After Lake Mead, Trident is in my future...

[40FlatDeck]

Well, I finally made a trip to Lake Mead but it didn't go as planned!! We were there for the Poker Runs West poker run and stayed at Lake Las Vegas (which is beautiful by the way).
Saturday we launched out of the Lake Mead Marina which was windy as sh*t. We were going into the wind and against some pretty decent white caps when I landed off a wave and out of the corner of my eye I see a little white bouy on my left:sqeyes: , sh*t, yank the wheel right and bam, right over a rock ledge.:mad: I cant even believe it! In the middle of the lake no less..... I get back on the throttles and head straight back to the marina with suprisingly no vibration (I thought I killed both props and I thought I put a hole in the damn thing). Put the boat on the trailer and see I have ruined my two brand new Herring lowers, hardly any damage to the props, but some decent scars on the right bottom of the boat.:mad: Anyway it could have been worse.
Got the lowers off on Monday and they were shipped back to Herring, big thanks to Gary Smith. Shipped my props off to BBlades for some love today and I will be dropping the boat off to Wes and the boys at Trident so they can work there magic on the hull. With Trident using the latest in materials and technique, I have no doubt the boat will be perfect when done. If I know Wes, he has already talked to Peter@Skater.:D Hopefully I will be back on the water soon!

[vegasriverjunkie]

That sucks!! Where abouts on the lake was this?

[Outnumbered]

Well, I finally made a trip to Lake Mead but it didn't go as planned!! We were there for the Poker Runs West poker run and stayed at Lake Las Vegas (which is beautiful by the way).
Saturday we launched out of the Lake Mead Marina which was windy as sh*t. We were going into the wind and against some pretty decent white caps when I landed off a wave and out of the corner of my eye I see a little white bouy on my left:sqeyes: , sh*t, yank the wheel right and bam, right over a rock ledge.:mad: I cant even believe it! In the middle of the lake no less..... I get back on the throttles and head straight back to the marina with suprisingly no vibration (I thought I killed both props and I thought I put a hole in the damn thing). Put the boat on the trailer and see I have ruined my two brand new Herring lowers, hardly any damage to the props, but some decent scars on the right bottom of the boat.:mad: Anyway it could have been worse.
Got the lowers off on Monday and they were shipped back to Herring, big thanks to Gary Smith. Shipped my props off to BBlades for some love today and I will be dropping the boat off to Wes and the boys at Trident so they can work there magic on the hull. With Trident using the latest in materials and technique, I have no doubt the boat will be perfect when done. If I know Wes, he has already talked to Peter@Skater.:D Hopefully I will be back on the water soon!
Yes, Mead is looking sad. Glad no one was hurt.

[Racey]

That was a rough shitty weekend.

[40FlatDeck]

Yes, Mead is looking sad. Glad no one was hurt.
Yeah, we are good, I was more pissed at myself than anything. The white caps just made the bouy almost impossible to see. The boat took it like a champ though, I on the other hand needed a Xanex.:D

[40FlatDeck]

That sucks!! Where abouts on the lake was this?
If you head out of the Marina a ways we made a left and went into a pretty long cove. We came straight out of that cove later and continued a good ways into the main body of the lake. Sorry, after we hit I kind of lost track.

[Racey]

If you head out of the Marina a ways we made a left and went into a pretty long cove. We came straight out of that cove later and continued a good ways into the main body of the lake. Sorry, after we hit I kind of lost track.
That's bay is getting pretty low and nasty, we never boat that side of swallow over. always straight to the narrows and up to the upper basin is where all the good stuff is.

[dicudmore]

sorry about your luck Erik :( that SUCKS :mad: :(

[burtandnancy2]

Sounds like you were near Swallow Cove. I had the same near miss in heavy white caps, just missed it and I knew approximately where it was. Glad the damage was minimal...

[Sleek-Jet]

So what's going to be the new screen name??
Remember, Froggy has a copyright and tm on anything "Trident"... :D

[Magic34]

See ya Friday night sucka!

[40FlatDeck]

See ya Friday night sucka!
Yeah, yeah.........:D Make sure my steak is medium, well.

[Big Warlock]

Glad your not hurt and the boat is repairable!

