Den WOW! This is great information! That G503.com looks interesting. Are you building that boat? Thank you.
To kinda answer yours and Toms questions, I have a 28' Express that needs a fair amount of work. I have it out of the water and recently pulled one of my twin 318's that is frozen up. My nephew is a machinist for a company that manufactures custom irrigation and well pumps. I live on the Sacramento River where there are lots of hidden treasures for your props to play with. It also varies in depth in some places quite drastically. He I started talking about converting my Uniflite to jet drives. I'm not sure that this is even a remotely feasible idea but I wanted to look into it. My folks and I looked at a 65' La Conner that was built by a Microsoft exec out of WA. It was jet driven for shallow water ways up there. What a neat boat. Let's pretend that this is a project that makes it off the ground. I would use my 318's (rebuilt) wit a possible propane conversion and run some type of jet drive system. I would run be able to run in 2' of water?? Also without concern of props hitting debris. I have a lot of investigating to do. Thoughts, comments, and ideas welcome. On Nov 6, 6:30 am, tomdepot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > Over the years watching this site, I have seen many people ask about > the PBR jet drives. In your case, does this mean that you are > intending to restore/recreate one? I own a 1968 31' express which is > supposedly the same hull as the PBR and it runs great with the two > four cylinder diesels I have in it. What I am really curious about > is, do you have any direct experience in the performance of the old > jet drive setups? Would they handle like jet ski's, in that you only > have steering at higher rpms and no reverse? I would worry that its > performance would be so inferior to a modern setup that you might > regret the project, although I realize for a history/military buff > it's the originality that matters most. I am not trying to argue > against such a project, just curious. > > Another driving force behind my question is that a friend of mine told > me recently that the old Detroits were so noisy and vibration prone > that he would never buy a boat with one. This is something else I > have never personally experienced, but curious if you have. > > One thing I can say, I would like to not have to worry about submerged > obstructions. I passed a floating log going out the channel the other > day and couldn't help but wonder what might have happened had I run > over it instead of just by it. You can't see the damn things until > you are right on them. > > Good luck, > Tom in Floirda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/UnifliteWorld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
