Chewie
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Well over a very cold winter my project is finally mostly done.
After hitting a rock last year and having to have shoulder surgery and a lump still in my leg I decided to make some changes to my current setup. I cut the damaged bottom of my boat out and welded a new section in. My boat had a drain that that ran the length of the boat and I thought it was disturbing the jet in the turns. It would cavitate and I would lose momentum in the turns, not good. I also made all aluminum console that now sits about 3/4 up in the middle of the boat, and I mean my good friend and neighbor "Brad" made it and I just gave him an idea of what I wanted. I can weld aluminum but he's better. The old side console was in the rear and I couldn't see very well in the shallow waters. The river we mostly run is very rocky in places. I also retired my 1972 85 horse Johnson and bought a 1988 150 GT Johnson and put a jet foot on it.
I had the console rhino lined and also the new section (inside) of aluminum we welded in.
Sunday I finally got to test what we had done.
The boat handles 100% better, no cavitaion in the corners, was awesome. With the new motor, fuel and 3 people (roughly 1000lbs) it planed in about 30 ft, I didn't think that was bad for a 2072 pig. It stays on plane at very low throttle so I'm pretty pleased. The top end was not what I expected but o well, I know it's never gonna be a rocket. It has the standard aluminum impeller.
Hopefully my pictures loaded. The pictures from the build are to big, the only pics that would load are of the test run. One of the pictures are at 1/2 throttle (i think the bottom one) and the other one is when I opened her up. I will try and figure out how to load the other pictures.
After hitting a rock last year and having to have shoulder surgery and a lump still in my leg I decided to make some changes to my current setup. I cut the damaged bottom of my boat out and welded a new section in. My boat had a drain that that ran the length of the boat and I thought it was disturbing the jet in the turns. It would cavitate and I would lose momentum in the turns, not good. I also made all aluminum console that now sits about 3/4 up in the middle of the boat, and I mean my good friend and neighbor "Brad" made it and I just gave him an idea of what I wanted. I can weld aluminum but he's better. The old side console was in the rear and I couldn't see very well in the shallow waters. The river we mostly run is very rocky in places. I also retired my 1972 85 horse Johnson and bought a 1988 150 GT Johnson and put a jet foot on it.
I had the console rhino lined and also the new section (inside) of aluminum we welded in.
Sunday I finally got to test what we had done.
The boat handles 100% better, no cavitaion in the corners, was awesome. With the new motor, fuel and 3 people (roughly 1000lbs) it planed in about 30 ft, I didn't think that was bad for a 2072 pig. It stays on plane at very low throttle so I'm pretty pleased. The top end was not what I expected but o well, I know it's never gonna be a rocket. It has the standard aluminum impeller.
Hopefully my pictures loaded. The pictures from the build are to big, the only pics that would load are of the test run. One of the pictures are at 1/2 throttle (i think the bottom one) and the other one is when I opened her up. I will try and figure out how to load the other pictures.
