OT-sorta....well mid-engined anyway, my lull in the 914 project...project Options

[Sparky]

I love it!! I've got a smiilari idea in mind using two of the deep vee skiff hulls grafted to a jon boat hull to create a tunnel hull. Power would come from a Subbie mated to a SeaDoo jet drive. I need to finish the house and atleast one of the cars first.... BUt i's on my list!

Ohh quick question did the Coast Guard give you any hassles?

My best,
Mike D.

[Rhodes71/914]

That is really cool, I love boat projects. Very cool idea with the jet in the Carolina skiff, go pretty much anywhere in flat water. I hope to be building a stitch and glue wood skiff next summer, more of a semi-V hull, made for Alaska waters.

[Mueller]

that is just too cool...looks like you did a great job on it...I'd love to build a small boat, canoe or something like that....only problem is that it cannot be "petrol" powered for the reservoir near my house...I only live a few minutes from the Delta, but too many a-holes out there in their speedboats and I'd get ran over in a minute (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

I nominate you for best project of the week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[flyloki]

I just love this kind of stuff..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Homebrewing something really freakin' cool with little investment and lots of ingenuity just warms the the cockles of my cheap-skate junkyard heart.

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[Root_Werks]

This project rocks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mueba.gif)

[sixnotfour]

I have been making motor lifts for a buddy who guides in alaska, So that you can raise and lower
the motor for water depth of river , with a lever.
I am forwarding him the pics of your boat right now. Very Cool (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[airsix]

I have been making motor lifts for a buddy who guides in alaska, So that you can raise and lower
the motor for water depth of river , with a lever.
I am forwarding him the pics of your boat right now. Very Cool (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Nothing beats a jet for shallow water. In the Rocky Mountain rivers like the Snake and Salmon all guides use aluminum jet boats (automotive v8 powered mostly). You can run them right up through rappids, skid them across boulders, beach them anywhere... They are the Jeep of the river. Jet's do not provide a performance or efficiency advantage over a prop - the advantage is the shallow water ability, but it's a BIG advantage.

-Ben M.

[machina]

OK, here is my marine science project. Built it in '91

Guy here in Miami had a shop that made beautiful stripper canoes. I worked in his shop and he taught me as I went. Had to build all the station shapes for the hulls and the fixtures to hold them.

Designed the alu frame and drive on CAD and a friend welded it up for me. Rolla donated a surfacing propeller to make it go.

Now the hulls are hanging in my garage.

[sixnotfour]

[QUOTE]Jet's do not provide a performance or efficiency advantage over a prop - the advantage is the shallow water ability, but it's a BIG advantage.

That is what he said . they use the prop because they run supplies back and forth raise the motor to float the river and fly fish.

[East coaster]

I dig the human powered cat. There's a website I stumbled on when researching jetboat stuff that had a bunch of human powered designs. The concept is cool.

[boxstr]

That is to kewl. I remeber in 1993 there was a company here in the PNW that manufactured a small 16 foot aluminum jet boat with a snowmbile motor and a small jet drive, it was called Midjet. I almost bought one but last minute bought a larger 20 foot Alumaweld jet boat, I still love that idea of the small jet boat.
CCLINFISHON