On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:07:19 -0700, "Mike" wrote:
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:58:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
taken light, small jon boats and has adapted wrecked
jet ski engines to them.
I thought of that the first time I really looked at a jet ski up
close. I assume you have to toughen up the jon boat quite a bit to
take that many horsepower. These things are 60+HP aren't they. That
should make a 14' jon boat fly. I know they move right along with a
25.
They were selling a jet, RIB around here for a while but I haven't
seen one in years.
I have two 160HP jets in my boat. Yammie uses the same engine (single) in
their larger "skis." That little boat would become airborne, and not in a
good way.
Someone made a RIB with two 450 hp Cummins Diesels and Hamilton jet
drives. Could of bought it in 2000 for 180 grand, but in Iowa? We have
had a Turbocraft for fifty years, hull number ten of the first model
sold in the US, back in the fifties. Came with a 109 hp flathead six.
Put in a Buick V-6 and got 3700 RPM, up from 3200 with the Graymarine.
Casady