Unbelievable boat handling skills

[wetny]

Have a look at this. I have never quite seen this level of skill before.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=norfol...

Is he trying to swim after it?

[Hooli]

Which one? I get a list of vids from that link.

[wetny]

Sorry this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m3Po3nW1o4

[King Herald]

I wouldn't worry about getting him out of the river, taking him out of the gene pool would be more important!

[danyeates]

Christ!!! Why was he swimming after the boat?! I'd be getting out the river ASAP! And why didn't the crew of the other boat try toget him out of the water. The dinghy would have sorted itself out. It's not going to do much damage to the other boats.

[Marty63]

Kill Cord ??

[Hugo a Gogo]

that is pretty funny though

lucky it didn't kill him when it seemed to go right over him

[UnderTheRadar]

Agreed, the other boats should have got him out ASAP and then pinned the dingy against the bank and stopped it. I think they should all be removed from the gene pool.

ETA: From my very limited experience of outboards, I thought they were like a motorbike throttle and were sprung-loaded to go back to zero if let go.

Edited by UnderTheRadar on Thursday 2nd February 22:45

[danyeates]

UnderTheRadar said:

Agreed, the other boats should have got him out ASAP and then pinned the dingy against the bank and stopped it. I think they should all be removed from the gene pool.

ETA: From my very limited experience of outboards, I thought they were like a motorbike throttle and were sprung-loaded to go back to zero if let go.

Edited by UnderTheRadar on Thursday 2nd February 22:45

Nope, throttle will stay in position. Useful if you're using a small aux engine to get you home and steering with the main engine as a rudder at the helm. Set the throttle and steer from elsehwere. Not so useful/safe in dinghies when you don't wear a kill cord.

I work in the marine trade and I'm out on outboard powered boats, mainly RIBs a lot, and I'd never ever consider taking to the water without a lifejacket or killcord. It's drilled into my brain. Lifejacket and killcord. I just can't understand the mentality there.

In the other related video, have a watch of the guy trying to get that river cruiser under the low bridge. The Safety Boat is being flung around by that guy, standing up, without a lifejacket or a killcord. That's an accident waiting to happen right there!!

Edited by danyeates on Thursday 2nd February 22:59

Edited by danyeates on Thursday 2nd February 23:00

[King Herald]

danyeates said:

Nope, throttle will stay in position. Useful if you're using a small aux engine to get you home and steering with the main engine as a rudder at the helm. Set the throttle and steer from elsehwere. Not so useful/safe in dinghies when you don't wear a kill cord.

Same here, most outboards I've worked with don't have a spring return throttle. I can't see why not actually, it would make sense. You could have a thumbscrew to lock it down, just like many old motorcycles used to.

First time I used a small Zodiac, with a 60hp Yamaha on the back, I was screaming across the seas off the coast of Singapore at full throttle. I'd just started working in a sailing boatyard there.

"This is great fun", I thought to myself......then I hit a ripple, a small wake, off a big ship passing through the channel. That Zodiac kicked up in the air ten feet and I came down on my hands and face in the middle of the boat, still screaming along at full chatter. I nearly shat myself, but managed to get control before hitting any of the moored yachts or anything else solid.

I learned a lesson that day!

[MOTORVATOR]

King Herald said:

danyeates said:

Nope, throttle will stay in position. Useful if you're using a small aux engine to get you home and steering with the main engine as a rudder at the helm. Set the throttle and steer from elsehwere. Not so useful/safe in dinghies when you don't wear a kill cord.

Same here, most outboards I've worked with don't have a spring return throttle. I can't see why not actually, it would make sense. You could have a thumbscrew to lock it down, just like many old motorcycles used to.

First time I used a small Zodiac, with a 60hp Yamaha on the back, I was screaming across the seas off the coast of Singapore at full throttle. I'd just started working in a sailing boatyard there.

"This is great fun", I thought to myself......then I hit a ripple, a small wake, off a big ship passing through the channel. That Zodiac kicked up in the air ten feet and I came down on my hands and face in the middle of the boat, still screaming along at full chatter. I nearly shat myself, but managed to get control before hitting any of the moored yachts or anything else solid.

I learned a lesson that day!

I think you'll find most hand controlled outboards do have a spring return but they also have a friction adjustment that invariably is done up to stop the return.

[db]

King Herald said:

Same here, most outboards I've worked with don't have a spring return throttle. I can't see why not actually, it would make sense. You could have a thumbscrew to lock it down, just like many old motorcycles used to..



I learned a lesson that day!

i'm ginfused. why would it make sense to have a spring return and then lock it out with a thumbscrew?

[King Herald]

db said:

i'm ginfused. why would it make sense to have a spring return and then lock it out with a thumbscrew?

So you could have a spring return, OR you could lock it out with a thumbscrew if required in certain circumstances. You have a choice.

[db]

that kind of makes sense but i'm not conviced that over-riding a spring return, which is presumably a basic safety feature, is a sensible thing.

[anonymous-user]

MOTORVATOR said:

I think you'll find most hand controlled outboards do have a spring return but they also have a friction adjustment that invariably is done up to stop the return.

That's my experience of them.

[Ayahuasca]

Unless it is in neutral the prop will still be powered even if the throttle is set to idle.


This guy is luck not to be severely lacerated.

[Ayahuasca]

He needs to take a lesson from Captain Ron:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alNxLjCBJc

[Riff Raff]

db said:

King Herald said:

Same here, most outboards I've worked with don't have a spring return throttle. I can't see why not actually, it would make sense. You could have a thumbscrew to lock it down, just like many old motorcycles used to..



I learned a lesson that day!

i'm ginfused. why would it make sense to have a spring return and then lock it out with a thumbscrew?

Well, one of the reasons you do it with smallish motors is that if you are going through waves and you are being bounced around a bit, it's ever so easy to make big alterations to the throttle position without the friction lock set on at least a bit. Which makes your passengers shout at you, because they get thrown around even more. And probably get wet. This in my 2.3m tender with a 2HP motor.

[danyeates]

MOTORVATOR said:

King Herald said:

danyeates said:

Nope, throttle will stay in position. Useful if you're using a small aux engine to get you home and steering with the main engine as a rudder at the helm. Set the throttle and steer from elsehwere. Not so useful/safe in dinghies when you don't wear a kill cord.

Same here, most outboards I've worked with don't have a spring return throttle. I can't see why not actually, it would make sense. You could have a thumbscrew to lock it down, just like many old motorcycles used to.

First time I used a small Zodiac, with a 60hp Yamaha on the back, I was screaming across the seas off the coast of Singapore at full throttle. I'd just started working in a sailing boatyard there.

"This is great fun", I thought to myself......then I hit a ripple, a small wake, off a big ship passing through the channel. That Zodiac kicked up in the air ten feet and I came down on my hands and face in the middle of the boat, still screaming along at full chatter. I nearly shat myself, but managed to get control before hitting any of the moored yachts or anything else solid.

I learned a lesson that day!

I think you'll find most hand controlled outboards do have a spring return but they also have a friction adjustment that invariably is done up to stop the return.

Umm, certainly none of the new Yamaha and Tohatsu have spring return tiller throttles. I'm sat in a showroom full of them. They do have friction adjusters, but they don't spring back.

[Ayahuasca]

My little Mercury 3.5hp 4-stroke's throttle stays where you leave it too.