Best article from cottagers who knew the owner of the speedboat
https://www.frontenacnews.ca/south-frontena...was-foreseeable“I knew there was a fishing boat, filled with young kids just by the far shore. They had been there for quite a while, playing country music, partying, and just floating between two docks. I could see the lights of their phones, and maybe the light of a speaker. When I heard the engine rev up from the red boat, I thought that since it was dark, the boat would take the centre path through the strait,” he said.
But Tony worried that the red boat might hug the far shore, because that was something the boat owner had developed a habit of doing.
“He had been working on this for four years, since he started running the boat on the lake. Those speed boats can’t really turn, so he would like to come through as close to the shore as possible in order to cut a curving path at full speed and go all the way to his cottage after coming into Buck Bay. He kept starting to throttle up his engine earlier and earlier in order to come through at higher and higher speeds,” he said.
On this night, when Tony Hammond realised that the red boat was at full throttle, travelling what he estimates was 60-70 miles per hour along the far shore, and that it was hugging the shore even though at 9:35 pm it was dark on the lake, he leaned over the edge of his porch, and waited, in pure dread.
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TRAGIC Boat Crash during the Long Weekend
