Wave Jumping - Page 4

Cookee · 27 May 2008, 12:55

Time for an update - 6m BananaShark on the bar in Salcombe 115EFI Mercury 7 seats.

Ostroda · 28 May 2008, 08:12

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Originally Posted by Cookee

Time for an update - 6m BananaShark on the bar in Salcombe 115EFI Mercury 7 seats.

Good photo's .... was that you at the helm Cookee?

Cookee · 28 May 2008, 16:53

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Originally Posted by Ostroda

Good photo's .... was that you at the helm Cookee?

But of course - you probably don't get it over there, but a full review will be in Sports Boat and Rib on the 1st of June (July issue)

Jizm · 30 May 2008, 08:52

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Originally Posted by Cookee

Time for an update - 6m BananaShark on the bar in Salcombe 115EFI Mercury 7 seats.

Excellent pics!

Have to go and get SB&R next week.

Buff · 30 May 2008, 12:42

Some professional wave jumpers I was fortunate to spend the day with. Great fun but not much personality!

I'm new to the site, which I have found invaluable. Pick up my Humber Destroyer week today, can't wait!!

Buff

Palmgren · 01 June 2008, 15:28

Hi,

Here is a pictures of a Ribcraft 850 sport with twin suzuki 225's in Finland last year.

Philip

www.norcap.fi

www.rib.fi

Mollers · 01 June 2008, 15:37

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Originally Posted by Cookee

Time for an update - 6m BananaShark on the bar in Salcombe 115EFI Mercury 7 seats.

Don't mess about Cookee, give her full tilt next time!

Bigmuz7 · 01 June 2008, 21:40

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Don't mess about Cookee, give her full tilt next time!

As long as its not into the wind

Petter · 03 June 2008, 19:00

No link about rib jumping will be complete without these old classics…

Cookee · 04 June 2008, 10:08

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Don't mess about Cookee, give her full tilt next time!

They were proper surfing waves on Salcombe bar - I was only dropping over the back of them at 20+mph - any faster and I would have had time for tea on the way down!

genoa · 04 June 2008, 10:15

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Originally Posted by Petter

No link about rib jumping will be complete without these old classics…

So guys,
How do you know you are going to come down flat? (And the right way up?)

Cookee · 04 June 2008, 10:24

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Originally Posted by genoa

So guys,
How do you know you are going to come down flat? (And the right way up?)

Ignoring the "old Classics" (it ended well with the boat the right way up by the way) adjusting the throttle as you take off determines the angle of flight - too much throttle can result in a vertical landing, and backing off before the crest should result in a flatter landing - of course every wave is different and you can only get good with a lot of practise!

Race boats also have bow tanks and foot throttles which help.

Bigmuz7 · 07 June 2008, 08:14

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Originally Posted by genoa

So guys,
How do you know you are going to come down flat?

Sometimes you just have to hope

, I wonder how many peeps on this forum have had stern landings, 'power floaters'

and stalls .. me no... I've never done that

Mollers · 07 June 2008, 09:37

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Originally Posted by Cookee

of course every wave is different and you can only get good with a lot of practise!

Keep practising then.

Pablo · 03 November 2008, 13:32

I'm glad I came across this thread. I freightened myself the other day being a dick. I was testing my new engine, a 90hp 2 stroke on my 5.3m Humber. I was on a river, the Loire, with no waves. When I saw a day boat chugging along at about 16-18knotts I thought i'd show off. I hit his bow wave, about 40 or 50cm high face on at 35knotts. I remember the water/sky/water experience. Even though the boat landed on the left hand tube the power kicked in right away and straightened everything out. It must have looked very impressive. Next time around I went slower ... a lot slower.

brucehawsker · 09 November 2008, 19:12

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Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

I wonder how many peeps on this forum have had stern landings, 'power floaters'

and stalls ..

We have had a stern landing - see Weymouth Near Death Expereince, have had the opti screaming as we fly off a wave approximately horizontal. Some heavy cashes. But what is a 'power floater' and what is a 'stall'??

roughneck · 04 December 2008, 20:41

this are pictures of the rib rally tall ship race

Bigmuz7 · 05 December 2008, 06:41

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Originally Posted by brucehawsker

But what is a 'power floater' and what is a 'stall'??

(just my descriptions) They are both wave jumps, but happen with the right/wrong mixtures of wave hight, wind and throttle. For a stall you need lots of wind straight on the nose, a big wave, and when you kill the throttle before the top, the wave passed through and you hang in the air almost still at the same angle you left the wave

The power float is with same wind .. but fom behind, bout force 6 is good, trim is critical, and you power off the wave, take off and 'fly' into the back of the next one landing with a full hull length splash perfectly on the back of the next wave, then repeat ..... for ever

That gets your spray rails working

but throttle has to be just right, and if trim is wrong and too bow down .. look out for the mother of all stuffs

Ribomaniatic · 08 December 2008, 10:48

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Originally Posted by Petter

No link about rib jumping will be complete without these old classics…

You can only imagine the thoughts going through the crews minds in the second picture... "Oh this is gonna hurt...."

Ostroda · 13 January 2010, 08:05

lots of air for a small 630 diesel rib