yes, some people do dumbass things on PWCs.

that's not what this thread is about.



i dumped most of a can of Seafoam into the half tank or so of fuel in the jet ski, then put 3 new spark plugs in it (the old ones looked ok...a little black and oily, but i'm thinking about par for the course since it's a 2-stroke). i started it up and ran it for a minute or two to get some of the Seafoam into the carbs.

as soon as i get a chance, i'm gonna go burn up the rest of that old gas and refill it with some fresh fuel. hopefully that solves things. if not, i guess the next thing to do is a carb cleaning/adjustment.

7/9/2006 11:04:30 PM

careful if you do the carbs yourself... they require synchronizing upon reinstalling, like bike carbs.

7/9/2006 11:08:26 PM

yeah, i don't have vacuum gauges to do it, and honestly, it's worth it to me (at least right now) to pay someone to do it...i prob average 60-65 hours per week doing stuff for flight school, and 80+ hours of work per week isn't really unusual.

7/9/2006 11:10:20 PM

I had to yell at some 50+ year old fucktard on a Sea Doo today. That faggot came within 5 feet of running over my wakeboard line and 15' from the girl that I was trying to pull up (we were waiting for her to get her feet in the boots.

Congrats on the purchase theDuke866. They're a lot of fun. I'm sure you have enough common sense not to look like an idiot while you're riding, but it's still a good idea to find a boater's safety handbook and flip through it if you haven't done much boating.

7/9/2006 11:11:40 PM

idiots drive/ride every form of aquatic vessel. pwc's just get the most attention.

7/9/2006 11:20:40 PM

I have no automatic beef with anyone on a jet ski. I love riding them myself. They just tend to be gateways to the boating world which means lots of n00bs.

N00bs + Fast Vehicles = Trouble.

To be fair...In the last two years I've had three close calls and two of them were boats.

[Edited on July 10, 2006 at 12:03 AM. Reason : l]

7/10/2006 12:01:29 AM

yeah i've done quad webbers on a big block....


it defines "not fun"

7/10/2006 2:56:57 AM

sailboats have right of way over mostly everything except commercially operating vessels and "encumbered" vessels. During my batshit crazy race, we were off the coast of West Palm Beach when a parasail boat litterally cut in front of us with less than 50 feet between us. We were doing 25 knots (faster than the parasail boat at the time) but he had rights because he was commercial and technically "encumbered" by the parasail. The only thing we could do was crash gybe the boat and tip her over to keep from getting fouled in the parasail line and potential killing some poor sap tourist. It sucked too because we came in last that leg after that capsize.

But as for PWCs....

7/10/2006 8:49:34 AM

^ most annnoying thing in any sailboat is people coming up close to look at it and getting in the way the fucktards don't realize that you can't just manuver and change direction at will to go around them especially heading upwind, and when you're by yourself flying a hull in 25 mph wind doing all you can trying to balance the damn thing with the main sheet and the rudder, you can't pay that damn much attention to shit right around you, just on you're heading way the hell ahead of you

7/10/2006 10:00:01 AM

can't take credit for this but....

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"I'm sure you all know why pwc are like farts: there loud, smelly and if there wouldn't be any without assholes"

69: We had a guy do that to us outside of Miami inlet. He and his family were on a smallish center console powerboat and was on a collision course with us. As we got closer, we saw that the guy wasn't even at the controls but underneath the console fishing out his camera. Dude was less than 20' away before I yelled out "HEY DUDE WATCHOUT!" He popped up from behind the console and started shooting away with the camera. We didn't get pissed because he did throttle back and wasn't moving very fast and had 3 kids up on the bow waving and saying hello to us.

7/10/2006 10:03:48 AM

all hail Maugan, ruler of the seas

[Edited on July 10, 2006 at 12:22 PM. Reason : .]

7/10/2006 12:22:38 PM

maybe I'll look like an octopus face soon

7/10/2006 12:44:07 PM

maugan i'll be sure to cut you off when you're paddling in our windless cove. get on 16 you fucking badass

7/10/2006 4:47:40 PM

hey, will a 3-series BMW tow a jet ski without much trouble? i know it's not the best tool for the job for pulling a trailer long distances on a regular basis, but would it do the job (including travel on the interstate if need be)?

