130 mph boat ride

(troublesnomore)

http://www.performanceboats.com/html/forums/showthread.php?t=7638

(troublesnomore)

another one
http://www.performanceboats.com/html/forums/showthread.php?t=8229

(h20jnky) · (h20jnky) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 05-14-2008, 3:29 PM

definitely the wrong website for these posts..

(ride900) · (ride900) **Join Date: May 2007** 05-14-2008, 3:39 PM

DID YOU SEE ALL THE BUTTER!!! man thats sad all that butter and you guys are hackin it up with a tube. I've never really understood what the fun of fast offshore boats are in a smooth lake. Get that thing in some swell and now were talkin fun!!! Just seems like a big ass waste of $ to me.

(seattle) · (seattle) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 05-14-2008, 5:03 PM

I'd hop in for a ride.But then again Seattle is steeped in boat racing history.

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-14-2008, 6:16 PM

Does that come with perfect pass?and where is the tower?

(Message edited by johnsvt on May 14, 2008)

(trace) · (trace) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 05-14-2008, 9:27 PM

I rode in a ~36' 100 mph Fountain a couple months ago, pretty sweet once you get going but it took FOREVER to get up to speed. Pretty cool going that fast in something with a kitchen. It was a bigger boat than that one, with twin blown big blocks.

(h20jnky) · (h20jnky) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 05-14-2008, 9:32 PM

i always get so curious when i see threads about a boat going 100+mph down "a river"? i guess in idaho our "rivers" are a little different than what your version of a "river" is?.. something to be said for aluminum tunnel hulls with 750 hp engines bouncing off of rocks and still remaining competitive... going upriver..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tk1GYZrU6Q

(batman) · (batman) **Join Date: Nov 2001** 05-14-2008, 9:36 PM

Ha, here is some horsepower!

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(srock) · (srock) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 05-15-2008, 9:50 AM

Nothing like riding a tube with direct exhausts hammering at your ears. I hate noise.

We use to take offshore boats from Palm Beach to the Keys. On the ride back everybody was in the boat with silent choice while the direct exhaust driver had to search for a friend.

(jayc) · (jayc) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 05-16-2008, 12:12 PM

Gotta love that drug running rib. Its some serious bit of kit.

(dppaneig) · (dppaneig) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 05-17-2008, 10:06 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKO1N0-q-M

(882001) · (882001) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 05-17-2008, 11:00 AM

pretty lame. surprised the boat isnt painted up like an easter egg with some stupid name. and they toob to boot! awsome!

(cbraden) · (cbraden) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 05-17-2008, 1:27 PM

Wasn't there a thread a while back about hippety hop's as bumpers? I think that tug decided the small 18" wasn't going to cut it. he had to go with the 32" from toys r us

(themxercr85) · (themxercr85) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 05-20-2008, 7:41 AM

Offshore race boats are a whole other world, we have am 18' 73 Donzi x-18 with a chevy 350 in it. We were looking at a 39' cigarette with 2 502's in it

. I love our donzi though, its so much fun and its so rare. Theres like 1 or 2 other ones a little like it on lake wa. Its just a classic boat. We take it to chelan every year and up until they put trim tabs on the ferries, we used to jump the ferry waves and get the prop 2 or 3 feet outta the water. Massive fun and its what the boat is meant for.

(deltariderscom)

Never been much for the off shore boats but I can say I have dabbled in drag boats. A whole other type of rush doing 138.2 in a 1/4 mile in just under 9 seconds.

(themxercr85) · (themxercr85) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 05-20-2008, 11:23 AM

thats insaneee

(watersnake) · (watersnake) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 05-21-2008, 7:50 PM

Once saw a drag boat named "Madness" hit 215 mph!

(kenv) · (kenv) **Join Date: May 2002** 05-21-2008, 9:19 PM

Jesse,

I saw Madness run a few passes in his day. Awesome boat. The gound shakes when he's midway through the pass. 215 won't even qualify you these days. I believe they are up to 235 to 240 in the quarter!!

(watersnake) · (watersnake) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 05-22-2008, 4:57 PM

Ken,

Crazy! I have to get to another race one of these days, like to take my two boys and show them some boat speed. Any idea if they run around NorCal?

(kenv) · (kenv) **Join Date: May 2002** 05-22-2008, 7:48 PM

Jesse,

Check out http://www.ihbaracing.com/
Looks like they have 3 races in Cali this year. I'm about 2 hours away from the Marble Falls, Texas race in August. I might check it out this year. I've got a 7 year old girl but she really digs boats. Just might take her to her first drag race this summer. She thinks my Nautique is fast!!
Ahh to be young again.
Have a safe Memorial Day Weekend.

Ken

(watersnake) · (watersnake) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 05-23-2008, 9:30 AM

Thanks Ken, looks like I just got new plans for one day this weekend. They are racing in Red bluff which is close enough for a day trip with the fam.

(hatepain) · (hatepain) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 05-23-2008, 12:10 PM

The crazy thing is that Scott Pellaton of barefoot and Sanger fame barefooted faster than that when he set the world record. 135.74 MPH!

(mlb75) · (mlb75) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 05-27-2008, 8:17 AM

nice chop on the rib photo :-)