Personal Watercraft-haters, your days of complaining are numbered!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a house on vines creek near Bethany. Our water access feeds to bay/ocean. There are hundreds of jet skis every weekend going by our dock. We have two ourselves but only use them a few times a summer…prefer the boat.
I see the challenge with electric, as an owner with the power I would need to add to my dock to charge (electrical work on a dock is expensive and a pain in the ass) and in reality the batteries in electric vehicles are really bad for the environment- especially in a marine environment.
And jet skis do have way more losses than boats. So with a battery like that in shallow water I am 99% sure you would be forced to salvage it if it went under. That is super expensive to do.

The biggest frustration I’ve had with PWC’s is that they’re not designed for maintenance. If this one is set up in such a way to allow the user to service it in terms of battery/motor removal or replacement, it’s going to change the industry. But if it’s just another glued-together hull with no way to access anything, then m’eh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jet skis are horrible.

Except you can say NOTHING about this one. Literally every complaint you had, vanquished all at once. You could legally ride this one in a National Seashore.

Really sucks for you, huh?

To add to what a PP said about the lack of noise being dangerous for swimmers, they also cause erosion issues in creeks (such issues that are not created by boats because they reach shallower areas that fast boats can’t reach and cause eruption with their wake)

So that is two things

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jet skis are horrible.

Except you can say NOTHING about this one. Literally every complaint you had, vanquished all at once. You could legally ride this one in a National Seashore.

Really sucks for you, huh?

huh? the problem with jetskis is that idiots don’t drive them safely and ruin the water for others. the silence is even worse because now the’ll run over swimmers with no warning. and they should not be allowed to go 65 mph. there’s been a huge uptick in boating injuries due to stupid people on the water. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/travel/boating-accidents.html

+1

The issue with jet skis are the jet ski drivers. Trashy, careless, and obnoxious. Just as OP demonstrates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

65? 65mph is nothing….. At 65 mph, our boat still has another 30-35 mph on tap.

In a perfect light chop with calm winds, we’ve gone from Annapolis to Virginia Beach in two hours and ten minutes.

what your fuel burn, how many GPH?


not worried, its got a run time of 2 hours, at which point then its gotta charge for another 3-12 hours...

[Anonymous]

It's not going to be a real thing for a long time. The combination of electric and docks/water is going to take a long time to sort out.

[Anonymous]

Just like electric cars got rid of loud and noisy drag racing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not going to be a real thing for a long time. The combination of electric and docks/water is going to take a long time to sort out.

Every real dock has electricity for the lifts/power the boat when docked.
But it is not like plugging into a power strip at home. Only licensed marine electricians can do anything near water or else people will die. Just getting in the water has killed many people when things go wrong with electricity and docks.

Rental companies would probably be the most important to adopt electric pws but the last to do it due to expense and recharge times. I do not see electric pws ever taking off. Electricity and water and lithium seem like a terrible mix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jet skis are horrible.

Except you can say NOTHING about this one. Literally every complaint you had, vanquished all at once. You could legally ride this one in a National Seashore.

Really sucks for you, huh?

You sound so weird and aggressive. Who actually gives 2 craps about jetskis and your dumb motorized hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

65? 65mph is nothing….. At 65 mph, our boat still has another 30-35 mph on tap.

In a perfect light chop with calm winds, we’ve gone from Annapolis to Virginia Beach in two hours and ten minutes.

what your fuel burn, how many GPH?

About 155 GPH 87oct PG at 4,800 rpm. That’s for twin WCO 598’s FI SC’d, through Mercury M8 drives, spinning Hill 15.25x26/15 5-blade cleavers. Max speed in seawater in absolutely perfect chop and <50% fuel cap has consistently been about 112 but it’s rare to have perfect conditions for more than a few minutes at a time so in the real-world the top end is just about 100-102.

Boat is a 2002 Baja 40 Outlaw. We bought it in 2009 and repowered it in 2016 because the OEM MerCruiser 496’s had lost some compression and even when new they were only putting out about 1,100 total HP and the boat can easily handle twice that. So we did WCO engine and drive packages. Compression is only 10.1:1 with very mild SC’ing because I wanted to make sure it would run well on 87 since you can’t always find 91/93 at every marina. We also added a 100 gallon keel tank under the salon galleyway so we can run about 3 hours total at WOT. But you definitely feel a little beat up and tired after a couple hundred miles.

I wanted an offshore boat ever since I was a kid watching Miami Vice. Greatest rush in the world for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jet skis are horrible.

Except you can say NOTHING about this one. Literally every complaint you had, vanquished all at once. You could legally ride this one in a National Seashore.

Really sucks for you, huh?

You sound so weird and aggressive. Who actually gives 2 craps about jetskis and your dumb motorized hobby.

Triggered!