How Fast Is This Boat?
 

Border Patrol boat that patrols western Lake Erie. They're not sayin'.
Four 300 Mercs.
Note gun mounts fore and aft!
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My educated guess - mid-60's.

But the bullets are going a hell of a lot faster.

that boat was up here for a few years on lake ontario they had little sassquatch decals on the windows their moto was" you might see us but you don,t know who we are" ....their mission was looking for drug running subs and would run all night using a 1000 in fuel each night they would show up and act like navy seals and had a huge attitude issue they pretty much did not get along with anyone it was a branch of customs. the boat is not fast and broke often but the 20,000 grand seats were cool

Yeah, they're big bullets too! I would have thought faster than mid 60s.

FL coast guard uses similar boats but only seen triples not any quad boats. I would guess mid-upper 60's is the limit on those.

They are made to be stable not fast.

Back in my Jet Ski days we were sitting in the locks with a Coast guard boat like that and they asked us to race them. I thought it was some kind of trick to bust us but the locks opened and it was game on.
None of our skis were stock of course and on a calm river they had no chance.
Since then I can always say I outran the Coast Guard :evilb:

I know for fact 60+ not sure on top end. Ran into one of those all blacked out up on the St. Lawrence one day when I was the only boat on the river....came up a LOT quicker than I expected.

Came up and ran next to a triple Honda engined one in Galveston Bay. He seemed to be maxed out around 60.

OK, not as fast as I thought. I figured at least 75. I'm gonna defend these guys. I see them a lot and they have never bothered me. On this day we were taking a beer break at the Detroit River Light on our way to PIB. We went over to them to talk to them. They asked if I wanted to trade boats. I said sure, as long as they include the weapons.They asked how fast I was. I said mid 80s. They said I could outrun them then. I'm like, yeah, right, until the choppers show up. Saw them again at PIB that day and went over to say Hi. They are good people. At least they have been to me.

Drug running subs on Ontario? I've never heard that before.

They are mostly good people. However if you run into a bunch of new recruits, look out they will stop anything that moves. I even have pictures where they ordered a guy to back his boat off the beach so that they could board him mid-river.

65mph tops!

Almost all of those guys that I've met have been super nice, they don't have much to complain about. A bad day on the water is still better than a good day on land!

I think the CG guys are typically pretty cool. It's usually the local weekend cops who are out to prove how bad they are!

That boat belongs to ICE (immigration and customs enforcement). It is a division of DHS. Border patrol boats are white with the green stripe. CBP is on border patrol. It is a 65 mph boat on its best day. I think they have a quad one in ohio, the quad one by the light is the one that sits at elizabeth park. There is also a triple ICE boat there, triple CBP boat with hondas, then a pile of wayne county sheriff boats. Some days those are the coolest guys on the lake and just want to talk boats and look at stuff, other days they will come right up on you, board you and harass you. It all depends on who gets you that day. Keep in mind there are 5 different law enforcement agencies that patrol the south end of the detroit river.

They don't like having their picture taken either. Good way to get boarded. :angry-smiley-038:

They would have been welcomed aboard. I've only been boarded by the CG and it's always at Detroit. That's another beer stop. We like to stop and drift by the water front. It's always been once a year and every time I got a certificate that said "thank you for promoting safe boating" ha! I have to make sure that everyone knows not to get cocky with the feds because they can do anything they want. Sheriff's and local PDs are another story :).

I was stopped by the CG on the St. Lawrence last spring, they were nothing but nice. It probably did look a tad suspicious in hind sight...44* weather, half rain, some clown in a loud boat running 70 or so :D

Hey come on...the more of us that get out there and do it, the less suspicious it is! :D

I have seen that boat or similar on the Detroit river many times. It is quick, but not terribly fast. It sounds pretty wicked with all 4 outboards singing. On another note, last year I was followed (I wasn't aware until I got to Wyandotte) by the Boarder Protection Chopper (White w/Blue Stripe) all the way back from PIB. I only realized them as I came off of plane as I looked over and they were damn near on top of me. They stayed above me while I idled into the dock, where I was greated by two Boarder Patrol Trucks, 3 agents and one dog. They were nice, just asked me where I was coming from and asked if I would let their dog on the boat. I wasn't super thrilled about that, but I had nothing to hide, and it beats the hell out of refusing and them making things difficult. But again, nice guys without attitude. Wish I could say the same for the D-Bag Wayne County water cops.