Image of the Week: Turbine Wars
 

Another stunner from Jay Nichols, http://speedonthewater.com/in-the-ne...bine-wars.html.

According Nichols, this image has never been published before.

Incredible photo.

very nice,its to bad that we will never see these two boats side by side again!

JUMBO JETS.... one of our favorite pictures.

Whatever happened to the JBS boat? I don't see it listed for sale on here any more.

Jay!

You were at the right place at the right time when you took that one of a kind picture. Add it all together and you get a WINNING photo. Just awesome. Wish they were still battling on the race course.

never say never !!!

What are you up to Arruda?!?!

Nothing !!!!
It would be nice to see that Yellow boat out there again.
What do you think ?

A good image of the week should always evoke discussion.

Carry on, gentlemen.

What a shot!

Two serious boats!

What's that weird thing right in front of Geico about to get run over? Loch-ness monster?.. :lolhit:
Amazing difference in the rooster tails between the two as well. I'm guessing Geico must've been hopping a bit there? Awesome shot Jay!

The difference in rooster tails is that JBS has inboard prop rotation, and the Geico MTI has outboard rotation.

One of my all time favorites, too!

The frame in this post is a couple after the Jumbo Jets shot-
if you compare them, the roosts are starting to lay down a little in this one.

Still one of the most awesome sights I've ever witnessed-
watching it happen through the telephoto was like my own private big screen.

Thanks again, Matt!

Bird. They were all over the place that day.

J,wasen,t the geico boat destroyed from a fire?

that's a mti not the mystic

god i love it. grate pic

did the geico team have 2 turbine powered boats?

yes 44 mti/ 50 mystic

i did not know that,thanks for the info.

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listi...&access=Public

This was the miss geico mti right? So who bought it and is it going racing? and Who bought the old Jbs boat? is that going racing too? If So HELL YES!

That was not the Geico MTI, yes a friend out of St. Pete bought it for poker runs.
The Geico boat that burned was the Mystic

who us...just minding our own business. :)

Ok so the question where are the old geico mit and jbs mystic? and are they going racing?

The gieco MTI has been on the boat show circut since the got the mystic doubt you'll ever see it racing again as a gieco boat. and who knows about JBS. He complained about the boat and not being able to get sponsors then wanted a ton of money for it.

Any inkling of a hint as to what Miss Geico Racing is going to be campaining this year - the boat that was in the works as per Sharkey's images, the same boat run after their tragic incident with the Mystic or something else?????

I'm up here in a snow storm watching their turbine vid's....