"Mikhael" wrote ...
You bought a 'boat' for safety yet you drink and drive in it?

Two separate issues there... Don't know about your area, but here in Texas,
drinking and boating go hand-in-hand... Sometimes it's a factor in
accidents, but I suspect testosterone is a factor in more of them... Combine
drinking and testosterone (i.e. teenage drinking) and you up the percentages
somewhat...

Of all the power boat drive mechanisms, a jet drive tends to be the safest
to anyone in the water near the drive mechanism... The maneuverability of my
jet boat is also such that in an emergency I can just turn the wheel all the
way to one side (even from a top speed run) and turn the boat around within
a length of the boat... This is actually quicker than slamming it into full
throttle reverse... I actually had a case where I had to do that on a run
down the San Jacinto river one day... I was coming around a bend in a
remote part of the river and there was a bridge crossing the river... The
bridge was in colors of black and gray... There was an elderly fisherman in
a gray jon boat across the opening underneath the bridge and he was wearing
gray camouflage overalls... He was right in the shadows of the bridge, so I
did not see him until I was right on top of him... I was doing around 40 mph
at the time... I threw the wheel all the way to the left and spun out doing
a 180 in front of him... I then idled past him and explained that I hadn't
seen him in the shadows until it was too late and apologized if I had gotten
him wet with the spray... Turns out the spray had stopped just short of his
boat... Must have been an impressive site from his point of view...

"Steve Barker" wrote ...
Gas HOGS. Be sure to test drive one for at least a few hours to see for
yourself. Don't take any salesmans word. You're looking at at least 10
gallons an hour.

But assuming that he's doing at least 30 mph for that 10 gph fuel rate,
that's still 3 mpg... For a boat, anytime your fuel consumption is measured
in "miles per gallon" instead of "gallons per mile", you're doing good...
grin

But assuming that he's doing at least 30 mph for that 10 gph fuel rate,
that's still 3 mpg... For a boat, anytime your fuel consumption is measured
in "miles per gallon" instead of "gallons per mile", you're doing good...

Since these boats are generally used for "point A to point A" travel (with no
particular destinations in between) and the trip is designed to take "X" number
of hours, fuel consumption is a factor.