SoCal Jet Boats
Discussion => The No Wake Zone => Topic started by: Tahiti Tiger on May 03, 2008, 09:31:16 AM
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do you give them the full saftey course first? I have let two people drive the Tahiti, and both times I gave them a full list of saftey instructions. (wife being one of them). And only my wife attempted to swamp the tahiti, she got off the throttle, and forget to feather the throttle, untill she looked back and saw the wall of water coming.
I remember back in HS down at San Antonio, a friend of mine borrowed another friends v drive Sanger. No instructions, no nothin. Any ways I was on the beach waiting for him to show up with the Sanger, and he decided to show off a little with some high speed passes. Well on one of those passes he hit a wake, while playing with the trim plates, and litteraly stood that Sanger on its tail. He had to change his swim trunks when he came in, and I wouldn't ride with him in it LOL.
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Yea I dunno the answer to that one, I think it depends on who you're letting drive your sh!t and how much common sense you think they have. Of course there's always the chance that they don't have as much common sense as you thought they had. :banghead:
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I don't let people drive my boat unless I am in some state of emergency and cannot drive it myself. I taught my wife how to drive it but she's family and I need a way to ski. I have noticed that generally people don't have any respect for other peoples machinery and shit happens.
~Brian
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I have a list of who can drive (no one drives my boat without me in it) and it's very short. All of them have nicer equipment than I do and I have been in the boat with them many times before. However I am the type to give lessons, if someone wants to drive and hasn't before I'll let them provided there aren't a lot of other boats around.
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have noticed that generally people don't have any respect for other peoples machinery and shit happens.
Big 10 4. Thats when they will bring it back and say "Man there's something wrong with this thing" followed by "Well, thanks, I gotta get to the house, call me when you are going to take it out again"
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have noticed that generally people don't have any respect for other peoples machinery and shit happens.
Big 10 4. Thats when they will bring it back and say "Man there's something wrong with this thing" followed by "Well, thanks, I gotta get to the house, call me when you are going to take it out again"
Yeah, then you get that knot in the pit of your stomach when you hear a rod knock and the desire to kick the poop out of your soon to be ex buddy. LoL
~Brian
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If you do decide to allow someone to drive your boat, and at some point that will have to happen if you want to ski, I would make sure that you tell them what they need to know, so they don't break it / sink it / whatever.