{"id":18596,"date":"2017-06-08T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2017-06-09T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:01:28","slug":"the-insane-3000hp-world-of-helicopter-propelled-jetboats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/the-insane-3000hp-world-of-helicopter-propelled-jetboats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insane 3000hp World of Helicopter-Propelled Jetboats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Machines4u quiz time!<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Question: What\u2019s cooler than a jetboat?<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Answer: If you responded with \u2018helicopter\u2019 you\u2019d be correct. If you answered \u2018helicopter-propelled jetboat\u2019 well sir\/madam, you deserve a handshake.<\/p>\n<p>As if jetboats weren\u2019t awesome (and dangerous) enough, some keen (and bonkers) boat racers are taking things to the next level. And turns out, it&#8217;s been trending for years among the racing community. Adding helicopter engines to watercraft is the new black, didn\u2019t you know?<\/p>\n<p>One such bonkers bloke is kiwi, Shaun Kelly, who has installed a chopper\u00a0engine into his racing boat, dubbing it the \u2018fighter jet\u2019. Reaching speeds of up to 240kph, this beast is fast enough to rip the hair plugs right out of your scalp. Shaun is a keen racer, regularly appearing on the leader boards in New Zealand Jet Boat River Racing Association races. Coming second in the 2016 Jet Boat Marathon, Shaun was testing out his new beast on the water, and keen to start winning races <a href=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/963482464001\/HJiGOMree_default\/index.html?videoId=5358445494001\" target=\"_blank\">when he spoke with TVNZ<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/963482464001\/HJiGOMree_default\/index.html?videoId=5358445494001\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The World Jet Boat Championships are coming up in October, and it is there that Shaun hopes to find himself atop the leader board once again.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun isn\u2019t the only boat racer who\u2019s had this ingenious idea. In fact, way back in 2011 there were another bunch of crazy kiwis Frankensteining their way to jetboat glory. Built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/19132-helicopter-modified-boat-to-race.html\">Dean Landon for Mark Cromie<\/a>, this particular boat is capable of speeds up to around 217kph. Dean also built the boat Mark Comie raced in the world championships\u00a0in 2016, and the team are no stranger to leader boards either, it seems.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18600\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18600\" src=\"\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/111128-Jet-boat-helicopter-turbine4.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Cromie Jetboat\" width=\"468\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magmedia.machines4u.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/08152255\/111128-Jet-boat-helicopter-turbine4.jpg 468w, https:\/\/magmedia.machines4u.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/08152255\/111128-Jet-boat-helicopter-turbine4-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Image Credit: <a href=\"\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/111128-Jet-boat-helicopter-turbine4.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">sunlive.co.nz<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If those two mean machines weren&#8217;t enough to whet your appetite, this next one will surely do the trick. Slick, quick and built for thrills, this H1 Unlimited 3000hp monster hydroplane will leave you in need of an underwear change. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h1unlimited.com\/hydros-101\/\" target=\"_blank\">H1 website gives us a taste<\/a> of the insanity behind these boats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A modern Unlimited Hydroplane is the world\u2019s fastest racing boat, capable of speeds in excess of 200 mph. It represents the product of over 100 years of evolution in race boat design and incorporates the most powerful engines, most advanced construction techniques and the best safety systems available in boat racing today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"GoPro: Fastest Hydroplane on Earth\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_AArltTNRaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re sold. The next time we&#8217;ve got a spare few hundred thousand bucks, we know where we&#8217;ll be headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machines4u quiz time! Question: What\u2019s cooler than a jetboat? Answer: If you responded with \u2018helicopter\u2019 you\u2019d be correct. If you answered \u2018helicopter-propelled jetboat\u2019 well sir\/madam, you deserve a handshake. As if jetboats weren\u2019t awesome (and dangerous) enough, some keen (and bonkers) boat racers are taking things to the next level. And turns out, it&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9853],"tags":[15447,15446,15445,15444],"yst_prominent_words":[15435,915,15439,3514,4273,15433,15443,15430,15432,10658,15431,11863,4291,15440,15441],"class_list":["post-18596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-machines","tag-helicopter","tag-hydroplane","tag-jet-fuel","tag-jetboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}