Jet boat tours?

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21 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Notice something missing from that picture?  None of those people are wearing PFDs.  I hope that's just a picture and not actually what their policy is.  A person falling into the cold waters of Taney without a jacket on might not end well...

No it is not just a picture. They said they would had them for those who wanted one. I imagine when its running it will run a lot of small boats off the water. The thing is a potential disaster on that narrow lake. 

[Phil Lilley]

I'm not promoting it.  

[Phil Lilley]

Did you read my post about the huge wakes that hit my dock everyday?  "Dozens" was not an exaggeration, unlike comments on this thread against this business.  None of you sit where I am, here on the lake, everyday, and see what I see.  That boat (one boat) will not throw any bigger wakes than what we see from this boat

with a 50 horse motor running 1/3rd throttle and plowing a line.  We see it every day.  I'm not saying the jet boat won't throw wakes... I'm saying its wakes won't be any bigger than other boats.

[fshndoug]

The wake will most certainly be much bigger  with the jet boat when they dump the front end and turn a  180.they have to do that for the thrill factor.If people think that boat wont go to the dam when the water is high they are just kidding themselves.I don't care what the company says where it will go.Taney is just too small for a 30 ft boat.

[Phil Lilley]

https://m.facebook.com/#~!/profile.php?id=105857063022&tsid=0.7052953286852025&source=typeahead

Video posted on this page shows the wake from a 360. 

[MoCarp]

Personally there should be NO WAKE zones near docks for ALL boats...I suspect a fully loaded boat will be worse, screaming people doing a 360 to AC/DC blaring... and suspect the jet boat tour is on best behavior ATM...

[Gatorjet]

People predicting a huge wake from this boat know absolutely nothing about jet boats. Especially this one. It is a large, flat planing hull. Where the boat Phil posted is a planing hull when at speed, it is very much a displacement hull when the operator slows id down as described.

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There are two basic types of boat hulls—displacement and planing.

Displacement Hulls

Boats with displacement hulls move through the water by pushing the water aside and are designed to cut through the water with very little propulsion.

• If you lower a boat into the water, some of the water moves out of the way to adjust for the boat. If you could weigh that displaced water, you would find it equals the weight of the boat. That weight is the boat's displacement.
• Boats with displacement hulls are limited to slower speeds.
• A round-bottomed hull shape acts as a displacement hull. Most large cruisers and most sailboats have displacement hulls, allowing them to travel more smoothly through the water.

Planing Hulls

Boats with planing hulls are designed to rise up and glide on top of the water when enough power is supplied. These boats may operate like displacement hulls when at rest or at slow speeds but climb towards the surface of the water as they move faster.

• Boats with planing hulls can skim along at high speed, riding almost on top of the water rather than pushing it aside.
• Flat-bottomed and vee-bottomed hull shapes act as planing hulls. Most small power-driven vessels, including personal watercraft (PWCs), and some small sailboats have planing hulls, allowing them to travel more rapidly across the water.

The Branson jet boat would not be able to do the donuts, and spins if it were a displacement hull, or being operated like one. The large amount of water you see in the videos is not a large wake, but a lot of spray coming off the slight angle of the flat hull.

 

[Gatorjet]

On 6/10/2017 at 11:55 AM, moguy1973 said:

I don't know how popular this is actually going to be on Taney. Unless people like getting completely soaked by 50 degree water, not sure that many will ride it.  Looks like on this video its a pretty wet ride, esp when they slam on the reverse gates and it nosedives into the water.

 

Yes, many will not mind the cold water on a 100 degree day.

This is a very telling video. Don't watch the people, don't look at the boat. Notice the wake behind the boat. Much less than the pontoon boat that passes!

[MoCarp]

1 hour ago, Gatorjet said:

People predicting a huge wake from this boat know absolutely nothing about jet boats. Especially this one. It is a large, flat planing hull. Where the boat Phil posted is a planing hull when at speed, it is very much a displacement hull when the operator slows id down as described.

The Branson jet boat would not be able to do the donuts, and spins if it were a displacement hull, or being operated like one. The large amount of water you see in the videos is not a large wake, but a lot of spray coming off the slight angle of the flat hull.

 

The link Phil posted is of said boat on Taney.....not loaded and not at full speed....and definitely not full of screaming passengers and blaring music....So my question is would you be cool with that thing blowing past you fishing every hour? (laughs at the 4 times a day prediction) 9 bench seats x 6 -10 people at a conservative 150 lbs a person 8100 pounds to as much as (and more realistically ) 15,000 lbs displacement regardless of hull type goes up (surface area contacting the water increases as the hull is depressed into the water with cargo (people in this case) we could go into Froude number and wake estimate calculation but ill link it here...bottom line it will throw wakes BIG ones

http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/know-boat=know-wake-151014.pdf

[Phil Lilley]

It is full of people...