Stupid Move

(thor) · (thor) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 03-15-2005, 12:34 PM

We were riding on the Stockton Deep Water Channel the other day and found this ship coming down the channel. Everyone on the boat thought it would be great to drag me infront of the ship and at the time I didn't think any differently. Now that I look at the pictures I would have to say it was a pretty stupid move.
The ship was so huge that it really intimidated me. I wouldn't even go wake to wake for fear that I might crash and get sucked into the prop or something.

(mikel) · (mikel) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 03-15-2005, 12:43 PM

That has got to be chopped...and is a classic.

If not you are crazy.

justsomeguy 03-15-2005, 12:47 PM

You guys are every harbor pilot's nightmare.

At least in hindsight you can see the error of your ways.

(wakeworld) · (wakeworld) **Join Date: Jan 1997** 03-15-2005, 12:49 PM

Is that a real pic???? That is nuts!! Can I use it for our "Don't try this at home" article! :-)

(kevin_bird) · (kevin_bird) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 03-15-2005, 12:49 PM

haha i live in stockton and ive seen guys fall near the ships before nothing has happened but it is still pretty scary. It is definately an experience to ride next to one though, even if it is tied up downtown at the port.

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 03-15-2005, 12:52 PM

i'd say that yes, it's a real pic. it happens in stockton all the time.

not directed at you dave, but why are people so damn quick to call "shopped" on people that have nothing to gain from posting shopped pics?

(Message edited by dakid on March 15, 2005)

(big_xstar) · (big_xstar) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 03-15-2005, 1:10 PM

Crazy SOB!!! Those things you got made of Brass or what?!?!... Crazy just plain crazy!!

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BTW.. Great pic though

(jonm) · (jonm) **Join Date: Jan 2002** 03-15-2005, 1:15 PM

Awesome pic. But not smart.

(bbeach) · (bbeach) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 03-15-2005, 1:19 PM

I hope you were drunk, because at least then you would have some excuse for doing something that dumb!

Phew! Amazing pic though!

swass 03-15-2005, 1:25 PM

Man, you people are gullible!

(thor) · (thor) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 03-15-2005, 2:03 PM

The picture is real. I wouldn't even begin to now how to crop and paste a picture and make it look that good.

Yes, it was a stupid move as the thread title indicates, but as my only disclaimer, I can only say that I was following the boat, not driving.

As for being drunk, No, I wasn't. If I were, then I'd probably be throwing an invert in the picture.

I doubt I'll ever do it again though and I hope my wife doesn't see the picture.

(chvywkbrdrmc205)

the happened to me one time riding the channel. My friends live a few turns off the channel and their boat is just on a hoist out back. We were riding and there was a huge ship up around the corner, so we turned around and took off the other way. When I was getting pulled back we can around a semi blind corner and there was the freaking ship. Huge mofo, scared the crap outta me. I just stayed inside the wake till we were way, way past that thing.

(piranha) · (piranha) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-15-2005, 2:18 PM

Crazy ~~ Yes.

Fake ~~ No.

Rob the prop on that ship is too deep to suck you in.

(tyler_o) · (tyler_o) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 03-15-2005, 2:52 PM

First off "I believe". But, doesn't it look like the line goes up towards the ship and has ball at the top?

(piranha) · (piranha) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-15-2005, 4:09 PM

The photographer was most likely standing up under the tower so it appears to have a weird angle on the rope.

(thor) · (thor) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 03-15-2005, 4:31 PM

I'm 6'5" tall and with my arm raised in the air it is approximatley 8' above the water. That being said, that ship must have been atleast 50-60 high and about 300 feet long.

Here is another picture to disprove the claim of photoshop.
ship2

(loudontn) · (loudontn) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 03-15-2005, 4:49 PM

That's quite a ship, and I'd have to say you have more balls than me. ... that or your driver is a mean SOB. haha

(airwarrior04) · (airwarrior04) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-15-2005, 5:31 PM

Quote:
I hope you were drunk, because at least then you would have some excuse for doing something that dumb!

I second that
GOOD PIC

(mikel) · (mikel) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 03-15-2005, 6:25 PM

Joe,

The pic and description kinda gave off the flavor of being tongue in cheek.

I am unfamiliar with the delta and have never ridden there...can those huge ships be that close to the shore?

