To prevent sucking up debris, slow or fast?

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

I know on my skies if I have a passenger I yell" WEEDS" that warns them to hold on for dear life as I carve around them like a mad man, because I can and it's fun. Now in shallow water do not go slow you will vacuum the bottom however in deep water idling into weeds has worked if you are already idling otherwise blast around it and if you get a bunch learn the reverse move .

 

[Scott Potter]

Can someone explain the "reverse move"?

 

[swatski]

Can someone explain the "reverse move"?

https://jetboaters.net/faq/i-keep-g...ps-any-tips-to-help-aka-the-reverse-trick.66/

 

[fairpilot]

most of my troubles of sucking stuff up was going slow (idle) I have sucked a few things up at speed but very very rare

 

[Chapvrx]

Does anyone know what’s the best tool to use to remove wood chip ,without removing great or the pump, it got stock between impeller and wearing any way to remove it? I wish I have clean out port

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Get a hair dryer and dry it out , that will cause it to shrink and make it easier to remove it

 

[Jgorm]

Pin it, then chop the throttle while you coast over it.

 

[Chapvrx]

Will have to try the blow dryer. Thanks Man.

I guess an Idea if me taking this rig over to Bimini is out of the window !

 

[Ilmmct]

Subscribed ... I boat in tidal sandy stuff, so don’t want to hijack this thread which is focused on sub-aquatic vegetation. After reading many forum posts and watching some videos of what those jets do in shallow water ... I “GO SLOW” when at 4’ or less, to minimize impact of sand ingestion on the impellers.

Is this “GO SLOW” approach right for those of us who boat in shallow sandy situations/times, when getting the boat on plane is not an option (e.g. no wake zones, near small boats/kayaks out of courtesy, other boats moored etc.)?

 

[Jgorm]

My river area is sandy and shallow. On the waverunner i don't do anything different if it's more than 2'. I don't even try to drive around the sand bars. The guys in the jet boats don't even stress if it's 1' deep and they are in plane. It's not going to suck anything off the bottom more than and 6" off the jet if you are at speed. Going slow it can generate a vortex and suck up stuff from farther away.

 

[2kwik4u]

All I know is when TX-DJ was running on plane in 8" going fast worked for him!

http://yamahajetboaters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24666&start=165&hilit=shallow+plane

I remember reading that thread back before I was even an owner, just lurker reading and learning.

 

[Chapvrx]

just for the info, was towing a board at about 18 mph , on a clean deep lake, and it caught small twig, so I think it doesn't matter slow or fast.

left the boat on a trailer, for 24h for the twig to dry helped, in removing it with a sharp metal spike

 

[2kwik4u]

Was on the Ohio today. Had no problem all day except once. Ran at planing speed and idle speed multiple times. No problem. Ohio was FULL of small debris today. Tons of twigs, sticks, leaves and such. I don't think staying on plane or idling around made a lick of difference for us today.

After running on plane down to the waterfront, we dropped to no wake mode and tooled back up river for a bit. When I hit the throttle to get back on plane, I got no thrust and a wonky vibration. Just as I started to let out, it "hooked" and felt like someone hit the transom with a sledge hammer. Engine revs dropped, and thrust came on strong. Just like spinning tires on pavement, complete with driveline shock. Really odd experience.

 

[ljn21]

Signed my purchase papers last night and then spent a few hours on the forum here reading. Totally getting cold feet and questioning whether I did the right thing choosing a jet over an I/O 227SSX. We will be boating on Lake Wylie in SC and there is quite a bit of leaves, sticks and debris always along the shores near the boat launches. Totally sweating thinking about having issues getting out onto the lake and having to do constant pump removals to clean out. Ugh, I am killing my own purchase buzz.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Learn my reverse move and opening the clean out will not be necessary very often. for floating weeds go slow and plow the water in front of your boat to push the weeds leaves etc away from the intake https://jetboaters.net/threads/issues-with-weeds.19097/#post-335283 many posts here is just one , I quickly pulled up