I'm gonna need a faster boat!

[Chaz]

Miami to Orlando .. the Cubans and Porto-Ricans are pretty serious about their "river lice".
Florida is a free state. Two strokes and ski's ain't goin no where ...

[Paul Vaillancourt]

I have heard that they are speed limited from the factory but don't know how true this is.

According to Google, Rotax (SeaDoo) and Kawasaki both have 300, 310, 325hp motors for their watercraft. In-Credible. =8-O

On the physics front, that something that small and (relatively) light only does 80 with 300+ hp is a testament to how in-efficient jet drives are for high speeds.

-Peter

[VkingMike]

Stock they hit 72mph then back off a few mph, mandated by Government.

[JPEROG]

The stuff shown in the video that Charlie posted is pretty much all turbo conversions with billet blocks and lots of aftermarket internals turning them really hard. These are set up for short blast to 125+ (not the stuff that we encounter on the river **YET**). The stock yamaha H.O. supercharged versions are still weapons but nothing like the 50+p.s.i. turbo conversions. I personally can't imagine running those speeds on a ski.

Joe

[CUDA]

I’m as irritated by them as the next bloke. But we have to be diligent not to let our rage start to demand government to step in. When Steve Wynn was bugged by personal watercraft 20 years ago, he leveraged his money and influence to get “two strokes” banned because that’s what they all were back then. BUT it came this close =><= to getting us all swept up and away too. That was Lake Tahoe. There are still tons of places that enacted a ban on ALL two strokes, not just Tahoe. But some like Lake Mead, just barely escaped the .gov butcher’s knife. They banned two stroke watercraft and said they were going to ban two stroke outboards later. That was 13 years ago so maybe we have escaped for now.

Anyway, just a little nudge to be careful what we wish for. Sometimes the grenade we drop is closer to us than we thought it would be.

Ski, love the Valero. Would be super interested to hear back from you how it handles. Are you going to put your new 2.4/200 on it?

-Peter

Need to ban you

[pcrussell50]

Need to ban you

???

Sorry mate. That's a sentence fragment, and not enough information for anyone to understand your point. Can you flesh out your position, so the rest of us can understand you?

-Peter

[CUDA]

Found the perfect boat for you, I heard It fly's

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...92187273%22%7D

Stick your bad A$$ V 4 OMC and you will be in the Stratosphere, Just have to use Niagara Falls as your run way

[pcrussell50]

Off topic thread jack alert... Don't read if you want to stay on topic...

Found the perfect boat for you, I heard It fly's
...clipped your link. I'm not on Fb anyway...
Stick your bad A$$ V 4 OMC and you will be in the Stratosphere, Just have to use Niagara Falls as your run way

Sadly, I haven't run one of my V4 crossflows in a few years now. Gone all Merc V6. A 2.4/200 for our fast recreational boat, and a Merc 90hp FourStroke for our slower recreational boat, (17 Whaler). Yes. Four stroke. It's big and heavy, but it's on a Whaler, so it can handle it. Barely. Super quiet at idle. Not so much at cruise.

I really need to find the time to attend to my crossflows. One a Frankenstein 140, is on my Viper. But the Viper has a raised transom and the motor sucks air at certain speeds. I think I need to cone it with a LWP. But girls as 10 and 14 now, and need more and more attention. I was going to start a thread to talk about what if any options there are besides Bobs/LWP. Maybe it will be enough to just fill in the top holes?

-Peter

[Greg G]

Gave it a quick powerwash. Looks a wee bit better when wet. The gelcoat is faded to hell. But not a lot of real damage. I found 3 real chips and scratches so far. I am sure their is more. I am wondering if I can just sand off the faded gelcoat like I did my Checkmate's gelcoat. I think that was worse.
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Have someone who is a competent color sander take a look at it. They will know if it can be brought back. Probably not a DIY job.

[Chaz]

Need to ban you

He's an airline pilot .. you pull weeds .. see the difference ???

[ctobias1984]

Gave it a quick powerwash. Looks a wee bit better when wet. The gelcoat is faded to hell. But not a lot of real damage. I found 3 real chips and scratches so far. I am sure their is more. I am wondering if I can just sand off the faded gelcoat like I did my Checkmate's gelcoat. I think that was worse.
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That may clean up. Try a test spot wet sanding with 800/1000/1500/2000 and then buff with compound and see how it comes out.

[skialot2]

When I was fueling up the boat today there was a guy with a jetski at the gas station. He said his ski could do 105 mph. But he said he doesn't have the balls to go that fast. He said he never broke 90. Just to scary.

[Chaz]

Watch some videos of those guys going 130 - 140 on those things. The ones that jump off the throttle, just about go over the bars. I don't imagine you make to many sudden moves without paying the price.

[skialot2]

Watch some videos of those guys going 130 - 140 on those things. The ones that jump off the throttle, just about go over the bars. I don't imagine you make to many sudden moves without paying the price.

Already have. Looks like the guy almost ate the handlebars when he backed off.

[skialot2]

This was fun. Beat some jetski's then hit 75 mph for the first time.