Plus he looks so relaxed...my sphincter tightens up when a seadoo is behind me let alone something that big.

I also think I was sort of hoping he "made" the picture as it seems way too risky to actually do that in real life.

(greenpinky) · (greenpinky) **Join Date: Apr 2004** 03-15-2005, 6:51 PM

Great pic. You're crazy. But, awesome pic!

(blake_hughes)

That's awesome, I wish I had been there!

-Blake

(zipe) · (zipe) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 03-15-2005, 7:26 PM

If ya never been on the deep water channel in Stockton and actually been along side one of those ships, it would definitely appear unreal. It is pretty amazing that they get those ships down the relatively narrow channel under their own power.

I wasn't on the boat that day but the pic is real. I have been right along side them as well.

Don't worry Rob, won't tell Karen :-)

Shawn

(twitch) · (twitch) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 03-15-2005, 7:55 PM

now if you were real crasy you should have went wake to wake on the wake that ship threw

oh yeah and sweet pics too

wakelvr 03-15-2005, 8:47 PM

I'm telling Karen! J/K
Who was driving? If it was Jason, he is busted. But it looks like a different day all together. Rob, motherly instict is kicking in... what were you thinking?

jmo52 03-15-2005, 8:55 PM

That is the craziest stupidist thing i've ever seen! Great pic.

(greenthumb) · (greenthumb) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 03-16-2005, 6:11 AM

I wonder what kind of ballast weight that thing has in it?

swass 03-16-2005, 7:24 AM

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying the ship was towing you, not a boat in front of the ship. There's that reading comprehension thing again.

(colorider) · (colorider) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 03-16-2005, 8:15 AM

Dang Swass, you need a vacation in the sun or something

swass 03-16-2005, 12:09 PM

Yeah I do!

(boarditup) · (boarditup) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-16-2005, 1:35 PM

I had to investigate the death of a 16 YO PWC rider who showed off for his girlfriend jumping the bow wake of a barge. He fell off and the surge took him and his machine into the tug's prop. Never recovered the body, although the machine floated back to the surface for recovery. If there is limited water depth along the hull, the water will move along the hull very differently than you may expect and can "suck" you into the prop. In a constricted channel I would not approach a ship or barge on anything less than about 25' of boat with decent freeboard. Even then, sometimes the water will cause the boat to "suck" into the ship's side and heel away from the ship. Needless to say if you fell in front of that ship off your board, you are likely fish food.

(ktmwakeboarder)

That's so rad. I love it! Oh how I love the Delta and all its lovely surprises and unique attributes. As mentioned and proved above, definitly not shopped, those big ships do come in and out quite a bit.

stillstandin 03-16-2005, 7:57 PM

I think I would feel safer wakeboarding in front of that then a jet skier...

(cdm) · (cdm) **Join Date: Aug 2003** 03-16-2005, 8:21 PM

I hate to go against the grain here, but I don't think it was all that crazy. Im with Craig. I would feel safer wakeboarding in front of that than a jet ski. The tanker is consistent and predictable not to mention, slow. Anyway, let it begin...

dick 03-16-2005, 11:42 PM

i wonder how big the wake is on that beast haha

(kristian) · (kristian) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 03-18-2005, 4:49 AM

Dude, you should of done a wall ride on it! I'm joking, riding next to it is dumb enough as it is.

(wakehound) · (wakehound) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 03-18-2005, 7:11 AM

The wakes on these things are actually very small.

essy 03-18-2005, 8:52 AM

holy cow!!! it's almost too hard to believe! consider yourself as the luckiest person alive with that monster behind you!!!

(hatepwcs) · (hatepwcs) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 03-18-2005, 9:41 AM

Great Pic Rob

(cyclonecj) · (cyclonecj) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 03-18-2005, 9:49 AM

The screws on that tanker are not that deep, and are at least 24 ft in dia., there's at least two of them. They look just like an inboard prop, only a LOT bigger. The ship is nowhere near full, so the screws are a lot closer to the surface than you think, possibly even breaking the surface. I watched two guys get sucked into the screws after they fell overboard when I served on an oiler in the Nav. Never found any trace of them. You could have been some distance away and gotten yanked under by the prop wash, you'd be 30 ft underwater in a second or two. Buy a lotto ticket, you are a lucky dude.