boat 360s

lineloader · Newbie Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 9

i have seen boats go a spinout/ 360. I was curious if any of you people out their know how to do this. If so, could you explain how? Or do you know of a site that tells how to do it? thanks

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 8:42 am Post subject:

i did a 180 powerturn once. it was pretty cool but it through 2 people out of the boat and a bunch of water came in. i was crusing at about 21 and when the rider fell i punched and turned hard to the right. the back end slipped out and the side of the boat slammed into another wake and stopped it pretty hard.

other than that ive seen sea doo jetboats do it. its easy for them because when they are off the throttle they have nothing holding them to the water on the bottom like a prop. they just do it the same way as on a waverunner.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 8:55 am Post subject:

yea we can do 360s in ours but like wes said ours is a jet boat so it makes it pretty easy i did one goin like 40, scared the stuff out of me cause i though the boat was gonna flip, im gonna miss that boat once we get the moomba but im pretty sure i wont miss it for long

wake152 · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 11:23 am Post subject:

All you gotta do is go full speed in your boat. Your boat must be a inboard or v drive. Through the boat into Neutral as you crank the wheel to one side or the other. Make sure you dotn go to far and into Rev. cause this will suck water back into your engine and that could be very bad news. Like Wes said though make sure people are holding on and it will put a lot of water in the boat. But it always has been a croud pleaser in my boat.

Adam Greer · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 11:40 am Post subject:

I had a friend do it once and rip his swim plat form off. LOL and i also threw a 600 lb fatsac out of mine. It is fun until something like that happens Laughing

wake152 · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 11:43 am Post subject:

ha ha yeah that does suck. My dad works at a boat shop and back in the day when they used to sell malibu a guy my dad worked with ripped the rudder off the boat.

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject:

yeah the 700#r in the back went to the side of the boat. its a pain in the ass to move it back too.

wake152 · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

nice im a soul rider

King of the Tigers · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:15 pm Post subject:

I think it depends on the boat too. I was with a buddy on his mid 90s Tige and he could do it easily due to the shallow draft of the boat. It was fun and I was holding on to the pylonas hard as i could and still almost went into the drink. My Nauti2001 won't do it though. Still he's had his control cables break before and I've had 0 problems with my steering so I'm not too sad I can't do it.

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject:

i have a mid 90s tige. how did your buddies control cables break?

Premier135Chick · Guest

Power turns suck. This summer, whenever we see a boat do a power turn, we are going to chase them down and throw them a beer. On the beer can it is going to simply state "Dumba$$ of the Day Award" Why screw up perfectly smooth water?

wake152 · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

well of course you dont do it on smooth water or with people anywhere near its a rough water thing. and if you do that you better have enough for all the tubers on the lake.

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 12:44 pm Post subject:

yeah^^^

Premier135Chick · Guest

I know you aren't supposed too, but there are plenty of idiots out there that do and will be getting that award from my friends and I this year!!!! Riding all the time, you see some f&%ked up shiznit!

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject:

hahaha yea my dad is like that i try and tell him not to but he wont listen, its embarssing Sad

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

it's okay to get back on the power once you're turned around. just try to keep all the wakes parallel to eachother, no perpendicular wakes.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 3:00 pm Post subject:

every time i fall hell do a power spin thing and throw a wake in all directions it pisses every body off me too cause by the time im ready to go agin the wake reaches me and i have to get up in rough water which isent bad just annoying

ohsix · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject:

i hate the people that wanna practice their double ups in the only smooth water too.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 3:11 pm Post subject:

yea i wish i could do a double up o well

ghettolake415 · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 3:26 pm Post subject:

i like to thruogh the boat in reverse and get a huge wave over the nose. good stuff!!!!!!!!!

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject:

o hell yea i forgot about doin that, i know how to do it so that we dont get water in teh baot it just throws a huge spray over the whole boat soaks everybody, great times

nick e[V]ans · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 3:31 am Post subject:

Syth · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 661 City: Brentwood

Its actually really bad to do them on jetskis, they cavitate the hell outa the jet. I used to ride em alot (i know, dont hate me, it was back before wakeboarding really started) and now i just cringe when i see some weekend warrior in a 10k jet ski doin slideouts and cavitating the hell outa the engine, AHHHH.

ohsix · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 4:35 am Post subject:

Cool we've got 2 2002 yamaha's with 60 hours of engine cavitation then. What else are they good for? We just screw around on them when the water's too rough to board.

OttoNP · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 848 City: MI

matt 4 · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 9:15 am Post subject:

to piss them off even more, toss them beer like odules

Premier135Chick · Guest

Otto-Exactly. That is our point exactly. We thought we would play it off as "Yeah what's up guys? Here's a beer. Cool!" Throw a can to them and take off. By the time they figure it out, we will already have been on our way. If they catch up to us and inquire about the award, we are all willing to let them know why they deserved it!!!

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

I love power turns! I execute them as much as possible in the smoothest water possible! The delta is great for that kind of thing! Smooth water to mess up for 1000's of miles! Can I have a beer???? Laughing

Premier135Chick · Guest

We will have Coors Light just for Kyle!! Wink

ohsix · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 10:35 am Post subject:

I was thinking the same thing kyle. What are the rules to this game? Do you get one beer for every powerturn? Cause if the water's not smooth ill be happy to mess it up more for free beer. kind of an ass hole thing to do but beer is beer.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

Huh, Huh! Power turns kick @$$!
I like the way people go postal when they see someone doing one! Chill out, you're out on the water enjoying your day....why get stressed out at someone for enjoying THIER day??? Leave em' be, and go on with your bad self.....throw a power turn of your own...you might have some fun! Laughing

where's my Coors, P? Wink

Premier135Chick · Guest

Beers wont be handed out each time someone does a powerturn. It is for the boat who does the dumbest move all day.

Here is an example:
We saw this guy standing on the back of the boat for quite awhile while one of our riders was getting ready. We were trying to figure out what was going on. After a bit, we realized he had ran over the rope and was trying to cut it free. That wasn't so bad until they took off and the chick on the boat said, "It's only our third rope." We started laughing so hard. I bet the guys on that boat wanted to kill her.

wake152 · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 11:07 am Post subject:

Hey Pchick some people just need to stay away from the water.

Premier135Chick · Guest

Hehehehehehe.....

wake152 · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 11:13 am Post subject:

My fave are the people that take about 40 mins to get in or out of the water at the launch. I dont know if you guys have to go through it if you have boats moored or whatever but its always the people with the bayliners and the brand new trucks that can never get their damn boat on the trailor. Its not terrible some times if you have time to kill but when u only have a few hours to board after work and then want to get home to go out but you have to worry about the stupid launch it kills me.