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<blockquote data-quote="fender66" data-source="post: 210568" data-attributes="member: 2990"><p>First off....welcome to TinBoats. Happy to have you here and it's great to have more "jet" guys.</p><p></p><p>As for UHMW....I don't know much about it, however I do run a 1756 Alweld JC. I love it and can't say enough good about it. The only times I wish for something slightly different is when I'm on big lakes and there's lots of chop. Running a flat bottom isn't always the best in chop. I wish sometimes that I had a little more "V" to cut through some of that....but I don't wish it enough to get anything different. I'm powering with a Merc 225 jet and outside of it sucking gas.....I love that too. I am set up to fish with the glass bass boats in tournaments all the time too. I carry a lot of weight/gear and if I wanted to run with the jets in the real shallows, I would have to take some gear out first, but that's easy to do. I can still run clean in 3 inches of water, but don't like to stop in it cause my jet will suck up a lot of "bottom" in 3 inches when starting from a dead float. I try to avoid that for obvious reasons, but don't get into that situation often. I can run with all my gear and weight right around 50mph.</p><p></p><p>Let us know what you decide, and if you have any other questions.....don't hesitate to ask.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fender66, post: 210568, member: 2990"] First off....welcome to TinBoats. Happy to have you here and it's great to have more "jet" guys. As for UHMW....I don't know much about it, however I do run a 1756 Alweld JC. I love it and can't say enough good about it. The only times I wish for something slightly different is when I'm on big lakes and there's lots of chop. Running a flat bottom isn't always the best in chop. I wish sometimes that I had a little more "V" to cut through some of that....but I don't wish it enough to get anything different. I'm powering with a Merc 225 jet and outside of it sucking gas.....I love that too. I am set up to fish with the glass bass boats in tournaments all the time too. I carry a lot of weight/gear and if I wanted to run with the jets in the real shallows, I would have to take some gear out first, but that's easy to do. I can still run clean in 3 inches of water, but don't like to stop in it cause my jet will suck up a lot of "bottom" in 3 inches when starting from a dead float. I try to avoid that for obvious reasons, but don't get into that situation often. I can run with all my gear and weight right around 50mph. Let us know what you decide, and if you have any other questions.....don't hesitate to ask. [/QUOTE]
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