Small boat handling characteristics

[Brizz]

Well said goat, especially the bits about "practice" and "know your boat".... Also its surprisingly hard to learn to to go slow when you should.  A lot of small boats have done a lot of miles without incident.   

[Eddie]

yes,exact same boat. Ginxd or what!

Mate, that is no coincidence. I'd be putting a roll bar on that at least.

[johnmead]

Well said goat, especially the bits about "practice" and "know your boat".... Also its surprisingly hard to learn to to go slow when you should.  A lot of small boats have done a lot of miles without incident.   

+1 That bit about "learn to go slow" if very important in all size boats, especially going downstream. It is so easy to "gun it a bit" fos a sckinny spot, and then forget to lift the foot again. After two or three skinny bits, you suddenly find you're going too damn fast for the next bit   
  Have a safe summer everyone

[CBBR]

+1 That bit about "learn to go slow" if very important in all size boats, especially going downstream. It is so easy to "gun it a bit" fos a sckinny spot, and then forget to lift the foot again. After two or three skinny bits, you suddenly find you're going too damn fast for the next bit   
  Have a safe summer everyone

cant b that skinny if you not scrubbing your speed while sliding across the bottom 

its called controlled aggression, enough momentum to get thru but not too much it gets you in trouble

[mohawk]

Mate, that is no coincidence. I'd be putting a roll bar on that at least.

There are alot of those hulls around and many very similar which dont roll over every second time their used  .
There aint much you can change in 3 metres of boat and adding a roll bar and no belts only raises the COG more and increases the danger.
Id lower the seating for sure in the green boat (because it looks silly sitting way up there like that ) but as Ive found with mine sitting too low makes it real hard too see in the shallows so I sit up on my roller and youd be surprised how much the boat seem too lean over in the turns.
 Regardless of deadrise , COG , or design  .. their light and fast and sooner or later like all the best things in life they will leave you broke or broken 

[heemi.v8]

so in the interest of enlightening people of how quickly things go wrong in small boats, heres the accident video.
low speed,approx 40-50kmh,mistakes in judgment were made and ive learnt from them,kinda hard not to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-WAGgkPAU&feature=youtu.be

Holy chit. That's scary. Glad you guys are ok. After observing this footage and how it grabbed in the shallow small pebbles I have to admit that i have felt the same tendencies with my boat. A warning to the many people with my plans. Will be experimenting a little more in the spring. Be careful people. I recommend a roll bar and seat belts. And it doesn't have to look bad.

[heemi.v8]

so in the interest of enlightening people of how quickly things go wrong in small boats, heres the accident video.
low speed,approx 40-50kmh,mistakes in judgment were made and ive learnt from them,kinda hard not to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-WAGgkPAU&feature=youtu.be

Holy chit. That's scary. Glad you guys are ok. After observing this footage and how it grabbed in the shallow small pebbles I have to admit that i have felt the same tendencies with my boat. A warning to the many people with my plans. Will be experimenting a little more in the spring. Be careful people. I recommend a roll bar and seat belts. And it doesn't have to look bad.

[boon]

I recommend a roll bar and seat belts