River boating on the lake.

[Stumpuller6.5]

during my little vacation last week my bro had his river boat up at the lake, sure hauls ass on that flat water.

couldn`t find my gps but we were definatley going over 70mph. what usually took half an hour to travel up the lake took less than ten minutes.

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[OPGMC]

that things sick awsome

 

[Zembonez]

What a blast!

 

[Vmax2007]

River boat? Evidently your definition of a river boat is different than mine. That boat is a bit small for the rivers here (St Croix and Mississippi). If you want to go fast on these rivers, you need a minimum 28' Baja or Fountain (or similar). Or risk your life, especially on the St Croix.

 

[drperry]

The Wapiti river which the boat races are held on around here... Isn't that big

However... All that boat needs is a rope tower for skiing and tubing!

 

[Stumpuller6.5]

River boat? Evidently your definition of a river boat is different than mine. That boat is a bit small for the rivers here (St Croix and Mississippi). If you want to go fast on these rivers, you need a minimum 28' Baja or Fountain (or similar). Or risk your life, especially on the St Croix.

yeah i`m sure our definitions are a bit different, but only cause our rivers are much smaller. around here we have small narrow rocky mountain fed streams that require low pitch bottom boats and water jet propulsion, typically we running rivers that may only be 6 inches deep in places, lots of times you "tap" bottom, my bros boat has a 3/8" Qt-100 steel bottom and teflon coating to survive the occasional skim over rock beds.

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[Zembonez]

River boat? Evidently your definition of a river boat is different than mine. That boat is a bit small for the rivers here (St Croix and Mississippi). If you want to go fast on these rivers, you need a minimum 28' Baja or Fountain (or similar). Or risk your life, especially on the St Croix.

Most of our rivers aren't choppy and full of breakers. We have lots of smooth water around here unless it's extremely windy. When I saw river boat, I thought of this:

 

[Vmax2007]

This is my definition of a "fast" riverboat:

And this is my definition of a slow riverboat:

 

[dietz4ibanez]

Dude your bro should be proud that thing is cool no matter what Jeff says!

 

[Vmax2007]

Dude your bro should be proud that thing is cool no matter what Jeff says!

I never said it wasn't cool. It definitely is cool.