Jet designs

[Skoontz]

That's what I'm talking about...I guess someone already thought of it....

[Michael J Gwaltney]

Not up close and personal, but in pictures, yes....The signifiant difference here is the outboard would have alot more hanging in the water. Ideally, the intake would be right at the surface, perhaps even using some type of very shallow sterring fins to funnel water into the hole. I'm after reducing drag here, which, I think mounting the unit after transom would allow the boat to hang........Trim would give us bow lift...I could see the danger of a blow over in the horizon....Maybe large afterplanes could handle that.....

I am not clear on your goal using a jet. Hard to match propeller speed unless you use gobs of hp and fuel.
US Military has used Varney jet units on military outboards for many years. The varney looks simular to a production gearcase and must be pretty durable. Military likes them for deploying and retreiving troops at high speeds reducing possible prop rash and shallow water (beach) operation.

[Skoontz]

Michael:

I'm not really sure what any gain would be, except that concept of getting more boat out of the water for speed. Jets come hard out of the hole, and if one could supply enough power, could be a petty hard combo to beat in a drag. Say take Plan B's motor, not sure of all the hard parts, but appears to be about a 500cu in motor, 12/71 blower, enderlie bug catcher...He comes out of the harbor at a low throttle and the engine speeds up then down up then down, just like a nitro motor in a dragster.... KT and my favorite GN, they're all good, but that ones got class... so hook that thing up and squirt come water.... You would have to strap in in order to punch that thing, then pray your organs don't get bruised from the thrust....

Never been a big jet fan, until Jimm his wife, and Amanda Rich pitted next to us and he gave me the grand tour of all the updated goodies jets are running these days....Then my mind wandered, just like with the 6 cylinder sort of radial outboard. There's some pretty fun possiblities, especially when you are drivng down the road, the music on the radio at the time stinks, with nothing better to do...