off power steering importance

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

I am posting this video that I made 5 years ago in a 24 foot Yamaha It is important to state that this boat hull was prior to the keel and rudder style that Yamaha makes now and that the hull was even more difficult to handle in off power steering than the new boats with the keel, also this test was done using just the cobra steering NO FANGS OR MEGA FANGS, just the steering!
I talk about the importance of having off power control but I am posting this for the newer jet boat peoples benefit.
Remember this is a larger boat than the 21 foot that was videoed loosing control in a turn while decelerating, this has even more centrifugal force that the smaller boat so it would want to cut out of the turn quicker making it more difficult to hold in a off power turn and to add insult to injury we tested the ability of the steering to turn in an off power situation by cutting the throttles BEFORE turning , NOW Think of that, we had to overcome the boat wanting to continue to travel straight And we were going 50 mph before cutting the throttles not just 30 or 35 so this would show you that we did everything we could think of to make the steering fail but it didn't!
I have another video we made two years ago in the same boat using the first run of the smaller fangs and in that video we did a S turn off power not just turning one way but then overcoming that turn and making an opposite turn. I don't think I need to explain just how important it is to have real all time steering in these boats. Even the boat owner doubted it was impossible to do an off power S turn but when it did it I said who's dreaming now! He was totally amazed.

 

[swatski]

I am posting this video that I made 5 years ago in a 24 foot Yamaha It is important to state that this boat hull was prior to the keel and rudder style that Yamaha makes now and that the hull was even more difficult to handle in off power steering that the new boats with the keel, also this test was done using just the cobra steering NO FANGS OR MEGA FANGS, just the steering.\
I talk about the importance of having off power control but I am posting this for the newer jet boat peoples benefit.
remember this is a larger boat than the 21 foot that was videoed loosing control in a turn while it decelerating, this has even more centrifugal force that the smaller boat so it would want to cut out of the turn quicker making it more difficult to hold in a off power turn, and to add insult to injury we tested the ability of the steering to turn in an off power situation by cutting the throttles BEFORE turning , NOW Think of that, we had to overcome the boat wanting to continue to travel straight . And we were going 50 mph before cutting the throttles not just 30 or 35 so this would show you that we did everything we could think of to make the steering fail but it didn't! I have another video we made in the same boat using the first run of the smaller fangs and in that video we did a S turn off power not just turning one way but then overcoming that turn and making an opposite turn. I don't think I need to explain just how important it is to have real all time steering in these boats.

Wow.

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