jet boat styling. [Archive]

cyclone

10-13-2005, 07:24 PM

you guys ever notice how many boats east of california rock the high back bucket seats? some of these seats look like they came out of my neighbors' 1979 Chenoweth sand rail. What am i missing here? Are they more comfortable or what?

77charger

10-13-2005, 07:27 PM

so when they run an ad on e bay they can say it breaks 100 mph and the tall seat keeps you in vs flying out :idea:

Wicked Performance Boats

10-13-2005, 07:28 PM

I think it's shade for rednecks! Or protection from whiplash from some fast boats! Budlight

superdave013

10-13-2005, 07:29 PM

give 'em a break. that's all they sell in jc whitney

DeputyDawg

10-13-2005, 07:30 PM

The really cool boats have a pair of those backward facing seats out of an old Subaru Brat with handles on them for your buddies!

cyclone

10-13-2005, 07:31 PM

lol

steelcomp

10-13-2005, 07:33 PM

Summit and Jeggs don't sell boat buckets. :rollside:

dmontzsta

10-13-2005, 08:06 PM

Have you seen Kim Hanson's seats?

÷×§má®Ã×÷

10-13-2005, 09:11 PM

Have you seen Kim Hanson's seats?
cmon post the pic im shure his is just like all the other redneck boats

dmontzsta

10-13-2005, 09:20 PM

cmon post the pic im shure his is just like all the other redneck boats
yeah right!
yeeeee haaaawwwww
http://www.dmontzsta.com/MiscStuff/MiscPics/32.jpg http://www.dmontzsta.com/MiscStuff/MiscPics/bottomfrontpage.jpg
Is that what they mean by "high backs" :)
I think he bought them at Kragens, with his stereo system.

maxwedge

10-13-2005, 09:30 PM

I don't claim to know the owner of this van..er...Sidewinder, but I hear he's from IL and, no this isn't comfortable, and it's getting replaced this winter along with the rest of the interior and (honest to god it's in the engine compartment too) GREEN SHAG CARPET you see in the background.
http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/2890seat-med.jpg

RCB19

10-13-2005, 10:38 PM

Don't all you guys know that they are ejection seats? C'mon.

moneysucker

10-13-2005, 10:41 PM

I noticed that the high backs usually go with the Mr. Gasket Scoop.

maxwedge

10-13-2005, 10:59 PM

I noticed that the high backs usually go with the Mr. Gasket Scoop.
Woo-Hoo I've got the Mr Gasket scoop too! But I've also got a custom hand made incorrectly sized wooden strereo holder with a real live Sparkomatic tape deck, and get this ITS GOT A KRACO BOOSTER AMP HIDDEN UNDER THE DASH!
http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/2890my_boat_pics_023.jpg

Flip

10-13-2005, 11:07 PM

Swwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet :notam:

moneysucker

10-13-2005, 11:29 PM

Woo-Hoo I've got the Mr Gasket scoop too! But I've also got a custom hand made incorrectly sized wooden strereo holder with a real live Sparkomatic tape deck, and get this ITS GOT A KRACO BOOSTER AMP HIDDEN UNDER THE DASH!
http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/2890my_boat_pics_023.jpg
That is sic!!! I had the same Gold and brown gell on my tahiti and I found remnants of brown and green shag under the deck too. That is some good vintage shizznit.

Unchained

10-14-2005, 02:40 AM

I think the idea is to have the incredibly tall seats match the height of the incredibly tall scoops some guys run.

olbiezer

10-14-2005, 03:30 AM

guys there is no accounting for taste ( or lack of) it doesent have to be east of the left coast to be a red neck mobile......check those 100 mph jets on ebay and some come from good old calif also...... :D :D

Squirtcha?

10-14-2005, 04:54 AM

I think the idea is to have the incredibly tall seats match the height of the incredibly tall scoops some guys run.
Hey pal.................you making fun of my incredibly tall scoop?
I can't afford the incredibly tall seats just yet. Maybe xmas?

