Hyjack
Active member
I'm a little embarrased to share this but decided it is worth it if it helps prevent a serious mishap.
I was returning from fishing with my wife and sister-in-law (SIL) in my 2100 SE. While overtaking a much larger sportfishing boat, I decided to pass on his starboard side. We were in a wide channel with plenty of room to manuever; we we going about 25 kts, wx was good, water calm. I crossed his wake at about 30 degrees and the boat rolled and yawed to the right. I was expecting the roll but not the yaw. At the bottom of the trough of his wake, the prop cavitated so my keen grasp of the obvious made me realize an important part of my boat was momentarily out of the water! When the whole boat was back in the water, it violently turned hard to port. I pulled the throttle back and was thinking about all this when I heard my wife yelling. My SIL's seat was not locked (I usually check the latches prior to running back in), and the force of the manuever had whipped her around and thrown her out of the seat. Fortunately, she only had minor bruises. Lesson learned for me beside the seat is to take the wake at a greater angle, or even better, much further aft of the stand-on vessel. Hopefully this will save one of you from injury or a mild case of rectal-cranial inversion. 'Nuff said.
I was returning from fishing with my wife and sister-in-law (SIL) in my 2100 SE. While overtaking a much larger sportfishing boat, I decided to pass on his starboard side. We were in a wide channel with plenty of room to manuever; we we going about 25 kts, wx was good, water calm. I crossed his wake at about 30 degrees and the boat rolled and yawed to the right. I was expecting the roll but not the yaw. At the bottom of the trough of his wake, the prop cavitated so my keen grasp of the obvious made me realize an important part of my boat was momentarily out of the water! When the whole boat was back in the water, it violently turned hard to port. I pulled the throttle back and was thinking about all this when I heard my wife yelling. My SIL's seat was not locked (I usually check the latches prior to running back in), and the force of the manuever had whipped her around and thrown her out of the seat. Fortunately, she only had minor bruises. Lesson learned for me beside the seat is to take the wake at a greater angle, or even better, much further aft of the stand-on vessel. Hopefully this will save one of you from injury or a mild case of rectal-cranial inversion. 'Nuff said.
