Jet boats will not go in 4” of water.1’ no problem just keep moving.

[Liveto99]

 

[Bluewater272]

Been there, done that - lol. Hope no issues.

 

[Liveto99]

just tired on way back in tonight and talking not looking. Was peeing muddy water. Pushed it off and ran it to marina it is ok I think.

 

[Liveto99]

 

[captras]

I keep my depth alarm at 3 feet. Hopefully that will give me enough warning to pay attention! Of course at WOT, your probably screwed . Hope everything is OK!

 

[Maillis]

I’d be concerned about sand in the engine cooling passages. Hopefully it all got pushed out.

 

[gwrace1]

Yeah 3 feet on the depth alarm sounds perfect. Will set mine the same. That is what the manual recommends.

 

[jacoviii]

Yep. We were on a boat run @ LOZ with our new '17 242x. We have had a '98 Yamaha exciter for 14 yrs. Well we were following a group of skis up the lake/ river. The alarm had went off a few times earlier in the day and I thought it was messed up. So the guys on the skies said they know the way. Well next thing I see is the skies roaster tail of mud. I pined it hard to port and the boat came off plane and sat down in the mud ( shin deep water). It took 3 hrs 10 people 400 feet of rope and a supercharged Yam wave runner to get us out. Tow boat wanted $2500 to do the job.

 

[Liveto99]

3’ lol running in the Everglades park most is less than 3’ that’s y it’s great to have a jet boat no one else up here.

 

[Liveto99]

So in the center of the circle a little ahead of the black arrow that pink line that comes around that is what I hit. I was traveling with the red arrow. And my marina is right on the other side. Completely dumb mistake. Was about 20’ to far over 5’ more to the left would have been fine But boat was not moving any more. Just firm mud.

 

[Liveto99]

 

[2kwik4u]

I did something really similar on Old Hickory two years ago. Was just idling along and the boat just stopped. Went from ~12in to ~4in quickly. Luckily the bow stopped as and I was able to "back off" and go around.

I should really get a depth sounder!

 

[Liveto99]

Won’t work that shallow. forward Scan should. You just get used to driving over anything when you have a jet boat and a Jeep.

 

[zipper]

That is the reason my father loves his Maverick 17HPX-S skinny water flats boat. He says he can do 40mph in 6" s of water, with the a Yamaha 150, on his way to fish in the Mangroves away from any Red Tide. Videos - Maverick



It goes into places their Scout cannot in the Englewood area.

 

[Dean P]

With my 192 I was told 6" but only on plane. With this boat, I get really nervous at 10". A few weeks back, I was in a "V" that was probably near a foot and I bumped. I keep my alarm at 1.5-2.0 range other wise it would always be going off.

 

[svana]

My depth finder maybe works 10% of the time... It's Yamaha's OEM that I understand is pretty subpar. First boat trip out I was taking it down to it's home marina around 20mph and didn't see that the channels took a hard right and boom - right onto the soft sand. At least it was a story that me and my buddy will remember for a long time lol. I've got my Garmin 73 currently measuring my depth from a cardboard box - probably will read better mounted to the boat.

 

[Marvin willis]

I understand

 

[Dean P]

View attachment 113306 I understand

LOL, been there! Spent the night at a spoil island (different boat) and we woke up with the boat on its side with no water for at least 50'. people laughing as they drove by.

 

[buckbuck]

Guess it is time to bring out some of my favorite memories. The potential of these things happening is why we bought a Yamaha.

 

[Cambo]

The scary thing about running in shallow water is how abruptly the boat will stop and if passengers will hit anything from a violent stop . I have pulled the James bond run over a small sand bar at dusk it was about 6' of bare sand maybe 2'' out of the water I was standing came off my feet and rolled my ankle when I landed but the friction was short lived due to the short distance. It felt like a medium car brake force of forward body motion the boat must have come up quickly in height then dropped back down that was more of the jolt . This was the smaller ls series hull