Ski Boat Flipped by Big Wakes & Poor Driving

[Jonny Quest]

The picture below is from a local lake (Jordanelle State Park). My daughter was on a neighbor's G25 SAN "surf barge" and watched the Park Rangers tow the upside-down boat in to the marina area. Based on the rudder and tracking fins, I'd say this is a Malibu Response. My daughter asked the local Rangers and the incident seems to have been caused by big surf wakes and poor driving by the Malibu operator.

[SilentSeven]

Be interesting to see what the local news write-ups say what happened.

I wouldn't be too surprised to hear that a Response was swamped; some of the late 90s/early 2000's models have pretty minimal freeboard.

I won't let noobs drive my 206 when the surf rigs are working the lake; too easy to stuff the nose. If the malibu was a openbow model, I could see how a driving booboo could have taken in a lot of water.....

[doug69]

Oh man. Those surf “ships” again!!?! When will they stop!?!! The lake I’m on is very busy and I’ve never
Seen or heard of anything like this happening due to a wake and we have aluminum fishing boats and small runabouts alongside those surf
“Tankers”. I’ve never even seen a paddle boarder get knocked down. Let’s maybe wait to hear more detail before the customary sh!tting on wake “galleons” starts.


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