Near 100mph in a Hydroplane

🤣💥There is a lot of good sporting action here. Lots of fun to watch💥🤣

I used to race in SLORA about 25 years ago. C-mod M 134 and also had a E mod M143. I bought the E- mod off of Brian N. Great video! Brings back great memories

Awesome racing pretty quick little scips, looked like everyone was having a blast, all the best to yous and your loved ones

Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it, and the introduction to them was great to, before now I didn't know they existed, thank you, all the best to yous and your loved ones

I have Pete Helston's 0250 Mac Minnerilli that Pete made from two Mac 125 shifter kart cylinders. Took a billit block of aluminum on his Bridgeport machine in his garage and cut the crankcase. Crsnk was a Konig 52 mm stroke same as bore size. Deitert Konig always said 52 square was the best combination. It was installed on a Yamato intermediate housing and I ran a 12: 15 gear ( 350 gearcase). The boat is an old Gary Pugh hydro. 1985 I believe. Never designed to go over 90 mph. I ran out of lake at Banana Lake in Lakeland fl. With the GPS saying 98 mph and still pulling. My last run was 2005 at Lake whales FL. Great bunch of guys and gals to run with !. Pete passed away from cancer after a flight straight up in 250 hydro in Lakeland I believe 2004. He was a great friend of mine and I'd do anything for Pete as he did for me. He wanted me to have his engine to race as he never was able to whittle my crankcase before he passed. Rest in peace Pete. I will one day join you and we can race each other. Only I'm giving you back your engine !

Wow, such awesome crafts. How beautiful is that location too.

My uncle in Florida use to race these back in the 80s and early 90s... he was in a bad crash that injured his back and ended his racing. I always wanted to get into it but my mom after my uncle's crash wouldn't let me lol

I am 60 grew up ripping around on those on lake Washington. I would drive one that would a treat. Got stories for days

Thank you for reminding why I never run short course. You just get going and are forced to turn. Long course or park it. lol

From being raised near water as a kid in SC. Seeing this makes me miss home. What most don't know about jet prop boats. Theyre trimmed specifically at high speeds. Because the downward force of its spinning prop. Becomes the only thing holding it in the water. Which is usually just a few feet of the stern. Otherwise it would heel up into a rearward somersault. Such as if it were to shear its prop off the shaft.

Looks like a lot of fun😊😊

I work on that mod hydro plane R-43 every week lol. Gonna be in elk river memorial weekend for races!

beautiful scenary alpine where are they

Ran 98 on GPS in my old Pugh hydro with a 250 Mac Minnerilli and a 350 Yamato gearcase 12:25 gear ratio at Banna Lake before I ran out of lake and it was still pulling. Fastest I have ever gone in my days of boat racing. The rpm's were around 1250 due to tall gear ratio. And at lake whales in 2005 I loaned my 250 to Jon Eldridge and he ran with the 350's. After he blew up his 350 Yamato

I used to make engines for O250 hydro. We clocked over 180kmh at Imatra Finland with our engine. The driver had a very severe accident in Italy and was almost killed, so that stopped the engine development. Really miss the sport, the sound of that screaming 2 cylinder boxer. We where very fast that season.

Always fun to have these races here every year.

All the motors are water cooled. They're force fed by a hole in the gearcase or a pick-up tube. Some do have water pump impellers and you can run them for 15-20 seconds without water

Surface drive outboards. "Who would have thought"

great camera wrk!

Awesomeness. I'd love to build one or 10. Do they all have to be the same length ,width, Hight etc ?