Aluminum Seadoo?

[Joholio]

Anyone ever heard of someone dooin this? I think it would be a blast up some small rivers! Cheers!

 

[Bnorth]

I've often though about it. Even just fitting an aluminum bottom over the fibreglass kinda like teflon on bigger boats.

 

[Syclone74]

I worked with a guy who runs his on the rivers and said its a blast.

 

[sumx54]

I've ran mine on the river and have the bodyshop fibreglass bills to prove it. Cost me a lot of money not once but twice. Aluminum or Teflon bottom would be the answer for sure. We've ran them on the North Sask and also tried the Pembina. Got too cocky both times.

 

[MrHankey]

Boat with a few guys around here that have been on every river you can think of ,lots of stories of where they have been have even ran up to the Hoover dam on the Colorado river pre 9/11 could not do it nowadays

 

[MrHankey]

Keel strip and a custom steel grate is all they do to them

 

[NoBrakes!]

Call Eagle or Bratt and build a mini.

 

[ponyboy]

it can be done , but to do it properly with Teflon or aluminum , im thinking one would have to do a complete tear down of the sea doo and have a bare hull to attach either A or T .... both of which would reguire a lot of welding , bending , molding , heating , beer , cussing an head scratching..... the end result will be fun as hell , until you snag a rock going into a high speed corner in the SKINNY as you jet boaters call it ...... but it can be done ..... so if anyone has a PWC in DV that you want this done to , bring it over and lets see what we can doo ( for a small fee ) as I am laid up right now .... just throwing it out there

 

[MrHankey]

If you think you could do this I know a guy that would be all over this pm your number and I'll pass it on

 

[buckie]

There is a guy in grande prairie that built a mini with a kawi jetski motor in it center drive thats all he does is rip up and down the rivers and uses it for hunting was an awsome little rig

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[dogsmack]

I've ran mine on the river and have the bodyshop fibreglass bills to prove it. Cost me a lot of money not once but twice. Aluminum or Teflon bottom would be the answer for sure. We've ran them on the North Sask and also tried the Pembina. Got too cocky both times.

I can only imagine, had our jet skis on the NSR once. No damage but close calls. Up for sale, sold and bought the Tjet Bulldog. That 1/2 " of plastic on the bottom to me is my idiot insurance for the learning curve.

Be quite the rig if someone made a jet ski that can take some abuse, I would imagine the dismounts might be a bit more painful and risky. I found a couple vids a while back of guys on river in Idaho I think on the stand up jobs, some big air and bigger water. Those guys had a set of stones to be playing in that.