Useful links
Feel free
to e-mail me if you'd like to add any high-performance boating
or marine related links.
Boating & high-performance marine parts links
Trick
Marine has lots of hard to find, high performance marine
parts.
Located on Cornet Bay, Marine Services serves the San Juan Islands and Northwest Washington..
Visit
Ken at Pacific
Surfaces Drives for Arneson
Surface Drive parts.
Access
America Marine Export Guide has lots of great marine equipment
links.
Some
great boating magazines & forums; Trailer
Boats Magazine, Hot
Boat, Power
Boat Magazine, Scream
and Fly, Offshore
Only, Northwest
Offshore.
Airmark International has great prices on aircraft fittings.
Skagit
Valley College has an award winning Marine
Maintenance Technology Department.
High-performance
Cat models: Eliminator
Daytona 28, Eliminator
Daytona 30, Spektre
30, Spektre
32, and Skater
32
Lots
of Boat Racing action can be found at: Offshore
Super Series, Pacific
Offshore, Offshore
Performance Association,
Blue
Water Offshore Racing Association, and Offshore
Super Series Cat Lite racing
Here's
a custom creation by John Triplett of Nothing
But Customs.
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This
enclosed cockpit was custom designed to fit the 26 foot
American
Offshore cat hull which weighs 3,800 lbs. and has
a beam of 8' 6".
This
fully-enclosed cockpit greatly reduces wind noise and
makes for a very unique ride.
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This
particular customers boat is awaiting conversion to
turbine engine power.
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With
T58 turbine power and an Arneson Surface Drive this
unique vessel is expected to reach speeds in excess
of 125 MPH!
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Here's
a few recently released photos of the new Skater 30
prototype fitted with twin gas turbines.
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This
one's being rigged for twin Arneson Surface Drives (ASD7)
and is expected to reach 140 mph!
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Dennis
Fisher restored an original Ron
Jones ET Boat and is currently converting it to
T58 turbine power.
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Some
of my favorite online sources of information relating to high
performance boating include; Trailer
Boats Magazine, Hot
Boat, Power
Boat Magazine, Scream
and Fly, Offshore
Only, Northwest
Offshore. And if you find the need for formal training,
I suggest you checkout the classes available at the Skagit
Valley College Marine
Maintenance Technology Department, The Northwest Center of Excellence for Marine Manufacturing and Technology or your local Community
College.
Here's
a video of an offshore race boat screaming along at 202
mph! (turn up your speakers)
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