OK, you guys in the lower hemisphere have been keeping things like this place secret!! What an amazing, and beautiful ride!!
Shotover Jet Boat Video
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OK, you guys in the lower hemisphere have been keeping things like this place secret!! What an amazing, and beautiful ride!!
Shotover Jet Boat Video
That's SCARY! I don't think I could sit in that boat and not grab the wheel for control! LOL..
What a ride!!!! Wish it was something a bit closer to home, it'd sure make my bucket list!!!!!!
Here you go Dave, not quite as white knuckled but you get lunch at the top of 104 mile trip. Jerry's Rogue Jets Oregon's only Mail Boat
Already did a ride on the Rogue, not with this company, but a great ride! Have a friend who used to live in Medford, Or. Spent some time out there and one of our trips included a Rogue River Jet Boat, fun ride!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 406Rich
The wife and I took this trip a couple of years ago. It was amazing to experience such a large boat, traveling at such a high speed, sometimes... in water little more than a foot deep!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 406Rich
thanks for posting that clip Roger and yes the Shotover River is an amazing ride. I have never been on the Shotover Jets as they are too expensive for the average Kiwi but I have had the pleasure of boating up the gorge up past the docks to the waterfall which is as far as one can go in a jet boat.A friend and I build a jet boat up for racing powered by a 350 cu. in. chevy with a 3 stage modified jet unit that we took up the river from Queenstown a few years ago. From Queenstown you go across the Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu down, and I mean down as the bridge is also the flood control gates for the lake and you get the boat air borne with the drop, the up lane is blasted so that it is like climbing stairs in a boat, onto the Kawarau River. The Shotover empties out onto the Kawarau which is a very deep fast flowing river but once you turn onto the Shotover it is a excellent shallow river which is wide with many channels to pick.Where the Shotover Jets come down to is where the river broadens and they do a couple of 360's and then return up the river. We had to contact the company that run the Jets as they have exclusive rights to that part of the river for safety reasons, and had to wait at the point of where they turn around and then we were invited to follow them up river and then once they changed passengers,we followed them down stream. Through the gorge it is very narrow but the water is very deep so they put the boat in close to the walls to add a bit more excitement. The boats were powerd by 454 Chevy big blocks using two single stage commercial prepared jet units. I am not too sure if they still use those engines today. Just phoned my brother in law who supplies all there filters etc. and they are now powered by 3.8 Buick V6's side by side.
Thanks for sharing the Rogue, if you keep on hiking from the lunch spot for a couple of days you will witness some of the best landscapes around!Quote:
Originally Posted by 406Rich
But that shotover river stuff is crazy! Sign me up!:eek: