The Worlds Fastest Hydrostream

[CUDA]

I was a fan of the V bottom 20 Venus It would crush waves, useable speed not having to worry about every little wave.

Bull , you must have had a light one, any Idea?

[CUDA]

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention -->@Da Bull<!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> Have you driven a venom? I wonder how those compare? I've only ridden in one, but it kicked like a mule off the line, and ran like it was on a string. Never really thought of HST as a fast Stream, but all the ones I ran with were full interior heavy layups, so there's that.

Can't compare the two the Venom was a Jimmy C boat designed about 20 years ago with the help of ex Allison employees (If I remember right) the old real Hydrostream's from 40 years ago had a smaller pad.

The Venom never got the respect It deserves, If Andy Driver wanted to he could have broke 130mph with the motors he had

[tcrabtree]

Cuda, as far as drag racing goes The venom is the most respected hull in ODBA / DSRA lakeracer period .. The venom hull has dominated almost every race in both clubs over the last several years..

[CUDA]

That's what I'm getting at most don't know what a good design it Is, I've heard some stories about the different builders who produced sub quality boat's giving all of them a bad name, does anyone still build them?

[tcrabtree]

Far as I know Chub at Stroker still has the molds & may be in the process of building again . Possibly even a venom bass boat

[tnelsmn]

That's what I'm getting at most don't know what a good design it Is, I've heard some stories about the different builders who produced sub quality boat's giving all of them a bad name, does anyone still build them?

There is a guy over on FB who is pulling molds off of one right now. Posted pictures of the deck mold a few days ago. He made some changes to the deck plug. Building them under the name Venom Performance Boats. Haven't built a complete boat yet to my knowledge.

https://www.facebook.com/venomperformanceboats

[XstreamVking]

Any idea what state or part of the country he was building them in?

[tnelsmn]

Any idea what state or part of the country he was building them in?

Tennessee I believe.

[Instigator]

I remember that but not the verification.

I have a friend preparing a similar hull to go after those astronomical #s and said he searched, and could find nothing, substantiating those claims.

Told my buddy that I remembered it happening and accepted it as gospel.
That was based on what I saw/read on here.

And that was all second hand, on the internet 😉

But to the subject at hand, fast in a Stream is wayyy different than fast in a STV.
Ive done both.

Just can't talk about STV big numbers without mentioning Michael Dixon's STV that he ran 151+, with two confirmed GPS units clocking, at Stockton Straight on the Savannah River a number of years ago. Oh yeah I forgot ...........that was upstream​!​ There's no video of that run, but you can watch him run it 143 at the Suwanee, on youtube. That 151 is the record for a multi-passenger SO boat of that type.

[CUDA]

Don't know If you saw the build pictures XCF99 has published but those strakes he added next to the pad and a perfectly straight sharp pad he developed makes It a sweet driving controlled event not like a stock one, My design never drove like a V bottom instead much like a tunnel because the 11.5 inch pad, child's play really. A STV's pad is a little lower than side the sponsions and If you look at one over 100 with just a driver the sponsion's are skimming the surface with the 11 inch pad, from what I remember (I had a MVP version) It had a slight concave to the pad.
Roark Summerford was way ahead of his time.

[Da Bull]

I`ve never driven a Venom but always wanted to. I had no idea that they were capable of running over 120 and staying on the water.

[mikesufka]

I thought my dad's Hydrostream was fast, until I raced another one and found out I wasn't - LOL.

MDS

[Capt.Insane-o]

I've gotten away with a lot in hydrostreams. 100 is fine with me in the small v bottoms. My HST is good to 115 after that the angle of attack is inconsistent sometimes it's good sometimes not. Always wanted a Venom but life things got in the way..especially in 05.

I like the accents on the deck. For sure will be keeping an eye on this. At this point I am about ready to broom almost everything out the door boatwise and start over.

[Fl Boy in ILL]

Were you running a cleaver?Ugenes 117 run was with a modified cleaver that he added bow lift and took out stern lift till it was perfect.my buddy never did like a cleaver on his YT.His best prop was a 32 hoss,when he went by us all that was in the water was 2" of sponsons as far as we could see,had his wife in the boat bumping 8000.It's a light lay up though.

I was there when him Eugene and Dixon ran. Dixon was like 1 mph faster in the Eliminator the Gene was in the Stream, I have a picture somewhere

Rick Conklin

[Da Bull]

I was a fan of the V bottom 20 Venus It would crush waves, useable speed not having to worry about every little wave.

Bull , you must have had a light one, any Idea?

Cuda I never said my HST was fast. Fact is it was slow. I didn`t have any real power on it plus it was heavy.