On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:55:57 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 02:23:12 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:25:45 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Dungies are only related to king crab in that they are crabs. They
taste
better than Kings but are a lot smaller. Minimum size for sport is 5
3/4"
across the back and for commercial 5 1/4. I run a 21' boat. Jetcraft
Bluewater. Is a higher side, pointy front version of the aluminum
whitewater river boats. 351 Ford driving a Kodiak Jetpump. And a
Yamaha
T-8 kicker. Alumimum is 0.190 thick.

Just looked them up - that's a neat looking boat.

How does that jet pump do in a short chop - can you set the trim angle
to prevent cavitation?

No trim on the pump. Is what is called as a low pressure pump as opposed
to
the Berkeley pumps. The 3 stages of impellers are the same diameter all
the
way to the exit. No big necking down. Works better as to reprime if
come
out of the water. Short chop, just slow down or get beat to death.

So is it direct drive then? Or does the pump work on volume of water
vs water pressure?

Sorry for the questions - just curious.

Direct drive. Spicer double U-joint coupling from motor to pump. Mostly
volume of water. There is a slight necking at the diverter nozzle. No
problem on questions.

Neat - thanks. I have a couple of Kaiser/OMC V6s that I took out of
two Chris Crafts of late 60's vintage. I junked the old outdrives and
have been looking around for a way to use the engines in the one Chris
Craft I have kept to turn into a winter boat. This might be a
solution.

I'll have to look into this a little more. Are these Kodiak pumps
significantly different than a Hamilton or similar pump?

Later,

Tom