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JohnP
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Initially Posted - 08/17/2010 :  14:20:08  Show Profile
Visited friends in Montreal this last weekend. Five of us went for a boat ride. It was not sailing. My Honda 9.9 would not perform well under these conditions.

We had 1300 horsepower! A steel-hulled jet boat! Shooting the rapids on the St. Lawrence River.

These are the rapids that stopped Jacques Cartier in 1532 from exploring further up the river towards the Great Lakes. He sailed up from the Atlantic Ocean to what would become Montreal, met the natives, and decided that this must be China. So the town and the rapids are called La Chine! The Lachine Rapids.

What a ride!!! Talk about green water over the bow!!!

Here are some videos from the company: [url="http://www.jetboatingmontreal.com/en/videos.html"] Shooting the rapids[/url]
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Response Posted - 08/17/2010 :  14:55:48  Show Profile
I can show you a scene sorta like that at The Race, just off Fishers Island, where water literally flies into the air coming off 150' cliffs 60' below the surface. But I won't drive like that, and you won't need foul weather gear--we'll look at it from a distance--if the wind is opposing the tide, <i>quite</i> a distance--too far for a good Youtube video.

I hope we don't see that boat in the news some day after one of those high-speed blind runs by bridge abutments and freighters...
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 08/17/2010 :  16:49:50  Show Profile
There's not enough rum in the world.
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Response Posted - 08/18/2010 :  09:41:31  Show Profile
another example of ignorance being bliss...
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JohnP
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Response Posted - 08/19/2010 :  05:55:49  Show Profile
I should comment that the jet boats are operated extremely safely at all times, particularly when traveling (at about 50-60 mph) from the city dock precisely along the route to the rapids past a series of private navigation aids.

The steel hulled jet boats ride on plane at 10-20 knots over the waves upstream, spin around in a mock attempt to capsize, then dive into each of the rapids at about 5 knots then accelerate out the other side, drenching and cooling us off successfully.

See the 5 of us smiling? The green guy merely tolerated the bouncing, but he was ok!

Those video ads, taken with long lenses, showed a boat close to some freighter and passing close to a bridge. But on the actual boatride the closest freighter to us was perhaps half a mile away on the wharf.

Sorry for showing a fun, powerboating activity.

It was just a moment of weakness on vacation.

Happy sailing!!!
Edited by - JohnP on 08/19/2010 06:00:07
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/19/2010 :  06:42:03  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by JohnP</i>
<br />Sorry for showing a fun, powerboating activity. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Hey, I have fun on mine all the time--I just don't go into it here... You can watch me (or some others) live, at a much lower (no wake) speed going through the [url="http://www.mystictoday.com/mystic_ct_webcam_sp-oyster.html"]Mystic Highway Drawbridge[/url], which opens hourly at xx:40. I'll be going out (R-L) and back (L-R) sometime this afternoon... (Click the button at the lower-right and then you can pan and zoom the camera.) On many openings you'll see the schooner Argia going in or out--she does 2-hour day-sails. The old coal-fired ferry Sabino goes out from the Seaport on the 17:40 and back on the 18:40 opening.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 08/19/2010 :  07:05:18  Show Profile
Maneuvers like a jet ski . . . piloted like a jet ski
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