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<blockquote data-quote="Darkside" data-source="post: 224906" data-attributes="member: 6899"><p>Thanks Seth, my previous 3 Outboard jet boats had .190 aluminum with 1/2" UHMW screwed on the bottom. Top speed in a custom 1866 was a good 6-7 miles per hour slower than yours. Even still, low 30's was usually fast enough. In the summer our river looks like this for a few dozen miles. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/susq.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="https://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2841/susq.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>In the summer you can't manage to miss all of these all of the time. As the water rises to running levels, you can't see every "V" marker and when the wind blows (it's a half mile wide) You see no evidence but know these goonies are just uner the surface. As a boater, you have two choices if you're out there... forced to putt or go for it. Guys with .100 do well, but the tend to cave their boats in if they misread a line. The .190 and 1/2 UHMW give you a few mulligans each day. </p><p></p><p>Granted, there are those who bash those heavier hulls in too. My latest boat is also a .190 bottom with an extra 11' x 23" .250 running up the middle. I still cringe when I'm running it 40 mph over or around this stuff. Especially when I have a 15-20% of the throttle left. If you want to see heavy boats, come see us out east some time LOL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darkside, post: 224906, member: 6899"] Thanks Seth, my previous 3 Outboard jet boats had .190 aluminum with 1/2" UHMW screwed on the bottom. Top speed in a custom 1866 was a good 6-7 miles per hour slower than yours. Even still, low 30's was usually fast enough. In the summer our river looks like this for a few dozen miles. [url=https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/susq.jpg/][img]https://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2841/susq.jpg[/img][/url] In the summer you can't manage to miss all of these all of the time. As the water rises to running levels, you can't see every "V" marker and when the wind blows (it's a half mile wide) You see no evidence but know these goonies are just uner the surface. As a boater, you have two choices if you're out there... forced to putt or go for it. Guys with .100 do well, but the tend to cave their boats in if they misread a line. The .190 and 1/2 UHMW give you a few mulligans each day. Granted, there are those who bash those heavier hulls in too. My latest boat is also a .190 bottom with an extra 11' x 23" .250 running up the middle. I still cringe when I'm running it 40 mph over or around this stuff. Especially when I have a 15-20% of the throttle left. If you want to see heavy boats, come see us out east some time LOL. [/QUOTE]
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