Thread: offroading in a boat??

Hey Im kinda new, wasnt sure if I should post this in the marine rides or here but anyway figured some of you hardcore offroaders may get a kick out of these boats. Fuly welded aluminum, skid plate , the whole bit. Its like offroading on water

Some pics and a few vids of the abuse, i mean use ....

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We had my buddies in Moab years back, even had to get some welding done at a local shop during Jeep week, think the guy was pretty happy to be working on something without wheels for a change lol

That boat is sick as fuck, and the first video when the red one airs out over that log was awesome!

thats awesome!

where do i get one

after seeing the ending of that last one, full cage and helmet would be required for me. haha.
so is this you driving in this one?

Originally Posted by slater1472

where do i get one

They are made here in Alberta but they actually stopped making this exact model because Mercury doesnt make the 240 anymore
The boats were about 42k Canadian new

Originally Posted by totalchaosyota92

after seeing the ending of that last one, full cage and helmet would be required for me. haha.
so is this you driving in this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqqdZd4fAXY

My buddy from Michigans boat is #22, we took that on a roadtrip thru Colorado and Utah before ending up in Idaho to race the Salmon River, alot of that footage is from that race , so Im navigating in SJ22(identical to my boat but with a cage) My old 21'tunnel is the red/white boat throwing the roost, running thru the tree's and sinking in Michigan haha

The Salmon race is pretty hairy, very rough and technical. Jesse almost flippin at the end was due to high winds, they cancelled the rest of the day after that set of legs. He thought he got "almost vertical" till people were showing him footage of the boat being past vertical lol

Im not in every boat but most of them, filiming usually in that particular vid.

This type of boating is super addictive. Hard to go back to running lakes after youre used to bashing rocks, jumping logs and running in 4" of water

That looks pretty badass.

That shit is wayyyy nutty!!! How do they not trash the engines/jets though?

Originally Posted by NeverLift

That shit is wayyyy nutty!!! How do they not trash the engines/jets though?

Who says they dont?

Like anything(fun) theres definitely wear and tear with this type of thing. The Mercury gear is pretty robust actually once you change to a proper steel rock grate (about 3/8"-1/2" gaps) and put in a stainless steel wear ring liner. Even then you may need to give your pump a freshen once a year, sharpen the blades etc Like anything the more you stay on top of it the better performance you can maintain. Getting on step fast can be pretty important in some places we get into, intentionally or not haha This boat has a race style intake so no "EZClean" style grate(those you stomp a bar at the back of the boat and it clears the rocks from the grate). Pickin the rocks out is a daily task, you just hope you dont get so clogged that you have to do it on the river. You'd be amazed what these boats can take. One time I had a wiring issue and we couldnt get the boat to run and to a decent place to get it out so we had to do "this" (see pics) Offroad guys know, you do what you gotta do......



ironically it was probably easier on the boat than what we did to it on the river that day hahaha

Originally Posted by xerophobic

Who says they dont?

Like anything(fun) theres definitely wear and tear with this type of thing. The Mercury gear is pretty robust actually once you change to a proper steel rock grate (about 3/8"-1/2" gaps) and put in a stainless steel wear ring liner. Even then you may need to give your pump a freshen once a year, sharpen the blades etc Like anything the more you stay on top of it the better performance you can maintain. Getting on step fast can be pretty important in some places we get into, intentionally or not haha This boat has a race style intake so no "EZClean" style grate(those you stomp a bar at the back of the boat and it clears the rocks from the grate). Pickin the rocks out is a daily task, you just hope you dont get so clogged that you have to do it on the river. You'd be amazed what these boats can take. One time I had a wiring issue and we couldnt get the boat to run and to a decent place to get it out so we had to do "this" (see pics) Offroad guys know, you do what you gotta do......



ironically it was probably easier on the boat than what we did to it on the river that day hahaha

Damn! That last pik!!!

Originally Posted by NeverLift

Damn! That last pik!!!

Yea too bad it was sorta dark by then, we dragged the boat up that hill thru the woods. You cant really tell how steep it was, but that light in the one pic is the truck headlight haha
Gravel/rocks at 1-5 mph are better than at 65

People waiting to cross the bridge did give us some funny looks tho......

Thats badass!!! I couldn't tell from the videos but is that the type of boat everyone drives there? looks like fun.

Originally Posted by bmxryder

Thats badass!!! I couldn't tell from the videos but is that the type of boat everyone drives there? looks like fun.

This province doesnt have a ton of open water/lakes etc itds more rivers so jet/riverboating is pretty popular yea. This is definitely on the more extreme end of things, there are more tame "family/fishing" style boats too. Im alot more into the sport boats tho, obviously haha

Its a total rush, running water you cant stop in. Taking out new people is great too , the looks you get when you're running thru 4" and not touching Hitting stuff wrong and gettuing stuck can be funny too, well till they are told they gotta get out and help push haha The more you push your luck the more fun it is(and the worse you get stuck when things go wrong) Fast flowing water and rapids are just addicting

almost like you'd need a winch. very cool.

I spent my summers on the Salmon River in Idaho and there was a couple guys that would run jetski up and down it. was interesting to watch.

This is so sick!

my buddy has a sprint. fun as hell and handles like a jet ski. when he lived in alaska he had the thing barried under log piles and everything. bitchen boats very fun to mob..

this is so bad ass. what is the top speed of your boat and what kind of pump do you guys run?

They build these boats where I live (Red Deer, Alberta) where are you from xero?

Here are a couple shops local that build that style of boat. A very common power plant is the LSA from the new CTS-V supercharged.

FireFish Industries - Main

Outlaw Eagle Manufacturing Ltd.

Harbercraft Boats - #1 Welded Aluminum Boats in Canada

i didnt even know this was possible. You got to be hitting rocks alot. This could be super addicting.

How bout that one lol

except for the drowning part ..... fun

Originally Posted by trever leach

this is so bad ass. what is the top speed of your boat and what kind of pump do you guys run?

still waiting for a reply

they will do well over 65mp/h up stream, all depending on motor/jet set up.

also, hello fellow canadian! i was starting to think i was the only one on here.

This is epic! Offroading and boats all in one.

Originally Posted by 3.0ranger1227

How bout that one lol

Always wanted one of these for the river, how badass would it be to show up in one. probably the only kind of boat that i could keep in one piece too lol.