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[glossieblack]

Joel, Had a chance to run her with the cleaned up engine yet?

[tech_support]

I have not it hard to line up free time, especially if I need another boat to run chase.

I have been working on the steering though. The old helm (from the jetski) was limiting the movement of the nozzle, so I scrapped it and have installed a true jet boat helm. Its a pretty stout helm so i needed to make a new mounting plate (goes under the pretty carbon/kevlar dash) I finished that yesterday and I just need to get the boat to the jetski mechanic to hook the cable up to the pump, its a PITB to do. The jetboat helm will allow me to mount a wheel and it has over 200 degrees of motion from stop to stop - that will give me A LOT more leverage in turning

old helm




epoxy on some block to which I will secure a mounting plate





new helm

[ks8]

No doubt it will be much nicer than handlebars.

[tech_support]

Oh, definately The handle bars were never a permanent solution, just something to use while I worked the kinks out of the rest of the systems

[ks8]

The handle bars were never a permanent solution, just something to use while I worked the kinks out of the rest of the systems

Yes, well, I've certainly never been guilty of rushing things for the sake of testing!

[glossieblack]

Have you had a chance to test the steering Joel?

[tech_support]

sadly, no no time ...........

[tech_support]

was able to run the boat yesterday My friend ran chase in his boat and took some video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHq8O_XFuo

steering is now VERY good, not shown in the video but I was able to get it to spin out. Speed was better, not sure the mph but Im guessing 50ish. There is still some room on the throttle, and I was only getting 7000 rpm

[RR]

Very cool!

[Fuzz]

I have really enjoyed watching this build come together. I no place around here to be able to use a boat like that but it does not stop me from liking what I am seeing. As so many others have said you have done one fine job! Plus I love it when people do things a little bit out of the main stream and it all works out.
Fuzz.