7/10/2006 6:45:40 PM

yeah but a v8 5 does it better

hell down the street they pull a lil boat with a fuckin saab 9-5

7/10/2006 7:06:58 PM

shouldn't be a problem, a single ski and trailer shouldn't weigh much if any more than 500-800lbs. depending on model, etc. most every vehicle on the planet is rated to tow at least 1k.

7/10/2006 7:08:20 PM

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"yeah i've done quad webbers on a big block.... it defines "not fun" "

yeah sure you have. youre so full of shit.

7/10/2006 7:08:42 PM

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"Crushed walnut shells work wonders. They float on the surface and get sucked into the impellers and nobody is the wiser. "

7/10/2006 7:18:42 PM

^^gg
^so do malotave cocktails onto sails btw, a crushed walnut shell really isn't going to hurt anything.

7/10/2006 7:29:12 PM

i'd argue but its not worth my time the motor isn't in a car and until it is yall will just call b.s.
the whole motor is mounted on a pallet jack in front of the thunderbird in my garage.

7/10/2006 7:46:18 PM

uhh if a walnut shell gets shoved in an impeller, its going to fuck it up I promise.

7/10/2006 9:09:56 PM

a full wallnut would get stuck in a variable pitch impeller i'm sure

7/10/2006 9:16:29 PM

are we talking about a raw water impeller?

7/10/2006 9:21:11 PM

^^^i'm assuming you're talking about a pwc impeller... a walnut shell is not going to cause any harm.

7/10/2006 11:29:27 PM

nope sure wont

7/11/2006 9:21:06 AM

well, i took it out today along with a buddy on his Sea-Doo RXP...had to jump start my Ultra--it's been starting easily until today (when i did the test ride, and a couple of times i've started it in the driveway since then). after 15 minutes or so, it started running a LITTLE better...would maintain an indicated 48-49 (which was showing ~53 on the RXP's speedo when he was riding along beside me)...still nowhere near how it should be running. i don't think it was revving much past 5k (i don't know how high it should rev, but i'm pretty sure it's well above 5k).

i finally ran out pretty much all of the old gas, then pulled into the marina and filled it up. unfortunately, my friend had to go home at that point (and we had them both on his trailer), so I didn't get to try it out with fresh gas. Hopefully that will offer some more improvement.

7/12/2006 10:45:53 PM

I'm not sure how PWC engines are but with outboards you never start your motor without water running through it.

7/12/2006 10:57:55 PM

^ certainly not for very long at least.

7/12/2006 10:59:10 PM

Well with outboards unless you have muffs you are gonna fuck up the motor. On the newer four-stroke motors there are so big muffs don't work because you can't get enough water pressure to make it pee and the motor will overheat in a heartbeat.

[Edited on July 12, 2006 at 11:05 PM. Reason : g/s/p]

7/12/2006 11:01:53 PM

hmmm..... i'd never do it to start with but i didn't know that.


i know jetskis usually have a place to hook up a garden hose to run them out of the water.

7/12/2006 11:12:11 PM

yeah, i'm talking about running it for a couple of minutes with the garden hose attached

7/12/2006 11:15:36 PM

make sure you always crank the motor before throwing the water to it.

7/12/2006 11:16:13 PM

yeah, and turn the water off before killing the engine

7/12/2006 11:17:13 PM

One day Duke you will grow up and realize its much more fun to do 12 knots in 9-10 foot seas out on the open water.

7/12/2006 11:21:37 PM

that would prob be fun, too

but this is a little more down my line, and i can't afford it all (yet).

7/12/2006 11:27:37 PM

hell I've got both a small powerboat and a jetski, and I have to agree that there can be assholes on any type of watercraft. I've seen dicks run through a cove on a 20' pontoon doing 20+, i've seen curtious jet ski riders, asshole jet ski riders... good powerboat owners and asshole powerboat owners.... I only ride the ski at the beach in the ICW/new river area and always obey the rules of the road... i ride a center console fishing boat at the beach and do the same and try to do my best at local lakes with my boat... what I cannot stand is when you have fucking fishing boats in the middle of the damn channel or whatever, or on both sides and then you get pissed off when I stroll by you doing 45... fuck you... don't get pissed at me when I'm operating a boat in the channel and you just happen to be fishing there... that gets me pissed off to no end... but then you're chilling in a cove or near the entrance and the bassboat flys by doing 50+ throwing wake everywhere... it just kills me the double standard that these guys live by... /rant

7/13/2006 11:24:53 AM

it has more to do with respect for others on the lake and per capita there are less jet ski owners that have any than any other group...

