Electric jet drive kayak

[BilletHead]

New electric jet drive revolutionizes fishing kayaks

FluxJet Kayaks - World's First Electric Jet Fishing Kayak

[ollie]

I keep debating on trading my kayak in and getting one where I can adapt a motor to it fairly easy. That way I could have one for the creek and coves on the lakes. At that point on the price though, you could almost just buy a used boat. I can only imagine the cost on that bad boy in the link!

[tjm]

I keep thinking how little plastic boats resemble kayaks. I wonder if the Aleuts and Yupiks would buy a "jet kayak" and I wonder if the modern "kayak" is seaworthy twenty miles off shore? I also wonder what becomes of last years plastic boats when someone upgrades, or what ever happens to old fiberglass boats? neither type seem environmentally friendly nor recyclable.  

An electric jet boat is interesting though, wonder if that will catch on or be too cumbersome for most to transport and launch. Battery weight alone would deter me, unless it was very close to the car. 

 

[Flysmallie]

I’d did a little looking into that one. Not that I would ever buy one for use around here but it grabbed my attention. 
 

The first thing I noticed was the impeller is plastic. That’s won’t hold up on an Ozarks stream. Maybe their actual production units will be different. 
 

The other thing was that with a 24V system you are still only going to get 6 or 7 mph out of it. Now I’m not trying to turn a kayak into a speed boat, but my idea of a powered small craft is one that I could run up a river. I don’t think this boat is capable of that. 
 

On still water it’s probably okay. But at 3k it’s still too pricey for my taste. If I could only use it on still water I’ll just take a regular boat. 

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

I’d did a little looking into that one. Not that I would ever buy one for use around here but it grabbed my attention. 
 

The first thing I noticed was the impeller is plastic. That’s won’t hold up on an Ozarks stream. Maybe their actual production units will be different. 
 

The other thing was that with a 24V system you are still only going to get 6 or 7 mph out of it. Now I’m not trying to turn a kayak into a speed boat, but my idea of a powered small craft is one that I could run up a river. I don’t think this boat is capable of that. 
 

On still water it’s probably okay. But at 3k it’s still too pricey for my taste. If I could only use it on still water I’ll just take a regular boat. 

Kinda my thinking to Ronnie. Reading more on test running they did get 20 mph on it. That would be kinda sketchy on something like that. Maybe liability cut that speed down. 

[Quillback]

There's a lot of money spent on yaks these days.  A lot of people won't blink at spending $3k for an electric motor propelled yak.  E-bikes aren't cheap, and they are all over the place around here.  I would say it will depend on whether that is a good platform for yak fishing - enough space for rods, tackle, and electronics.  I see a lot of rigged out yaks these days, they are like mini bass boats with all the stuff they have on them. 

I'm thinking primarily for lakes. 

[tjm]

" 6 or 7 mph"

I've never really tried to figure the speed of Ozark streams, but they seem on the faster side to me, does anyone know about what an average speed is on most Ozark streams or on one or two of them?

 

[Flysmallie]

5 hours ago, BilletHead said:

Kinda my thinking to Ronnie. Reading more on test running they did get 20 mph on it. That would be kinda sketchy on something like that. Maybe liability cut that speed down. 

It will go faster with more voltage. I think they said you could go up to 60 volts. That’s a lot more batteries. 
 

There are people regularly dropping 3k on in powered kayaks. They won’t bat an eye at this price. I hope it all works out. 

[Al Agnew]

6 hours ago, tjm said:

" 6 or 7 mph"

I've never really tried to figure the speed of Ozark streams, but they seem on the faster side to me, does anyone know about what an average speed is on most Ozark streams or on one or two of them?

 

I believe that 7 mph is about the fastest current you'll find even in the steepest riffles.  People routinely overestimate current speed.  6 or 7 mph MIGHT get you up most Ozark rivers, but it would be slow going.  

[Al Agnew]

I'm always wondering why people get into kayaks and then try to turn them into bass boats.  The beauty of kayaks and canoes is that they are small, relatively light in weight, and you can pretty much use them anywhere.  So then you buy one that weighs 80 pounds stripped and add 50-75 pounds of attached gear, electronics, and batteries, and you need a concrete boat ramp and a trailer to get it into the water.  I'd rather do it this way (and by the way, you won't want to try to take out where I did on this trip with one of those decked out fishing kayaks...the parking lot is a quarter mile from the river and you have to drag it up a mucky swamp half that distance and then up a rocky creek bottom the rest of the way):