The more I read this thread.... The more "Stupified" I get...... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Lay off the gas !!!
It is very simple jets suck and vdrive screw !!! :cool:
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The more I read this thread.... The more "Stupified" I get...... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Lay off the gas !!!
It is very simple jets suck and vdrive screw !!! :cool:
[QUOTE=Sangster]C1...Berkley, Aggressor or Panther would never advise that to be common practice...I hang out at a few jetboat shop that repair more pumps that are tore up by jest starting them in shallow water..let alone running them at speed in shallow water... It's typical jetboat mentality....Hope some poor schmuck that has a jetboat don't take your little sermons to heart... Oh well...If Canuck1 says it's OK..It must be....... BTW.....Any relation to Kim Hanson....
Sangster
You are from the land of glass hulls and lake boats and drag racing... Mine is built to run rivers, lakes where ever. Tearing up a pump by starting in shallow water? no way
I don't expect parts to last 20 years, alum is good for hulls not impellers. we are hard on parts if it will go through the intake grate it will go through the pump and I might have to sharpen the impeller. My avatar is a good warning to others as to what we like to play in
I can't drink enough beer to be related to Hanson :rollside:
So a few years ago we are camping at rollins lake in Colfax Ca.
A guy with a sanger hydro jet is tunning a little & running the boat parrelel to the shore.
My buddy Paul mentions to the guy that he migh not want to do that, she shrugs Paul off.
A few minutes later the guy wades around the ass of the boat & falls in the hole that his pump has created. Soon after that the motor started to labor & die. The hydro spent the rest of the weekend on the trailer.
I realize the river race deals are built to run in the shallow stuf. I am wondering, is the forward motion would allow the pump not to suck up to much stuf???
So a few years ago we are camping at rollins lake in Colfax Ca.
A guy with a sanger hydro jet is tunning a little & running the boat parrelel to the shore.
My buddy Paul mentions to the guy that he migh not want to do that, she shrugs Paul off.
A few minutes later the guy wades around the ass of the boat & falls in the hole that his pump has created. Soon after that the motor started to labor & die. The hydro spent the rest of the weekend on the trailer.
I realize the river race deals are built to run in the shallow stuf. I am wondering, is the forward motion would allow the pump not to suck up to much stuf???
Morg
He was running the boat stationary/anchored in one spot?
Not much bigger than 1/2" will get through the grates we run and if it does it will go straight through. You do not want to follow to close in the tight stuff as rocks spit at you hurt :)
The loader stuff that the drag guys and the lake guys run don't work on the river. The marathon boats run spoons instead. Mine is to slow to need either
Air boat?
Ya got me!! :p
Dang. this tread is stoopid,,,,,
caint beleive I jest read it.
jets r fer homos. end of the storey.
If you dont know that by now, aint worth esplainin,,,,
Can you give me the # of a jetboat shop or manufacture that would recommend running in a foot of water is good for a pump.....
Here is a list I swiped from River jet magazine (yes they too have a magazine)
Aliboats
Private Bag 62
Maun, Botswana,
Phone: 267-686-0201
Fax: 267-686-0714
Almar Boats
2301 East Dock St.
Tacoma, WA 98402-2915
Phone: 253-572-2877
Fax: 253-572-0065
Alumacraft
315 West St. Julien St.
St. Peter, MN 56082
Phone: 507-931-1050
Fax: 507-931-9056
Alumaweld Boats, Inc.
2000 Rogue River Dr.
Eagle Point, OR 97524
Phone: 541-826-7171
Fax: 541-826-6701
Apache Sea Master
PO Box 238
Hoskins, NE 68740
Phone: 402-371-1400
Fax: 402-565-4845
Armstrong Marine
255566 Highway 101
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Phone: 360-457-5752
Fax: 360-457-5753
Aztec Fabrications, Inc.
