How to drive a $400K boat...

[tnduc]

http://www.thehulltruth.com/gulf-coast/290857-hold.html

This just boggles the mind....

 

[kend301]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Looks like the standard million dollar bank account managed by a 2 dollar brain.

 

[j_martin]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Expensive rototiller.

 

[Bifflefan]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

they should have opt'd for the auto pilot.

 

[gypsysoul]

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wonder why he let off the throttles, looks like he almost made it across! That is some serious james bond type stuff there.

 

[DaNinja]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

wonder why he let off the throttles, looks like he almost made it across! That is some serious james bond type stuff there.

At 75mph, he would have made it across.
Doesn't look like much damage, considering...

 

[Don S]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Why would 3 motors leave only 2 furrows in the ground. I would expect 3.

 

[roncoop75]

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Far right hand prop is completely clean. Guessing that motor was up a little higher?

 

[legoman67]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

maybe offset?
like this...except the center would have to be the high one in his case...

 

[trendsetter240]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Far right hand prop is completely clean. Guessing that motor was up a little higher?

Boat was probably tilted on it's side as soon as it hit the land being that it's a v-hull.

 

[5150abf]

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That has to be a show boat right, no way could that float with 4000lbs of engines on it.

All I can say about the guy is, this proves having money doesn't make you smart, WOW.

 

[DaNinja]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

That has to be a show boat right, no way could that float with 4000lbs of engines on it.

All I can say about the guy is, this proves having money doesn't make you smart, WOW.

All five are different motors. Probably a display.
::waiting for someone to post the eight out-board drug boat::

 

[Sparkinator]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

They are the same motors, they just spell out "Midnight express." The two outside have a shorter lower unit though.

 

[DaNinja]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

They are the same motors, they just spell out "Midnight express." The two outside have a shorter lower unit though.

You're right. I didn't catch that.:redface:
I thought it was different models of the 350.
Time to dig up the pics of the eight-engine drug boat.

 

[Home Cookin']

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I suspect this occurred during a flood tide, and the marsh was under water--but that doesn't explain running up into the myrtles. Must have been at night.

 

[eli_lilly]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

That has to be a show boat right, no way could that float with 4000lbs of engines on it.

http://reelboating.com/forums/index...attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=2392&

A pic from the mounting failure.

-E

 

[Home Cookin']

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Ouch. Imagine the sound when they start exchanging molecules.

My grandmother would say "he has more dollars than he does sense."

 

[dls322]

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Thats crazy. I could only imagine how complex it is to mount 4 outboards....do you have 4 seperate ignitions, trims, throttles, ect?? How would this boat plane with all that weight in the back?
Wow, just the price of one of those 350 outboards is worth sooo much!!

 

[DaNinja]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Thats crazy. I could only imagine how complex it is to mount 4 outboards....do you have 4 seperate ignitions, trims, throttles, ect?? How would this boat plane with all that weight in the back?
Wow, just the price of one of those 350 outboards is worth sooo much!!

The Midnight Madness referenced above seems to do it handily.

http://www.midnightboats.com/content/MidnightMadness.cfm

 

[dls322]

Re: How to drive a $400K boat...

Thanks for the link....thats nuts.

I see 5 tachs, i wonder how they monitor oil pressure on each of those, I only see 2 other gauges. I would imagine that these are 4 stroke...correct?