Puuleaseee.
Do you know what cameras can do these days? They are faster than botes. They can stop 170mph in a nano second, and get a clear pikture and they have these things, telo-foto lenses, they are AMAZING.
I know a thing or two about botes.
IF, some person was doing 170mph, behind some bote, you bet your sweet azz someone would be talking a pikture of it.
You call the GOM a puddle and yet you bote on rivers and Inland Lakes.
Go git in your Skater, drop a line off the stern (That's the back of the bote to you) and troll for some carp somewheres else.
BTW, I will hold your beer and watch whilst you are towing that skier at 170mph, on a river.