1495 Sycamore St.
Clarkston, WA 99403
Phone: 509-751-1073
Bentz Boats
613 Bryden Avenue, #C
PMB 394 Lewiston, ID 83501
Phone: 208-746-7035
Fax: 208-750-0037
Blazer Jet Boats
Rtl Box 230 M1
Ellington, MO 63638
Phone: 573-663-3266
Fax: 573-663-2244
Bloodworth Boats
307 George Creek Rd.
Asotin, WA 99402
Phone: 509-243-1131
Boulton Power Boats
6241 Crater Lake Highway
Central Point, OR 97524
Phone: 541-826-7330
Fax: 541-826-7340
Broadwater Industries, Ltd.
247 1st Avenue, East
Prince Rupert, BC V8J-1A
Phone: 250-624-5158
Fax: 250-624-5668
Coastal Craft
Welded Aluminum Boats Ltd.
PO Box 860 Gibsons, BC V0N-1V0
Phone: 604-886-3004
Fax: 604-886-4537
Custom Weld Boats
PO Box 309
Lewiston, ID 83501
Phone: 208-750-1313
Fax: 208-746-8445
Double Barrel Racing Team
7352 Old Bruneau Highway
Marsing, ID 83639
Phone: 208-573-2730
Fax: 208-896-4927
Fish-Rite, Inc.
1419 Justice Road
Central Point, OR 97502
Phone: 800-575-2243
Gaterboats Jet
4554 Highway H.
Sullivan, MO 63080
Phone: 573-627-4287
Fax: 573-627-2051
Harbercraft Jetcraft
67 Highway 97A
Vernon, BC V1B-3S1
Phone: 888-545-9171
Fax: 250-545-4433
Hewes Marine Company
213 Highway 395 North
Colville, WA 99114
Phone: 800-326-6594
Fax: 509-684-4663
Klamath River Jet Boats
PO Box 2093
Vallejo, CA 94592
Phone: 707-643-0447
Koffler Boats
90017 Greenhill Road
Eugene, OR 97402
Phone: 541-688-6093
Fax: 541-688-79858
Legend Boats
Regional Road 55
Whitfish, Sudbury, ON P0M-3E0
Phone: 705-866-2821
Fax: 705-866-2616
Legend Craft
2844 Cow Patty Trail
Alexander, AZ 72002
Phone: 501- 316-4409
Fax: 501- 316-4802
LifeTimer Boats
#1-2905 Allenby Road
Duncan, BC V9L-6W2
Phone: 250-748-2187
Fax: 250-745-7431
Marathon Marine Manufacturing, Ltd.
7719-44 A St.
Edmonton, AB T6B-2R5
Phone: 866-440-6800
Fax: 780-469-8079
Maxweld Boats
PO Box 326
Hebo, OR 97122
Phone: 503-392-3911
Fax: 503-392-3969
Motion Marine
22768 S. Johnson Road
West Linn, OR 97068
Phone: 888-290-1802
Fax: 503-557-1732
North River Jet Boats, Inc.
PO Box 340
Roseburg, OR 97470
Phone: 888-442-1330
Fax: 503-557-1732
Northwest Jet Boats, Inc.
22112 Commercial Avenue
Pasco, WA 99301
Phone: 509-545-5586
Fax: 509-545-6813
Norvelle Boats
23405 Miami Foley Road
Nehalem, OR 97131
Phone: 503-322-0014
Fax: www.norvelleboats.com
Oquawka Boats and Fabrication, Ltd.
R.R. #1 Box 105J
Oquawka, IL 61469-0091
Phone: 309-867-2213
Outlaw Eagle Manufacturing LTD
6732 65th Ave.
Red Deer, AB T4P-1A5
Phone: 403-347-4565
Fax: 403-343-7932
Precision Weld Custom Boats Inc.
