Haulin wrote:
That is indeed a Texas Tunnel... they are super popular and common in the south for inboard jet boat racing... They routinely run over 120 in the drags... there is a version of that boat that basically has the point of deck (the V) cut off and turned into a pickle fork and ends up being about 16' long... again used for inboard jet drags... A friend of mine picked up ex inboard jet, super light (at the time)one of them about 10 years ago, probably about 350-400lbs... Anyway he modified the pad to flatten it out similar to an STV and put a XR2 (150) with a cone a cone on it a big cleaver and that thing flew! Propped wrong for acceleration, but man it top ended for a 150… not sure what it would run, but my old STV ran into 90’s back then with a 2.4 and he could keep up on the top end… scary as hell though, looked right on the edge of a blow over the whole time… he passed away several years ago and his brother still has it, he said he might bring it out to play this summer… BTW, I would bet that one listed is built by Rick Bitz (Bitz Boats/Eagle Fiberglass)… he has the molds and lives just outside Vancouver… he has built several of them…. cheers
Jeez...looking at it I would have thought is was real heavy. Good info Mike, we appreciate someone with first hand knowledge providing some facts (instead of my wildly inaccurate guessing lol).
