Are You Ready For a Boat Ride ?

[Ray Smoodiver]

Jet boats, yet another thing you can thank kiwis for.

[unrlmth]

freaking awesome. i wonder how many boats end up on dry land.

Skip to 4:50 or so and they get a little more exciting

[Killacortes]

holy shit! never seen that before

[straight6pwr]

Skip to 4:50 or so and they get a little more exciting

thanks! amazingly, it seems like a pretty safe sport! the water is only 3ft deep and those boats are tough as nails as they roll over.

[Bglad]

Is it weird to have a boner?

['e30love']

I came

[blck325is]

Fucking nuts...these guys must have ice running through their veins..sheit.

[george graves]

Would be a perfect top-gear skit.

[Beach Bum]

George, R3V'd have to start an email campaign to make that happen.

[iamsam]

its gotta suck to flip over and land in the water upside down. I hope those guys have built in quick release mechanisms for their harnesses. I am sure they do, usually alot of safety features has to go into something like this.

What I don't get is how those boats corner so hard without giant fins jutting down into the water.

[briansjacobs]

fuck me, did you see the guys helmet go flying off at 5:30?

[Beach Bum]

its gotta suck to flip over and land in the water upside down. I hope those guys have built in quick release mechanisms for their harnesses. I am sure they do, usually alot of safety features has to go into something like this.

What I don't get is how those boats corner so hard without giant fins jutting down into the water.

Vectored thrust. They're all jet boats. If you look at the rear end, you can see the support assembly for the nozzle built off the stern at keel level. This increases the leverage the jet nozzle has on the hull, increasing turn speed. That's why they just go straight if the hull goes airborne even for a moment; no water in the intake means no thrust, and no thrust means no steering.

[gverelli]

thats intense lol

[straight6pwr]

yeah that jet nozzle looks like it can rotate pretty far. and about flipping over, it looks like if they can hold their breathe for 10 seconds, those 'track' workers fucking fly to get to the overturned boats. they can stand in the water, so im sure flipping the boat back over isnt hard.

[Unearth078]

a flipping mazing... lol