John Fereira wrote: I don't want to spoil your glee, but a jet ski doesn't have a prop. nor a propeller shaft. The reason that it's *called* a jet ski is because it's propelled with a "jet" of water. The engine will have a water intake and the motor is connected a kind of turbine that spits the water back out. Rather than have a propellor a jet ski has an impeller. Pretty much the same thing except enclosed. There is a shaft that goes straight from the motor through the impeller. The fun thing (for us, not the jet skier) is that when they ingest a rope it not only binds up the impeller it also bends the impeller shaft. This gets expensive fast. I know this because I used to own a jet powered ski boat before I saw the light and bought a kayak. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 18:22:32 PDT
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