[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by steplift20

Idk why you guys are so concerned about going fast, I have a 150 Mercury hanging off the transom and I go top speed about 35 mph and I feel that's flying . Two years ago I hit a whale in the raritan bay going maybe 15 mph and that was scary as hell,can you imagine going 50? I can't . there is a lot of things on jthe water, 35 mph is fine with me.

While I agree with you that speed is usually not that important, I think there's some kind of "magic" that is associated with hitting 50. It's like doing 100 in a car.. something to be dreamed about but rarely attained.

As for me, the need for speed is associated with an incident that happened to me years and years ago. I was out on the water with my wife, her sister and her sisters boyfriend. We were fishing and noticed that the skies were darkening rapidly. So we pulled our lines and headed at top speed for the dock. I could have wished for a larger. faster engine, because the storm caught us about a mile from the dock. Lightning flashes all around, heavy rain, wind... just a god awful mess, scary as hell. We finally made it to the dock, tied up and ran like hell for shelter. But it always left an impression with me that speed is like a gun. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.