Quickest 0- to 60 MPH Boats?

[Pogo]

How quick 0~60 would an SS2000 with a 280 Merc on it?

[patchesII]

Depends largely on the prop? With a 24 Yamaha Drag maybe 4 sec or so

[Pogo]

That's as quick as a newer 911 Turbo!!! Top end with that prop?

[Raceman]

I Love the idea of smoking a supercharged wave runner from a stand still What are some of the quickest outboard hulls and motor combinations to achieve this goal? Not talking about motors with super low pitched props that squash top end...Just a real good balanced package that scream on acceleration and achieve big top end...Real boats not ultra light race boats...Thanks

The question was NOT motors with super low pitched props, just real good balance packages, real boats not ultra light race boats. If that's the criteria I don't think there's anything that will run with a stock supercharged PWC. SeaDoo advertises 0 to 55 in 2.9 seconds for the RXP X. I just traded mine for an RXT X because everybody in the family hated the P at anything under 40 MPH. The RXT X (three seater with the same engine) still accelerates mighty hard and only gives up a couple of tenths in the zero to 60 range. I don't know about supercharged wave runners, but don't think you'll be finding a combo within your restrictions that'll run with a SeaDoo in either of the X versions from zero to sixty. The boat in my signature picture had a 300 drag with a IV Speedmaster and from a standstill it'd get blown away to sixty.

Here's what we just traded:

[patchesII]

Very true. He excluded the outboards that can run to 60 mph with a jet ski

[CRMERC]

I remember that little boat. I think we were still going to the cookie lady beach back then. that thing went from stand still to top end in about 50 feet.

[CRMERC]

I was just thinking about Raceman today.......I was trying to convince my wife that we need a V6 merc in the play room down stairs as a decoration. When she said No! I told her you had one in your kitchen and that unlike her your wife was cool.

[deckofficer]

The question was NOT motors with super low pitched props, just real good balance packages, real boats not ultra light race boats. If that's the criteria I don't think there's anything that will run with a stock supercharged PWC. SeaDoo advertises 0 to 55 in 2.9 seconds for the RXP X. I just traded mine for an RXT X because everybody in the family hated the P at anything under 40 MPH. The RXT X (three seater with the same engine) still accelerates mighty hard and only gives up a couple of tenths in the zero to 60 range. I don't know about supercharged wave runners, but don't think you'll be finding a combo within your restrictions that'll run with a SeaDoo in either of the X versions from zero to sixty. The boat in my signature picture had a 300 drag with a IV Speedmaster and from a standstill it'd get blown away to sixty.

Here's what we just traded:

I agree. Hard to beat power to weight ratio of some of the pwc's.

[XstreamVking]

Awesome looking cat there deck officer.....

[deckofficer]

Thanks but not mine. Life threw me a curve when my dad needed care for 6 years. The cat is a Chris White design and he is the go fast guy for cruising cats. When I joined this forum my plans was to buy it and cruise, hence the picture in my sig. After dad passed I moved to New Mexico and live with my plane in a residential air park. No bodies of water around here. I'm looking for a summer residence on a lake in northern Idaho and that is why I'm looking at boats again, this time for inland waters.

[XstreamVking]

I keep saying, i'm selling it all and going cruising. That would be my dream boat.....Oh, well. Back to jet ski's and how fast they are....

[deckofficer]

Your right, sorry about going off topic. It is funny how in boating some of us go full circle and return to our original passion. For me it was sailing in the 60's to Vee drive flat bottom boats in the 70's. I have a bucket list of going 100 mph on water, 200 mph on land and 300 mph flying. The old hemi powered flattie with a ski prop only managed 85 mph. Unless I fly someone else's plane I'm never going to see 300 mph flying. I do have a Cadillac CTS-V that has a speed limiter set at 197 mph, so a possibility on land for my bucket list. But the lake I'm looking to buy a summer lake front home has a speed limit, so no chance of 100 mph on water. I joined this forum about 6 years ago to get more info on the SVT tunnel boats because some time ago (long before the Internet) I read in Hot Boat magazine that they were the fastest hole shot boat available at that time. Since I can't fully utilize their speed on a lake with speed limits I've decided on hole shot performance. It was this forum that opened my eyes to pwc's advancements over the years and one in particular, the Yamaha GP 1800. Out of the box 0 to 60 in around 4.5 seconds and with mods 3 seconds are probably possible. As much as I've always wanted a SVT, for a lake with speed limits the hole shot fun of a pwc is better suited. I've always enjoyed acceleration, the 1923 Track-T in my avatar is 1790 lbs and 525 hp.

[90 5.0]

The quickest outboards are Unlimited drag boats followed up by the Outlaw/Pro Drag boats. From 7.5 mph to 60 happens way under 3 seconds

I’ve never ran into a jet ski that could hang with my bass boat from a punch in full fishing trim, and playing on the river my the house in my prostock boat with a 28p on it I still snatch them out of the hole too.

[Krazymaan]

PWC's cannot be manufactured to go over 70 - 72 mph. Its the law. You can tweek it if you want too. So they get the advantage of hitting 7500 RPMs super quick because they know they are limited by law. So if you wanted to compare a boat to a PWC then you would get to change out the prop so your top end was 70ish as well. Then I think a PWC would struggle to keep up.

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[CUDA]

I got a 240 :1 15 inch lower unit for sale