I've had a blow over in a flat bottom drag boat. At a relatively low speed of 90mph. I was wearing all the proper safety gear including a small chute that slows you down. Broken ribs, broken arm and black and blue all over. My safety gear kept me alive and minimized my injuries. To get into that boat with no equipment is just plain stupid.
Beautiful boat!! Great video and to see a shovel nose up in Ontario, Many times ive taken my hydro out without wearing life jacket for a short slow scoot on smooth water!!. Not a big deal !! Cant see anywhere in the video where it says A WOT pass!! Haters... give your head a shake. This was a car show... Not a boat race!!
Bet the lake front property owners would LOVE that beautiful music about 8am on a Sunday. Should have had Zoomie pipes instead of Headers. Made Everyone's Life more beautiful eh?? LMFAO
I have been 92 mph in a 78 Apollo Jet boat with a big block Chevy, 115 mph in a two seat out board with a 200 hp black max, but I wore a life vest and helmet, once you flip, you're just along for the ride.
I used to race one of these in quarter mile drag boats at the river. This is a 72 or 74 Hondo. They are heavy boats but are built like tanks. Our boat had a 478ci chevy that put out around 750 hp. We ran around 85 in water and I can tell you this, after 60 everything turns into the same second. One big blur. Hell of a lot of fun though.
I think my reply was to a guy beside me asking about "what the water was coming out the side" Most people know it's water cooled, some don't so I answered the question. I'm glad you find Canadians amusing, I'll make more videos for your entertainment. Maybe I'll take my camera to the ice drags and ask if snowmobiles are water cooled from the lake :)
Naw, going by the comments on this page, it looks like anyone that has ever seen one of these things run in person is simply amazed that they aren't wearing helmets et al. Things can go very wrong, very fast, in a very concrete way.
The best part of hiking in the mountains along mountain rivers is that there are no boats. Well, maybe a kayak or two. Those are quiet enough and any yelling associated with them is usually drowned out by the waterfall that inspired the yell. So that's all good.
"Its water cooled. Spittin' it ewt there." Ahhaahaahahahaha! "Everybody got their cameras ewt, eh?" Ahhaaaaaaaahahahahaha! Ohh my. Canadians are hilarious.
I remember him when I was a teenager going to Bell High school, he always built the craziest shit. I remember one year he built this chevy wagon with a big block, thing was mental fast.
So sometimes it can be confusing as to what safty gear to bring along for a day on the water, i.e. PFD's, helmet, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, flares, food, water, means of starting a fire, signal mirror, shoes, personnel locator, you get the point. So how do you know what to bring? If you need a parachute you need everything else.
Engine is shut down at 2:41 to properly engage V-Drive. Output from engine points to the bow and ties into a V type gearbox with the propeller shaft exiting just in front of the transom. This is a clutch-less drive line. To attempt to engage the V-Drive with the engine running will "crash" the gears and cause damage to them.
Yeah, the guy that said that is a prime candidate for what Lincoln was quoted as saying : "It is better for one to not say anything and be thought an idiot than to open one's mouth and lose all doubt." Something like that. "It's water cooled. Spittin it out there." wow......
Hey Sammy, out of the mouths of babes, obviously you don't know about this kind of boat. They are indeed water cooled. On a Vee drive like this the water gets pulled in from a pickup back at the transom and cycled through the block. No radiator...