[CAHotRodBoy]

Well, I finally made a trip to Lake Mead but it didn't go as planned!! We were there for the Poker Runs West poker run and stayed at Lake Las Vegas (which is beautiful by the way).
Saturday we launched out of the Lake Mead Marina which was windy as sh*t. We were going into the wind and against some pretty decent white caps when I landed off a wave and out of the corner of my eye I see a little white bouy on my left:sqeyes: , sh*t, yank the wheel right and bam, right over a rock ledge.:mad: I cant even believe it! In the middle of the lake no less..... I get back on the throttles and head straight back to the marina with suprisingly no vibration (I thought I killed both props and I thought I put a hole in the damn thing). Put the boat on the trailer and see I have ruined my two brand new Herring lowers, hardly any damage to the props, but some decent scars on the right bottom of the boat.:mad: Anyway it could have been worse.
Got the lowers off on Monday and they were shipped back to Herring, big thanks to Gary Smith. Shipped my props off to BBlades for some love today and I will be dropping the boat off to Wes and the boys at Trident so they can work there magic on the hull. With Trident using the latest in materials and technique, I have no doubt the boat will be perfect when done. If I know Wes, he has already talked to Peter@Skater.:D Hopefully I will be back on the water soon!
Which boat was yours?
I had the hot rod at Lake Las Vegas and ran the boat on Saturday. First time on Lake Mead where I actually had water splashing up on me. It was a blast though and actually caught a little air a couple times. Almost felt like ocean boating! :D

[DeltaSigBoater]

See ya Friday night sucka!
Yeah, yeah.........:D Make sure my steak is medium, well.
I prefer steak between rare & medium rare :D

[Magic34]

Which boat was yours?
I had the hot rod at Lake Las Vegas and ran the boat on Saturday. First time on Lake Mead where I actually had water splashing up on me. It was a blast though and actually caught a little air a couple times. Almost felt like ocean boating! :D
40' Skater
yellow, blue, purple

[Sleek-Jet]

40' Skater
yellow, blue, purple
Scratched...

[Magic34]

Scratched...
LMAO... Nice
Dented

[40FlatDeck]

LMAO... Nice
Dented
Everybody has jokes.................:D We did win the poker hand though!

[scarabrick2]

I saw a few boats run out of callvile sat morn( was there EARLY) . i was in a 42 searay across from sandy on the south side of the lake. only saw like 4 fast boats . I think one was a herbest skater. not sure.. they were heading up towards the narrows. i was rough. I was taking water spray up on the flying bridge. Thats off the water around 12 feet.. cruised at 11 mph to swallow around 11 ish.
Sorry about you bad luck. glad its fixable.

[Scarab Jet]

Well, I finally made a trip to Lake Mead but it didn't go as planned!! We were there for the Poker Runs West poker run and stayed at Lake Las Vegas (which is beautiful by the way).
Saturday we launched out of the Lake Mead Marina which was windy as sh*t. We were going into the wind and against some pretty decent white caps when I landed off a wave and out of the corner of my eye I see a little white bouy on my left:sqeyes: , sh*t, yank the wheel right and bam, right over a rock ledge.:mad: I cant even believe it! In the middle of the lake no less..... I get back on the throttles and head straight back to the marina with suprisingly no vibration (I thought I killed both props and I thought I put a hole in the damn thing). Put the boat on the trailer and see I have ruined my two brand new Herring lowers, hardly any damage to the props, but some decent scars on the right bottom of the boat.:mad: Anyway it could have been worse.
Got the lowers off on Monday and they were shipped back to Herring, big thanks to Gary Smith. Shipped my props off to BBlades for some love today and I will be dropping the boat off to Wes and the boys at Trident so they can work there magic on the hull. With Trident using the latest in materials and technique, I have no doubt the boat will be perfect when done. If I know Wes, he has already talked to Peter@Skater.:D Hopefully I will be back on the water soon!
Glad everyone is ok... just curious... by "Trident is in my future", do you mean a jet version of it? since jets can handle shallow water better? or did u mean taking it to Trident to get it fixed [as you did]?

[Lightning]

So is Trident the only ones who are qualified that can take care of it? If so, kudos to Trident, that's pretty impressive.

[40FlatDeck]

So is Trident the only ones who are qualified that can take care of it? If so, kudos to Trident, that's pretty impressive.
I'm just taking it there to get fixed. I'm sure there are others qualified but I feel extremely comfortable with Wes. Skater uses epoxy, kevlar,S2 glass, which 99% of boating manf. don't use, it's a little tricky.

[40FlatDeck]

Glad everyone is ok... just curious... by "Trident is in my future", do you mean a jet version of it? since jets can handle shallow water better? or did u mean taking it to Trident to get it fixed [as you did]?
Just to get fixed.:D But in the future it's a good possibility......