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Raven Racing Video .. LIFE'S Short... Play Hard
jetboat racing enthuisiast. videos,pictures,and raw jet boat racing boating footage.Aluminum hull race boats with 5 point rollbars. ALL of the hulls these days are aluminum. Other materials are allowed by the rules, but aluminum is used exclusively. One of the last boats other than aluminum was a wood boat raced by Hugh McGinnis in D-class in the late eighties. I've also heard that there was one other boat, run by Dale Williams from St. Louis Missouri and Paul Rigney from Grand Rapids
Michigan. They teamed up and brought a Glastron CVX 20 to the Worlds' in Lewiston
in '92. There was some concern from their competition for their safety. Trying to get some more info on this...
The predominate hull is designed and manufactured by Eagle Racing. Eagle Racing is Rob Chrunyk and crew from Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada. Go here for more information and great media.
Eagle is the number one race hull but there are others racing. Kwikraft is a New Zealand hull designed and built by Tony Ward, 19 to 21 foot tunnel. There also is at least one Doug Riddle hull still racing and there are several unique one-offs, the two built by River Wild are good examples. One is a 21 foot B-class tunnel and the other is an 18 foot FX class tunnel.
Bottoms are anywhere from .160 to 3/16ths. Sometimes AR plating is used as an extra layer of protection. Sides are generally .090, decks can be even less than that. Saving weight is very important and the location of the weight in the boat is even more important. Most use spoons, an add on piece in front of the intake. Hulls are generally tunnels although v-hulls have done well in FX class, and River Wild has built two super light "semi-wing in ground effect" hulls that are also quite good. The FX version did especially good in 2001. I believe the Eagle 19 foot Sport step-tech will become a big force in FX class in the next few years. Now there are turbine engines and a new class called CX.
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