On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:50:04 -0500, John H
wrote:

No rocks
in the intake or pump,

We have hull number ten of the first jet boats sold in this country, a
turbocraft. From the fifties. No rocks but we did suck in a length of
rope. Unbolted the shaft at the U-joint and turned the pump with a
pipe wrench. A jet boat that never ever in fifty years has gone into
shallow water. My dad liked novel stuff. He had the third polaroid
camera in Iowa.

Casady