Jake W2

10-14-2005, 05:16 AM

Moneypitt

10-14-2005, 06:31 AM

If you put a boat in a wind tunnel you would see the necessity of a very tall scoop to catch any air at all. Short scoops on a boat are just fancy air filter holders. Tribal flames?? Those graffics look NOTHING like FIRE!! Especially when they run in both directions. How about some flames that actually look like fire, ala 50s style coupes, sedans and hot rods. Now those were flames...........MP

Squirtcha?

10-14-2005, 06:55 AM

If you put a boat in a wind tunnel you would see the necessity of a very tall scoop to catch any air at all. Short scoops on a boat are just fancy air filter holders.
Amen brother...............see Moneypitt knows the value of a truly bigass'd scoop. Not nearly enough drag with the lowprofile deals. :wink:
Between my doghouse sized scoop, and my throughbolted fuel tanks I could probably be running 100 mph in stead of the measley 85 I get now.

superdave013

10-14-2005, 07:03 AM

Lets talk about the real problem why does every boat in Califorina have tribal flames .You guys are not form any tribe just mostely from Mexico :rollside: .
Jake
I'm with ya on that one brother. Another is the backwards flames I see all around here. I just shake my head and think "wow that thing sure looks like it hulls ass .... IN REVERSE"!
But most of that stuff is on the big "cookie cutter customs" that people buy when they re-fi. ;)

superdave013

10-14-2005, 07:04 AM

Between my doghouse sized scoop, and my throughbolted fuel tanks I could probably be running 100 mph in stead of the measley 85 I get now.
maybe even 105 ;)

BigBlockBaja

10-14-2005, 07:07 AM

Lets talk about the real problem why does every boat in Califorina have tribal flames .You guys are not form any tribe just mostely from Mexico :rollside: .
Jake
:D

cyclone

10-14-2005, 07:08 AM

olbiezer

10-14-2005, 11:20 AM

guess we have gone full circle here now........lets review shell we?........redneck boats all have highrise seats and are everywhere but in calif......hot flameing boats all live in calif and go a 100 mph.....where will it all end????.....and remember students.....there will be a test on this on your 9 week exam!

Rampager

10-14-2005, 11:46 AM

What are you guys saying about my boat?????
:burningm:
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5454.0;attach=1063 8;image

olbiezer

10-14-2005, 12:44 PM

:D :D :D :hammerhea

bottom feeder

10-14-2005, 12:45 PM

What are you guys saying about my boat?????
:burningm:
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5454.0;attach=1063 8;image
REDNECK !
http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/1501BACK-med.JPG
me also

Rampager

10-14-2005, 12:49 PM

ok ok, my neck WAS red after that push, I concur..........
:mad:
Cheers

moneysucker

10-14-2005, 01:27 PM

Ok, you totally got us on the reverse tribal flames...For this year. 2 years ago it was normal flames and then 1997ish it was checkers.

Unchained

10-14-2005, 03:54 PM

And the tin boats win with seats even taller than the scoop. :messedup:
That scoop probably doesn't grab any air at all, It should be at least 4' taller.
That red boat looks really, really stuck.

Rampager

10-14-2005, 03:59 PM

Yes it was really really stuck
Whats funnier tho is my best friend emailed me the next day and said he still had fun wtf lol
Can't put that scoop any higher or you start grabbing more than air. Things like leaves, pine cones, birds standing on branches leaning over very small rivers etc etc........................lol
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

BigBlockBaja

10-14-2005, 04:12 PM

olbiezer

10-14-2005, 06:14 PM

those aluminum jets sprint boats are really trick (redneck as hell but trick) lol post some of your pics...like how u got it off that sand there........ :rollside: :rollside: :rollside:

