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This is a 4 year old story.
Woods Hole is a ledge strewn passage between the Elizabeth Islands and the mainland part of Cape Cod. There is a Y shaped channel with a rock garden between the legs of the Y. Red Ledge is submerged at high water, awash at low water and is a boat eater.
There's a local bozo w/ a jackshaft 28 who was notorious for charging around the area; full power, all the time, anywhere. I have a friend with a 32 knot Regulator out of Woods Hole who could not keep up with our bozo.
Time passes - one day on a trip in and out of Falmouth Harbor I see the 28 up on a stand. Another friend is a mechanic at that marina. I ask him what happened.
Turned out that bozo ate Red Ledge at full speed; 25+ knots when it was fully submerged, 2' under water. He hit it just off the bow.
There was a 2' square indentation where the hull was pushed in like you would crack a hard boiled egg. The strut and rudder were bent backwards on the side that took the strike; the prop was obviously trashed.
No water ever entered the hull.
In comparison, the boat next to me in my marina is a Rampage 38. He hit the same ledge; put a dent in the hill which penetrated; had his strut bend back in such a way it opened cracks in the hull where the bolts went through - he came back to the dock w/ a USCG pump on board and almost sank.
I think I like our hull
Woods Hole is a ledge strewn passage between the Elizabeth Islands and the mainland part of Cape Cod. There is a Y shaped channel with a rock garden between the legs of the Y. Red Ledge is submerged at high water, awash at low water and is a boat eater.
There's a local bozo w/ a jackshaft 28 who was notorious for charging around the area; full power, all the time, anywhere. I have a friend with a 32 knot Regulator out of Woods Hole who could not keep up with our bozo.
Time passes - one day on a trip in and out of Falmouth Harbor I see the 28 up on a stand. Another friend is a mechanic at that marina. I ask him what happened.
Turned out that bozo ate Red Ledge at full speed; 25+ knots when it was fully submerged, 2' under water. He hit it just off the bow.
There was a 2' square indentation where the hull was pushed in like you would crack a hard boiled egg. The strut and rudder were bent backwards on the side that took the strike; the prop was obviously trashed.
No water ever entered the hull.
In comparison, the boat next to me in my marina is a Rampage 38. He hit the same ledge; put a dent in the hill which penetrated; had his strut bend back in such a way it opened cracks in the hull where the bolts went through - he came back to the dock w/ a USCG pump on board and almost sank.
I think I like our hull
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