Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many people will fit on a 22' boat?

Owner was embarrassed. He knew they were way heavy,
And the risk from the big, rip-and-tear boats. Was trying to stay,
away, but went to that part of lake because he knew they would
catch fish. Had a five gallon bucket almost full, lost them too.

Fun to ride them. I have done worse, just never owned a boat!

I hope the boat owner was driving. I'd sure hate to sink my buddy's boat...or have him sink mine.

In my senior year of high school a couple of good friends worked all summer, (awful hours) to raise money to buy a boat. First outing, one was sitting on the side railing steering the boat as his bud was water skiing behind. Big wave and boat driver get's tossed out of the boat. His buddy is skiing behind an empty boat going in circles full speed. He finally let's go of the ski rope and the boat continues to circle until it crashes into the rock dam which took the whole bottom of the boat off. Completely destroying a summer of work and their uninsured boat & motor. Luckily both made it to shore.

it depends on the wake boat. I for one think wake boats are stupid. all they do is offer, wake boarding, surfing and skiing. you have to be nazi about not ripping the props out the bottom. they are difficult to pull up to a beach. i think its one of those look cool on the lake kind of things. but they sure are popular around here. I for one need to have an outdrive that can be trimmed. some of those wake boats, in particular the older ones ride very low in the water. Most of the new ones have higher sides, but some of the old ones if you got too many people in the bow, a small wake could easily come over the bow and if the boat is underway it could easily turn the boat into a submarine for a short period of time.

the trimmed outdrive allows you to trim the bow up and handle wakes, inclement weather and waves with relative ease. it also allows pulling on on a beach, etc. I scratch my head on why people have to have wake boats. If you are buying a new boat in my area, the wake boat style probably sells 4:1 more boats. oh one other thing, they aint fast either. about 38 mph is about all you get. oh another negative I forgot they aren't easy to manuever around the dock of on a trailer. kinda hard to reverse the things with much accuracy. a 22 foot boat is a large boat. 10 people is probably more than plenty.

I think that level flotation only applies to boats under 20 feet long.

These guy didn't sink, it flipped, and still floated.

And yes, the owner was in complete control.

If the bigger guy was in the rear, they might have been ok.

I know my 24' jet boat can take some serious weight, but not sure I'd want that much in weather.

I was in a storm on lake Roosevelt that wiped out a marina with 60 mph winds and it was the first time I've ever fired all bilge pumps and told everyone to jacket up and hold on without any moving water.

We were breaking over the hardtop and riding 10'er on the way to find a wind break.

Blew a damn nice net out of my rod rack on top.

We had some wind yesterday but that's not what sank the boat. They were just overloaded and when he dropped off of plane, the wake overran them and filled it with water. Since no one got hurt, it would have been fun to watch.

The primary wake dissipates quickly.

If his ballast tanks had water in them he was even more over weight than was evident based on people and gear.

I’m looking at my 21’ chapparral now. The safety badge says 10 people / 1400 lbs. it does not have ballast tanks

Boat that expensive probably had insurance. Might be interesting to see his renewal rate after this.

That's the driver's fault.

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