Rampager

10-14-2005, 06:49 PM

Haven't been doin it long enough to have too many pics of me stuck like that. Besides that stuck kinda sucked. we ran a river with a speed limit to a highway bridge. Assumed the limit stopped there(mainly cause no one in their right minds would boat past there anyway :) lol) and we only made it about 45 seconds past the bridge before we ran into that extremely wide gravel bar which was sorta in a turn and would be very tricky to skid across unless you hit it just right, which obviously I didn't lol too bad too there was a golf course a hundred yards past the stuck ;)
There are some seriously cool stuck pics on this thread:
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=5454.0
but now that i've figured out how to post em finally here are a few more of that very stuck...
Left the 2x4's I had cut at home, found this pipe in the river but damn it was too heavy to be of much use! (carry electric winch since this stuck BBF's are heavy!) We eventually found some logs, pryed the boat with best friend pulling from bow eye literally 1/2" at a time!
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5358.0;attach=1037 3;image
Boat as it rested when we got out lol
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5454.0;attach=1063 9;image
I think this section is doable if I carried my speed in the right direction(red). Problem is behind the camera is a turn so its tricky to do. Shall try again one day hehe (maybe after a few days of good rain) We took the blue route lol
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5358.0;attach=1037 5;image
We're getting rain for like the next week it seems, this river may be high enough to have some fun ;)
Cheers

mexrunner

10-14-2005, 08:00 PM

hey mike my seats seem like high backs compared to most but i think they still look alright and there the comfiest seats i've riden inhttp://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/10671100_0936__2_-med.JPG

TRG

10-15-2005, 07:45 AM

Ive been told that the seats in my boat are too small for the aplication,... all i know is they are perfect for me,...I could give a rats sharted arse what anyone has to say about me (or my boat),.......hell I TAKE CARE O' MY KEEYUDS!
the yellows are getting the better hand of me now! :eat:

TRG

10-15-2005, 07:47 AM

http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/662savanah_lifeline_004-med.jpg

Mr. Crusader 83

10-16-2005, 08:18 AM

i agree with the backwards flames... my fav is the paint running down the side of the boat.... backwards....... and yes flames should look like flames... but lets all be honest here. we have 70's and 80's boats. why not go original and leave the paint from then. i like the vintage look for paint but thats just my opinion..... (but if i had the cash i would paint mine too)

WUTWZAT

10-16-2005, 05:21 PM

All us REDnecks allready know how MUCH COOLER yall LeftCoast guys are than us.
My first Jet a 76 sidewinder had some high backs from the factory when I bought it the first thing I did was to cut them down they looked pretty nerdy.
Lets talk about the real problem why does every boat in Califorina have tribal flames .You guys are not form any tribe just mostely from Mexico :rollside: .
Jake
Ha ha ha, how the hell do you know where I am form? But yes I am guilty of having flames on my boat, but thats in the past and they weren't tribal they were just plain old REDNECK wants flames on his left coast boat. LOL, its all good, I am looking for some decent seats. What would yall recomend so not to make fun at me. I am planning to bolt them to aluminum rails bolted to the stringers. Whatcha all got?
Jason

TRG

10-16-2005, 09:28 PM

some just like mine but 4" wider!
New Mold, the side do not peel inward they are actually vertical! a total of 22" wide 19"tall and 19" deep mold is perfect!
Todd

victorfb

10-16-2005, 10:57 PM

Todd, can you make 12" wider to fit my fat arse in em? lol

victorfb

10-16-2005, 10:59 PM

BTW. i think tribal flames are out for next season. peace signs and flowers are the next rage. :D

TRG

10-16-2005, 11:11 PM

Pink is the NEW red!
The seats are 4" wider than mine vic!
and yes, your fat ars will fit in them too!

WUTWZAT

10-17-2005, 08:08 AM

Pink is the NEW red!
The seats are 4" wider than mine vic!
and yes, your fat ars will fit in them too!
I hear its all about the cooler space, that is the new thing that will judge the resale value of your boat. IF your bilge is insulated or you have a ski locker just call it an onboard cooler and cha-ching an extra grand on the price of your boat
Jason

Moneypitt

10-17-2005, 10:29 AM

Peace signs and flowers??? I already went with a Pasley deck trimmed in off color lace!!!!! Boy I'll never listen to that painter again!...kinda wondered how many batteries he was filling with all that acid he was ordering..............MP