2422 N.E. 172Ave.
Vancouver, WA 98684
Phone: 360-607-3546
Rapid Craft Aluminum Boats
102 N. 740 W.
Blackfoot, ID 83221
Phone: 208-785-5393
Renaissance Group/Duckworth/Weldcraft
PO Box 580
Clarkston, WA 99403
Phone: 509-758-9831
Fax: 509-758-8809
Riddle Marine
607 Snake River Avenue
Lewiston, ID 83501
Phone: 208-743-2660
River Wild Custom Aluminum Boats
1450 SE M Street
Grants Pass, OR
Phone: (541) 955-1970
Rogue Jet Boatworks
1116 East Vilas Road
Medford, OR 97502
Phone: 541-944-2155
Fax: 541-245-6119
Schafer's Boat Inc.
R.R. #2 Box 909
L'Anse, MI 49946
Phone: 906-524-5136
Scully's Aluminum and Fabrication
1015 Stephensville Road
Morgan City, LA 70381
Phone: 985-385-1323
Fax: 985-384-5146
Shoal Runner Boats, Ltd.
553 Doolittle Outer Road
Rolla, MO 65401
Phone: 888-762-3777
Fax: 573-762-3090
Silver Streak Boats, Ltd.
6804 West Coast Road
Sooke, BC V0S-1N0
Phone: 877-659-4143
Fax: 250-642-6390
Sprint Marine
PO Box 520069
Big Lake, AK 99652
Phone: 907-892-6692
Fax: 907-892-6329
Thunder Jet River Boats
PO Box 460
Clarkston, WA 99403
Phone: 509-769-2142
Fax: 509-769-2146
Tuff Boat
PO Box 492
Preston, WA 98050
Phone: 877-583-8833
Turner Marine (River Pro)
PO Box 77
Hillsboro, MO 63050
Phone: 314-378-2685 (cell)
William Munson Company
18130 Sunset Way
Edmonds, WA 98026
Phone: 360-424-3055
Fax: 425-774-2408
Willie Boats
1440 Justice Road
Central Point, OR 97502
Phone: 541-779-4141
Fax: 541-779-9346
Winninghoff Boats, Inc.
55 Warehouse Lane
Rowley, MA 01969
Phone: 978-948-2314
Fax: 978-948-2315
Wolf Boats
2541 Coleman Road
Courtenay, BC V9J-1T8
Phone: 250-334-0027
Fax: 250-334-0067
Wooldridge Boats
9224 Martin Luther King Jr. Way South
Seattle, WA 98118
Phone: 206-722-8998
Here is a link to their Bios. Just click the Company and it will take you to the bio
http://www.riverjetmagazine.com/index.cfm?fuse=bio
Now believe it or not Aggressors' are widely used in the Northern states and in Canada on these types of boats. The biggest Aggressor Dealer is in Canada.
Jet pumps in aluminum boats on a shallow river or up through the rapids is cool shiat. I have ridden in them and driven them and that is what they're intended use should be...Bottom Feeder, I won't diss a river boat.
Shallow isn't 3', its 3". Really shallow is a dry sand bar you have to slide accross. I realize that you are saying in the traditional lake sense a V drive can handler shallower water than they get credit for, but I'll race any V drive you want as long as I get to choose the course. Shallow water moves, has sand bars, some class III white water, etc. As far as damaging my jet, we'll I haven't seen it yet. I've run over logs, not sticks....logs, sand bars, gravel bars, even had my grate completely clogged by rocks. I've had to push my boat off a gravel bar just to get it wet enough to float. Only time its ever been in the shop is when I put some pretty sizeable dents in the bottom, had to be fixed with a sledge hammer. Never even opened my pump up to look at my impeller and clearances because I've never lost any speed or gained any RPM for the over 150 hrs of shallow water running I've done. I'm not here to knock V drives, I love all boats, just want to make sure the V drivers understand there is a entire group of us who are slightly insane and and run some very shallow water w/o damaging our jets-Aluminum Squirt
Rather than "bang heads" I'll suggest making the Dana into a V- drive. That hull is off of a Hornet and I have rigged a few Dana 19's and Hornet 19's as V- drives. If you have more than 650hp (for real!) it will run very well, if you really don't have that kind of power, don't bother! The boat has full stringers and it needs only 'minor' bottom work to go V-drive! OK you guys can go back to your "fight'n"!