How low can she go?

[lovedr79]

Main reason I want a jet, run skinny water.as I proved a prop will bend and bend propshaft.

 

[Darkside]

TIMEOUT . . . I'm calling BS on anyone who claims to run any boat in 4" of water. Must be coming from a real fisherman! I'll even call BS on twice that! LOL
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4" is well within a jet's limits. Most any jet with a respectable power to wieght ratio can run in 4" of water. One eliment missing is our desire to place all jet crafts in the same catagory. There are plenty of guys out there with smaller boats and smaller engines that do not have the hp to wieght ration required to create the lift or pressure to achieve this. Most of these guys know their limits and have light enough crafts to manage shallow waterin their own way.

I'd also say it is very nice to have a hard consitant pea-gravel bottom where the proper lift (pressure) can help without issue., Each of my last 3 jets could do that and so does my current craft. My first two jets were not set up to confidently run much under 6" without risking impact.

I too would gladly take you on a test drive in 3-4" of water.

2" for more than a a few hundred feet... that's one I'm most interested in seeing. Most of my water is too suspect it goes from 18" to 3" due to large ledge or chunk rock and it is hard to maintain the surface area to do this. It might be 3" in one spot but but just inches away it's far less because of a larger rock. These are areas I'd like to see run myself in lighter MO crafts.

Distance of a shallow obsticle is also a factor. Most Inboard and Tunnel Hull Outboard Jets can push enough water over a short shoat to manage essencially wet rocks. There are places in our river that close off to little more than wet gravel shoals and we cross them by slowing down and jumping back on plane to ride the bow push or water we created. I am sure lots of seasoned jetters do this too.

-Chris

 

[bulldog]

I have an 1848 flat bottom jet and I can cruise in 6" of water all day. Did a few shallow water tests last time I was out. I did 3" and barely hit. My boat is heavy also. 4-6" in a heavy boat is very possible.

Either Patriot is just stirring things up or he has never been in a jet. I remember when I had my first beer too. :LOL2:

 

[fish2keel]

I remember when I had my first beer too. :LOL2:

This post has made my day in relation to patriots post. Jets are pretty amazing even the big jets. Take a ride in one and have that first beer