Jetboat

[Guest]

I've just bought myself a great new toy for next summer and I wondered if anyone knows anything about it.
Its a 12ft jetboat with a 2 cylinder, 2 stroke engine that is badged STING and HUNTING. It looks a bit like a 40HP Rotax plane engine.
Anyone had any experience with jetboats.
Any comments welcomed.

 

[chippie]

It sounds like it will be a fast boat.

 

[castaway]

Jason

Sorry mate I think you are prob on the wrong forum here. Try the Motor boat one. Most of us would rather spend the weekend cleaning the head ( toilet )rather than be caught near a jet boat. (Unless its a 50s classic of course). Just stay away from me when Im in my dinghy with a weeks worth of supplies!!

Good luck anyway.

Nick

 

[simongoldthorpe]

Wrong response! Don't perpetuate the yotties v stinkpot battle. This is afterall the Practical Boat (not just sail) Owners site.
I'd rather be on any kind of boat than cleaning your heads!

 

[castaway]

Ill have you know my heads (both fore and aft) are a delight to behold!
ps. when was the last time you saw a jet boat in PBO? .... Whereas I know that you chaps have listings of motor boats past and present that have been refered to in the MB pages ;-)

Redgs Nick

 

[Guest]

Sorry if you think the post is misplaced. There is generally a vast amount of knowledge floating around in this forum. This is a highly unusual old boat with an extremely limited supply of information. People on this forum often have had a wide variety of craft and experience and I was hoping to tap into that.
I think you will find me to be a most considerate boat user and I have not to my knowledge annoyed anybody in ten years of boating.
Again if anybody has any information about the boat and especially the engine, I would appreciate it.

Jason (my other boats a diesel) Fuller

 

[Twister_Ken]

All I know on jetboats is that I once read a book called something like "From the mountains to the sea". in which Sir Edmund Hilary and a bunch of assorted testosterone junkies hauled some as far up into the Himalaya as they could get, then 'white-watered' and cruised down to the Indian ocean.

They sound an absolute hoot - good luck.