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On Apr 28, 12:29 pm, wrote:
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.

Heck, I think some of them are up around 100hp! I think I'd find the
smallest one I could...well, maybe not!


You're not even close. Sea Doo currently offers a couple of models with 255
hp, provided by a 1500cc supercharged, intercooled, 4-stroke engine. Yamaha
and Honda have models in the same league. Currently, PWC manufacturers have
a gentlemen's agreement with the Coast Guard to electronically limit the max
speed of these watercraft to 65 mph. That speed can be reached in about the
blink of an eye, and could easily be exceeded if not for the electronic
speed limiters.