lot" of drama in this video (and other Haulover videos).

Yes, the inlet can be turbulent at times when the water is running. Part way through you see a 25' whaler come through, this guy knows what he is doing. Much smoother passage that larger boats are experiencing.

Riding on the bow in any FL inlet, at any tide condition, is a no-no in my book.

This is a fairly deep inlet, not much chance of hitting bottom in the trough's. Other inlets which are shallower your danger is not just dealing with the waves on top, it is falling into a trough. It is NOT an environment that running on plane makes things better.

In some of the segments if you look over towards the beach past the jetties, you can see the Atlantic is 4-6 waves. Have to scratch your head why someone would go out the inlet into those kind of Atlantic conditions. When you see people on the beach surfing in 4-6 waves, pretty good indications that you might not want to be outside.
 
Why the hell would you allow guest on your bow while underway let alone going through an inlet.

That skipper is an embarrassment IMO.

(Also, does he not know how to attach a dinghy to a cleat..)
 
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Riding on the bow in any FL inlet, at any tide condition, is a no-no in my book.

I don't go through inlets yet don't let passengers on the bow when we're in transit, period. And my bow is pretty flat with a sturdy high rail. The only time I allow anyone up front is to set fenders and lines when coming to a mooring or dock. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I don't want to take the chance of a person overboard or even worse, overboard with a prop strike.

My daughter likes to come up on the wide side deck and talk to me through the helm side window. She always wears a PFD but I still don't like it and have her go back to the cockpit. Its unfathomable to me allow passengers on the bow in an inlet, let alone one as rough as Haulover.
 
Have been out in LI Sound and saw people on the bows of 30+ ft boats doing 23+knts in 2-3 footers. As a passenger I don't think I could see how that would be safe let alone fun.
 
Those Haulover videos are great, but I can't believe that dinghy ripped the entire back locker off! It also looked like the swim platform was about to break off, too. It makes me wonder whether something else didn't happen we didn't see in the video, it's hard to see the dinghy and the tiny motor removing a pretty permanently attached bit of that boat and breaks the swim deck.

There's another one where a small runabout goes pretty much completely airborne in the inlet and crashes down so hard it breaks the bimini setup.
 
Those Haulover videos are great, but I can't believe that dinghy ripped the entire back locker off! It also looked like the swim platform was about to break off, too. It makes me wonder whether something else didn't happen we didn't see in the video, it's hard to see the dinghy and the tiny motor removing a pretty permanently attached bit of that boat and breaks the swim deck.

There's another one where a small runabout goes pretty much completely airborne in the inlet and crashes down so hard it breaks the bimini setup.

with it full of water that’s a huge amount of force, and from what I see on my boat albeit much smaller, they don’t hold that locker on with much
 
2 different boats. Both Sea Rays. Umm...
 
I spent two months living directly on Haulover Inlet....I witnessed all kinds of conditions similar to this where waves would stack up....As you can see, it's not that big of a deal if you know what you're doing.

The vessel in question appears to be "Satisfaction" out of Miami. Perhaps a member here and would like to shed some light on the experience.

Lots of things could have been done better, in my opinion....I actually started to cringe when I saw the extension pole disappear under the stern....The last thing they needed was a fouled prop(s)....

Sure would like to know where the locker (and seat?) went....Did it sink or did they simply let it drift?

The swim platform appears to be falling off as well...Honestly just glad no one was hurt.
 

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