1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

[raymondpickens]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

there was a simelar post about 2 years ago......but it was on my lake....

i sent the clip to the cops.

This guy is dumber than the one I posted that was on your lake oops:facepalm:

 

[oops!]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

did you see the guy pointed the boat right at a populated area and went surfing?

 

[26aftcab454]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Darwin Award contender for sure.

 

[Water_God32]

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Kinda cool, not too safe tho.. That's something that I would only try in a video game.

 

[BoatingCop]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Wow what an idiot. I hope he gets thrown in jail soon

 

[jgriner]

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Alright how the heck does this work? How did he get back to the boat?

 

[Frederic Lynes]

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The guy is on Watauga Lake....most of it is in Tennessee, but he says, "I'm gonna show you how we do it in North Carolina"....the only part of Watauga Lake that is in NC is just West of Boone. Someone needs to smack the stupid out of him.

 

[oldjeep]

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Drinking and driving. I hope the authorities see it and bust him like they did the guy in BC speeding his motorcycle through traffic.

Drinking while driving a boat is not illegal in a lot of states. In MN you can drink while driving, just can't drive and be drunk. I hope that there was actually another boat following, seems like a lot of things that could go wrong really easily

 

[loose rivet]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Alright how the heck does this work? How did he get back to the boat?

Same thing I was thinking, something don't look right here. Dumb stunt or not, jump off the back of a boat into the wake and your gone, that water isn't following the boat at the same speed. Either that board is magically powered somehow or someone scrubbed the rope from the vid.

Either way I see him as an accident waiting to happen. No matter what, I don't think I'd want to be that close to the spinning prop either.

 

[oldjeep]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Same thing I was thinking, something don't look right here. Dumb stunt or not, jump off the back of a boat into the wake and your gone, that water isn't following the boat at the same speed. Either that board is magically powered somehow or someone scrubbed the rope from the vid.

Either way I see him as an accident waiting to happen. No matter what, I don't think I'd want to be that close to the spinning prop either.

I'm guessing that neither of you has ever wake surfed. You wind up a foot off the back of the deck in a pocket of wake - very easy to step/slide off the deck and hop back on once you have the hang of it. As for the prop - its an inboard, the prop is under the boat

 

[Nickypoo]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Same thing I was thinking, something don't look right here. Dumb stunt or not, jump off the back of a boat into the wake and your gone, that water isn't following the boat at the same speed. Either that board is magically powered somehow or someone scrubbed the rope from the vid.

Either way I see him as an accident waiting to happen. No matter what, I don't think I'd want to be that close to the spinning prop either.

Yeah it's called wakesurfing guys. Yes it's real.

 

[catfishcarl99]

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idiot it so under stated. nothing would have made me happier to see him fall and his boat hit some rocks and blow up. people as stupid as this dont deserve the air in thier lungs.

 

[maproy99]

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I am at least going to hope that he had tied some fishing line to the kill switch...... And didn't say anything about it because he wanted to make it look REALLY BAD instead of BAD.

 

[sw6416]

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Wow ....... Didn't even know this was possible never heard of wake surfing till today. If you can get past the part of it being one of the most incredibly dumb things you could do with a boat it's pretty cool. With that said if you notice he never pans down into the passenger seat while at the helm he just pans around above head level if someone was sitting there. Then when he goes to the back of the boat to get on the board it's possible someone could have been in the passenger seat and them goes to the rear and lays down on the seat or the floor in front of the seat while he does this, because you never see those two areas during certain parts of the video. Anyway just my 2 cents on how he could have pulled it off with someone there. If he was alone ....... what a complete douche, would have been awesome to see him crash his boat into some abandon rocks.

 

[Jono69]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

Wow. Just wow. Hopefully natural selection takes it's course soon. Very soon.

 

[loose rivet]

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I'm guessing that neither of you has ever wake surfed. You wind up a foot off the back of the deck in a pocket of wake - very easy to step/slide off the deck and hop back on once you have the hang of it. As for the prop - its an inboard, the prop is under the boat

I've seen people wake surfing behind a boat but never without a rope.
Is it something that can only happen behind an inboard boat?
I've owned nothing but outboard and I/O boats and I've never seen any part of the wake behind any of my boats that seems to be following the boat in anyway, in fact if you drop anything into the water behind the boat in that area its gone in a flash propelled rearward by the wake or prop wash.

 

[Nickypoo]

Re: 1-man Wakesurfing, no vest, no rope, no driver

I've seen people wake surfing behind a boat but never without a rope.
Is it something that can only happen behind an inboard boat?
I've owned nothing but outboard and I/O boats and I've never seen any part of the wake behind any of my boats that seems to be following the boat in anyway, in fact if you drop anything into the water behind the boat in that area its gone in a flash propelled rearward by the wake or prop wash.

Water doesn't follow the boat. A wave follows the boat. When you drop something in the water it becomes submerged and stops moving in the direction you are, it isn't "propelled" backward. Water in a a non-breaking wave doesn't change its position.

Riding on top of the water on a board is a different story. Drag is minimized so you can ride down the face of the perpetual wave, without a rope. People relying on the rope are not truly wakesurfing.

You can do this with any boat that generates a sizable wake at lower speeds, but unless you want to take a propeller to the face I suggest using an inboard.