Hamilton Turn

[old rigger]

In 1963 I had my first jet boat. It was a Buhler Turbo Craft with a Hamilton Jet in it.....
I've posted these before but because there's lots of newbs here that might want to see them for the first time, I'll post them again.
These little clips are of Hamilton going up the Colorado river in 1960 testing his new jet drives. This isn't the part of the river that we all know and love, it's the rough part, up in the Grand Canyon. National Geographic did a story on it too.
http://www.nzjetboating.com/colorado1.wmv
http://www.nzjetboating.com/colorado2.wmv
http://www.nzjetboating.com/speech.wmv

[67weimann]

I've posted these before but because there's lots of newbs here that might want to see them for the first time
you calling me a FNG or what?

[speedboats]

Easy to do, especially if your boat is set up for it. Have to find some more pics of these. Basically 'fake' a turn in one direction, then quickly turn in the other, as the boat starts to bite come straight off the gas and the boat will do the rest. Some boats will need to be at faster speeds than others. Beware you go through some good G forces, and if you are sitting in the front and are going to quickly this can throw you around the boat.

[kiwi]

Called the Hamilton turn after Bill Hamilton who invented the jetboat
Take a look at a sprint boat doing a couple of turns by mistake.
1000HP and 12-13 foot I would guess. (not my boat)
http://www.nzjetboating.com/spinout.mpeg
If you have the right boat you can do turn after turn. Just one thing your oil pickup must be able to keep the pressure up even when all the oil is on one side of the sump ! So far I have given 4 people bruised arms because they were not holding on tight enough. LOL

[MWJSOne]

Here is a good line of photos from the Kiwi Jet page of the Hamilton Turn
http://www.nzjetboating.com/yabbse/i...p?topic=7543.0
Anybody in the Ga /NC /Tenn area of Brison City NC can check out Parron Mitchels handie work from
Recreational Performance Machines
www.speedboats.co.nz
Parron built the tour boat that the Smokey Mountain Jet Boat runs on the lake there
and also builds a race tunnel hull avl and taking orders here via Midwest Jet Sprint.