I go to smith mountain lake more than anything in nc (house there)

and on that lake just after dawn the respectful speed freaks come out and play when no one else is on the lake... granted a blown 454 jet boat with open headers tends to wake some people up i'd rather them do that than try to weave through the people while the lake is crowded.

7/13/2006 11:39:17 AM

Some of that shit doesn't even compare to the assholes on the fishing grounds who have no respect for your grear in the water and will run it over or just won't pay attention and force you to make extreme turns and cross lines, (you haven't lived untill you tangle two spreader bars). Its the responsibility of both operates to avoid each other. I haven't had an offshore trip that hasn't ended with me giving the finger to some asshat.

7/13/2006 12:00:01 PM

yeah offshore is a different bread altogether... esp in tournys... fagettaboutit

7/13/2006 3:07:08 PM

haha, i got back from riding yesterday, and busted my roommate's balls about how he hadn't bought a ski yet (he's been talking about it for a while).

he came home with a GP1200 today.

7/13/2006 5:29:26 PM

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"but then you're chilling in a cove or near the entrance and the bassboat flys by doing 50+ throwing wake everywhere... it just kills me the double standard that these guys live by... /rant"

A bass boat at 50MPH has almost no wake. The boat is barely touching the water at that speed.


btw...Them bass must be some fast fucking fish. Evidently you need 250+ HP on a tiny boat in order to catch one.


Spotted this earlier: Ultra 150 cover on sale at Overtons in case you need one. http://overtons.com/modperl/overtons/detail/pdetail2.cgi?r=detail_view&item_num=3004524&fcat=6E

[Edited on July 13, 2006 at 5:51 PM. Reason : s]

7/13/2006 5:48:27 PM

Quote :

"Them bass must be some fast fucking fish. Evidently you need 250+ HP on a tiny boat in order to catch one."

All for tournament fishing, where you gotta get to the quality holes and back in time for weigh in.

7/13/2006 5:58:02 PM

^yep. it's a must for the serious recreational fisherman as well, if you've really got a lake mapped out you know there's a window of time at each spot where it's "peak", and those windows can be only minutes apart.

7/13/2006 6:11:49 PM

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"A bass boat at 50MPH has almost no wake. The boat is barely touching the water at that speed. "

after I hit post reply i realized what i wrote... what i meant was when they are blasting off and slowing down to/from 50...

i've never understood those boats, and probably never will... oh well

7/13/2006 7:59:39 PM

what's not to understand...they have a shallow draft and a big motor.

7/13/2006 9:08:31 PM

no i mean their use... i just don't get bass fishing at all... probably never will, offshore and coastal fishing I get... bass I just don't... I guess learning to fish in Alaska kind of blurred my vision of what fishing is... as for the boats, hell you can only fit one or two people on em and there's nowhere to relax!!! difference of usage of boats for me, i guess i just don't see bass fishing as relaxing as some do...

7/13/2006 10:15:22 PM

i'm sure it's not as relaxing as many other types of fishing...it's a competitive affair

Quote :

"as for the boats, hell you can only fit one or two people on em and there's nowhere to relax!!!"

well shit, my old GSX-R 750 wouldn't haul nearly as much stuff around as my dad's Gold Wing. It was also uncomfortable as hell to ride. It devoured an expensive set of tires every 2000-3000 miles, had no reverse, was expensive to insure, drew more attention from cops than Dad's 'wing, required more maintainance, etc.

In short, it was a shit hot, awesome machine.

7/13/2006 10:45:05 PM

haha . . . doesn't this suck. anyone want some new skis?

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/boa/181439049.html

7/13/2006 11:51:30 PM

^ That guy should just get some young hottie to ride with him while his wife sits on the dock and sulks.

7/14/2006 12:01:07 AM

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"My wife thought it was a great idea and after the first time she will no longer go out"

haha pussywhipped

7/14/2006 12:38:44 AM