Can I do this with my 23 Tsunami????

bigeasy1 · #1 02-11-2010, 10:06 PM

Ok,it's not a Seacraft,but I thought this video of a 233 Formula was insane.

I think I'll try it this summer with my Tsunami.----"NOT"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA-k2eatbTI

Blue197320 · #2 02-11-2010, 10:27 PM

you can do it!!!!!!!
thats a cool video!

castalot · #3 02-11-2010, 10:52 PM

I'll join you with my 23cc it's fun in those waves the spacing is perfect

Dilligaf · #4 02-11-2010, 11:23 PM

isnt that terrible for your engine tho?

MasterBaiter · #5 02-12-2010, 12:16 AM

This happens to me a couple of times a season in Barnegat Inlet with my 23' inboard.

Of course it isn't on purpose. Every other boat I've owned you knew when you landed - not in a Seacraft!!!!
Cotton Soft.

Fr. Frank · #6 02-12-2010, 12:29 AM

Quote:

isnt that terrible for your engine tho?

Not if you handle the throttle right.

pl99 · #7 02-12-2010, 12:54 AM

Father Frank and Tucker You took the words right out of my mouth..
It was like that coming out of Boynton today. GRINNING EAR TO EAR.

Nice Video....

strick · #8 02-12-2010, 01:49 AM

the landing would be softer in your tsunami

strick

Bushwacker · #9 02-12-2010, 02:43 AM

Would be a piece of cake for a 23! I ran my Seafari like that for about 30 miles on my first trip back from the Bahamas in 3-4' seas . . . completely airborne on about every 10th wave! Of course I was 34 years younger and dumber back then!

Carl Moesly raced the original SeaCraft 21 for 500 miles at WOT in MANY races in conditions MUCH WORSE than that! If you think that video is wild, you should see some of the films of the offshore powerboat races from the 60's! Those guys were nuts, mostly in their 20's at the time. (Moesly was in his 40's and not particularly well liked by some of the young guys in the big 1000 hp inboards that he often beat with his twin 110 I-6 Merc's, but they definitely respected him and his boats!) BTW, that Formula is little stern heavy, as indicated by the stern sinking faster than the bow when he went airborne. Moesly used a ballast tank in the bow of his race boat to eliminate that problem! (check out his ballast tank patent on Carla's web site, www.moeslyseacraft.com!)

Fr. Frank · #10 02-12-2010, 09:31 AM

For a couple of years, while managing marinas, I ran a few races as a throttle-man for Gulfwind Marine. None of the major events, but smaller, local 50-100 mile regattas. Back then Gulfwind was partly owned by Steve Stepp, and I throttled on a 30' Velocity with twin 'Rude V8 outboards and a 33' Sutphen with Arneson drives.

I've seen the videos of those 500 mile races. They WERE crazy.