William Daley a mechanical engineer with CED Technologies notes the company found that the boats would swap ends even though the engineers werent pushing the vessels to their limits.

Flats boat swapping ends. 2021 Blackfin 252DC Dual Console. The X7 features numerous storage and livewell options and boasts the newest design in integrated spray rails that channel water down and away from the boat while underway. An example of this style of boat is the Texas Flats style of boat.

Check out the Beavertail Store. Jump to Latest Follow Status Not open for further replies. It turns out one of his game wardens had been thrown from a flats boat.

As our testing has shown a swap end event is possible at speeds as slow as 25 miles per hour. Bass Boat Escapes Lake using a drone to find an opening to the main canal. Texas flats boats also called bay boats have been found unsafe by a United States Coast Guard Contractor.

In this fishing video Florida fishing girl goes deep sea fishing in her flats boat. In July 2012 Kali Gorzel a 16 year old girl loved by hundreds fell from a bay boat off Port Aransas Texas when the operator lost. Friday May 13th 2016.

For a well-informed and skilled operator but thats not the majority of the boating populationPersonally Ive seen one swap ends going straight in the ICW presumably from hitting a wake but who knows. A bay boat will often work in waters less than two feet in depth. Bay boats flats boats are relatively flat bottomed for shallow water operation.

While saltwater fishing we had an epic boating fail miles out to sea an. It swapped ends on him and he was thrown from the vessel and injured Jones said. The FlatsCat is basically a catamaran hull that runs exceptional shallow without churning bottom yet provides a smooth and dry ride in bay chop.