Joe wrote:

Hard to lose an expired licences Lloyd.

BTW there is no speed limit on Clear-Lake and I was just a passenger
anyway.

Why would you lose your license over driving 116 knots?

The guy who owns the boat is also my dentist.

I see cigarboats as great to do once, but then what? Not worth the
money, and IMO not much skill involved.


The skill is in tuning the hull & engines & props to work
together to get the most speed out of the boat. Driving one
of these is not fun IMHO, too loud & the motion is rather
violent.

Years ago I was part of a deal involving reciept of an
"offshore racing boat" as partial paymeny of a bad debt.
Naturally I was thinking sailboat, it turned out to be a 40'
beast with 3 engines, not tuned up in any respect of course.
The thing was probably 2 or 3 owners post-drug-siezure. We
did get the engines running smoothly at least and did a
number of runs over 100 knots. PITA and never did see a cent
return.

I dunno if one of these
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/phm-1.htm
could break 100 but I know for a fact they can break 80.
Prbably if not loaded, they could do a lot more.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King