How did it happen??

I caught a chine and rolled my Daytona at a circle race at Castaic once.  We got it back on the trailer pulled the plugs and drained the oil and gas.  New oil, WD-40 everywhere and turned over the motor first with a breaker bar by hand then with the dried out starter. Refueled it, put the plugs back in and had it ideling in 30 minuets.  Let it heat up and that steamed the residual water out of the oil. The next monday tore it down to a short block and checked the bearings, all good.  Motor lasted the rest of the season when one of the aluminum rods let go (not the fault of the sinking, the fault of the guy who thought he could use those rods so long...me).

You bail and run guys must do well at Vegas.   

For all anyone knows it may be laying upside down it 5 feet of sludge... 

I really (IMO) think you should tear it down and spend a week dry docked cleaning the fuel tanks, checking the engine, etc.  There will be a pile of etc's...

The time could save you a pile of money in the long run. 

Spin the big wheel and run her, would scare the crap out of me.   

Remember this isn't a dip, it's a sinking.

Either way I wish you the best of luck

Oh and for Dr. Phill... she's  probably mad at  him for letting her drive a defective boat!
If you think you'll ever make points that way I bet your in for a big disappointment 

Just be glad no one was hurt, give her a hug and "get R done".

Thanks to all of you for your input on this subject! It has given me a pretty good idea of what I need to do. First I have to see the damn thing come out of the water! it's driving me nuts waiting till fri or sat till I even see what I'm getting myself into! 

I let my GF drive the boat one time and one time only  She it a bridge and just so happens the pillar she decided to hit had a piece of angel iron about 2 x 2 x 1/4 sticking out hit the bow at about the one o'clock mark sliced the boat for about 18 - 20 inches looked like some took a chain saw to it. Good thing see was only going about 5 MPH and I was in the boat. Once it hit she put it to the wood I reached over in a spilt second turned the key off to stop the madness and n the same motion softly removed her from the drivers seat started the boat and drove like a mad man back to the trailer. I got in a bit of trouble as I blew through a no wake zone but did not care to much I did not want the bow in the water. The water cops where cool about it once they saw why i did what i did. Needless to say she will not nor has she asked to drive the boat again.

Hey Guys im Cadillac's brother that also worked day and night on this boat.  When he told me it went down, I felt like droping to my knees and crying.  I'm not even gonna try and explain what happened because I wasnt there, but with the details ive heard it sounds like a freak accident, Could happen to anyone (i mean any chick) driving a boat. Lesson learned on my brothers part. Id like to just post the pics of the boat so you can see what is 50ft down right now.  This was the first time we took it out on the test run...Like he said everything ran awsome cept there was a bit to much oil in the pan but from what I heard from my bro the Boat ran awsome after we drained a bit of the oil..

Ouch that hurts a lot.  Very nice boat to be sitting on the bottom of the lake.  Eliminator Sprint, right?

wow you guys kill me with all this woman driver shit my wife can and will drive my boat(s) whenever she wants. hell she paid for at least half of them. the first thing i would ask is are you ok? then deal with the boat. boats can be replaced people cant.......


there's nothing that make me prouder than to see her smiling and driving some thing i built

My G/F says she wont even try, but she has no choice... She will learn how to drive it cause one day i might get drunk

Ok here goes! She was driving good straight, back and forth, not to fast or anything she was just getting a little feel of it, but it was choppi and big a$$ ocean liners were going by putting up huuggee swells in the main part of the lake. Which is when she decided she was gonna do doughnuts.   She got around one time and I yelled at her don't do that just go straight and that's when my friend that was in the back seat yelled, go straight, go straight! Of course she went around that last time and he said holy sh*t go go go!!! She looked back and of course took her foot out of it and froze, which you know, about 20 gallons of water came over the transom and sides. It took about 2 seconds and the entire motor was under water, and choked out the motor!   Within another 2 seconds the bow was coming up in the air really fast! We all jumped out, and within a minute 2 boats came to our rescue. Once we made sure that everyone was ok, I asked the age old question? Do you have a rope so we can tow it back in to shollow water? You know, the fu@ked up part was the 2 boats that came to help us not one of them had a fu@king rope.   I wanted to throw up looking at my boat with it's bow straight up in the air I couldn't even talk I lost all brain function!   Then the other guy we flagged down didn't have a goddamn rope either, at this point I was at a loss for words!!    I cannot believe people don't believe that a fu@king rope is important on a boat, especially 3 different people!!!!   And the shitty part was just 5min before this whole thing happened these cool ass jet boat guys that we were hanging out with at the sand bar in the back were right at the rocks with us and had left to go home. I got back to the dock still wanting to throw up, and saw those guys loading up their boat and told them what happened and they looked at me like deer in headlights! He said fu@k that and literally backed his jet boat back in to the water and said lets go it bobs under the water for like 30min. So he grabbed a ROPE and we went to try and find it , but no luck!   I thanked those guys up and down cause they were the most concerned and actually felt my pain you could tell!!  So long story short, in the end I was a dumb ass and am re-living this horrible experience over and over in my head, but I am very thankful that none of us were hurt or worse!

Thanks Kev!!

I was under the impression you weren't there.   That makes it much worse... you actually had
to watch it go down...

I'm with you, I can't believe someone would go out in a boat without a rope.

I wondered how those rocket powered surf boards stayed afloat in rough water.  They seemed so loooooow.   

Mine split a water hose below the water line one day, that heavy rolling feeling sucked.  I beached it till
I found the problem.  I do feel your pain and wish you well.

Good luck in the recovery.  Did you GPS it?