OK, so DavMen and I are having a little brainstorm on how to cope with the Sydney doldrums. Do you guys reckon you could attach a rig to this thing and use the apparent wind to hook in and hang on? It even looks like a Hypersonic with it's concaves...
You could have an RF throttle control on each side of the boom - and a gybe button to give you say 4 sec's of throttle through the transition © ?
I haven't seen this model surf jet before but in the 1950s the hawaiian surf rescue used a aluminum hollow board with a small jet inside for surf rescue it was about six inches thickness pretty cool no huge hump on the back although i know they didn't get 225hp out of it
Humour? I've half finished the thing! I followed actionmax's advice and put a 225HP motor on the back. 225cc just wouldn't crack 50 knots.
I saw one of those things in Korea, around 2004...they called it a "Jet Board".
It was about 100 bucks a go, if I remember rightly, so being the cheap b@$t@rd I am, I gave it a miss.