Jet boats.......

[Mike NZ]

I was wondering how many guys on iboats are running jet units? After getting stuck on my local rivermouth bar a few times in my longshaft bayliner/maxim, I decided to buy a Jet boat and hit the surf in that instead. I'm running a 350 chev bolted on to 2 stage hamilton jet. The hull is 15 ft. A new hull is on order and we'll go out to 19 ft but stay with the same powerplant. For shallow bar work and power in the surf the jet/v8 combo seems unrivaled.

 

[kev_alaska]

Re: Jet boats.......

I have a couple jet boats for shallow river running here in Alaska. With the exception of an Air boat, there is no comparison as far as accessing low or marginal water. I can take a fully loaded 21' jet boat upstream in approximately 8" of water all day long..Occasional traverses of much less water as long as I am on step and have some speed built up. I have also ran the combination hull in blue water up here. The hull design lends itself mostly to rivers, but the jet unit performs well.

 

[Link]

Re: Jet boats.......

14 ft Almar Lite, 6ft Beam, 30 inch gunnels with<br />a 90HP OB Pump set 18 inches off the back on a <br />CMC transom jack closed bow sled set up like a<br />bass boat. 1700 lbs with a full tank.<br />It would be hard to go back to a prop<br />At a dead stop<br />or trolling it only draws 9 inches of water and <br />thats only the last 4 feet of the boat the rest<br />of the boat is like 2-3 inches.<br />Bet there a lot of us out there! <br />Air Boat...now thats something I'd like to try<br />sometime!