MyWay II. What the hell is he doing.
 

I've been fortunate enough to cross paths with the new MyWay several times now on the St. Lawrence, but today takes the cake. I saw him coming up the Canadian Side between the 1000 islands bridge and Brockville. Then he came by again and again and again. Finally I realized that he was buzzing his other boat 'HerWay'. I came in close and saw some really big camera equipment on board. They must have hired professional photographers. Tomlinson drove the MyWay about 50 feet off the nose of HerWay back and forth for nearly an entire hour. It was f***ed up. The parade of power last weekend was 1/4 mile off shore. This was a stones throw from the bow of my boat. He had to be doing at least as fast as last weekend (170 mph+). Nobody can truly appreciate that until they see it up close flat out. The noise is just like an airshow. I wonder if it was a shoot for powerboat magazine or something. When the boat slowed, I saw the Minds in Motion crew on board. I'll try to get a hold of them for some pictures. One guy on HerWay video taping I think. Some avi. files please, if you're out there?

Anybody else see this free show?

Ron.

Yeah... I was there.
 

The photographers were actually from National Geographic. I was the guy on the boat with the camcorder. I'll post some avi. files tomorrow.

I've read a lot of your posts, Ron. You seem to know a lot about MyWay. Here's the facts. My partners and I started working on the boat around March. We designed, built, and installed just about everything in the engine compartment that didn't come from a factory. Yes, we did build the exhaust, and those 'sweet intakes' as you describe them. We love to hear positive feed back like that. Many hours of research went into that system. And buiding it was a bit of a trick. I'm sure that Mr. Tomlinson would like to keep the specifics a secret for now. He hates to get passed, though I'm pretty sure that it's never happened. Certainly not with the new boat anyway.

Today was awesome. The photographers were very surprised. Bill was 'buzzing' us at around 150 mph. Very difficult to catch a close-up picture. The sound will change your life.

Jon

Bring it on!!!

Jet Set?
 

Nice flames. Is that a North-American boat? If so, why did we not see it at the 1000 Islands poker run?

Jet Set has been around for a long time he is from the NJ area, The only poker run he may do is NY and thats rare! He has one of the fastest if not the fastest Skater in this country at a top speed in the 190s with more throttle to go. He is also known to throw a 20ft flame out the back of boat boat in show biz mode!
My wife went for a ride with him and loved it.

MindsInMotion

Is it tommorow yet? Where's the AVI's? :D

Sorry!
 

I'm about ready to pull my friggin' hair out. I spent three hours last night trying to convert the video to digital format. Finally we got everything set up right and recorded 4 nice clips, about 30 seconds each. When I got home and popped the cd in, the files were not recognized. I love windows xp, but what the hell? It's a simple mp2 file. My system says that I don't have the right codec, but microsoft says that I do. Anybody have any ideas?

In any event, I swear that I'll go to the end of the earth if need be to convert these files. You will see them soon I hope.

Just to keep your mouth watering, this morning the Tomlinson boys set a new personal best of 175 mph! Apparently they were taking a couple other people out for a ride at the time. Feel sorry for those guys. I was in it at 163 mph on Saturday and I didn't like it a bit. It's pretty smooth, but I guess I'm not a very good passenger.:(

Jon

MIM, I don't ride well either. I've been about 110 in a 36 Skater but I trusted the driver very much.

You might try downloading Divx if you don't have it. It helped me with some Codec issues.

http://www.divx.com/divx/

ps you might want to look at your signature.

That is unless you have a bad cold. :D

They got a long way to go. I saw 195mph in Jet Set and he had something left.

Jim
 

Thanks for pointing out the typo in 'remember'. Up until this weekend I had never broken 60 mph on the water. 110 would have been enough for me. My brother in law, Ken, was on the throttles. I trust him, but can you really trust 100000 little mechanical bits and pieces running together at that speed? I put the engines in the boat, so I know first hand what makes it tick. Frankly it scares the hell out of me. But, that's why I'm not an offshore racer. Well, that and the fact that I don't have ten million bucks in the bank!

Jet Set 195mph? Radar or GPS?
 

How do you measure that speed? I'm curious, because I was reading a dispute a while back about speed claims. Seems to me that the best bet is GPS. Also seems to me that air pitot would be the worst. After all, a row boat can do 55 mph if it's headed in to the wind. Don't get me wrong. Anybody doing more than 150 mph in an open cockpit has got screws loose in their head.

Skeptical, but open minded to the right explanations. Let's hear it.

Ron

Minds in Motion,
My friend is the only one I will ever ride with at that speed. He is scared to hell of his boat at that speed too. You'd be crazy not to. Mostly he's scared of turning. I think that is a good thing. It's probably more like extreme respect than fear, but both are good for self preservation.

A good friend of mine puts on a poker run in Canada and he brought his brother-in-law with him in his new 32' Velocity that does high 80's. They launched off a wave that wasn't extremely big but when they landed his brother-in-law broke his back.:( He called 911 and had to have him removed from the boat. Very sad.

I've ridden with this guy before and he is a good driver. He even took lessons from Velocity for a while to learn the boat.

I like my (hopefully) 70-75 mph Cafe Racer. Not too many worries about landing too hard and I'm driving.:D

I'll know for sure next year at the SCOPE poker run. Look out Pacific Ocean.:cool:

JetSet won this year's NYC poker run with an AVERAGE speed of 172 from the GW bride to the Tappan Zee bridge. About a 20 mile run. He has been radared in the 190s. He has been GPSed in the 190s.

The day I was on the boat (now more than a few times) (this was my first time on it with a boat load of Marine Police buddies). We ran with the breeze at our backs and saw 195 on the front seat Speedo and 193 on the back seat speedo. Both are air speed indicators. Believe it. The engines put out 1850 hp each.

There is nothing below the hull. No water pickups as the engines are air cooled. He needs just 4 inches of water at 100mph. And it can be full of weeds, who cares, just chop em up.

Nuts? You must realize that if any thing happens at that speed, it would probably be ugly. Frankly my concern was that the 1/4 canopy would let go and take my head off.

Click on the video clips at Darren's site

Leave your brains on the dock... and go for the ride of your life.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :D

Thats a ride ! Huh Ron ?? I was in Jet Set with less power and the wrong props and saw mid 180's running north AND south!! I am very glad I got the chance to do it but I wonder if I would do it again ....... Of course , 20 years ago ,60 was too fast . 10 years ago , 100 was too fast . Now 100mph is pretty common . So you can't say he's crazy for doing 180-190 . It's just the next step !:cool: Just because some of us don't do it on a regular basis dosen't mean it's wrong or crazy. THe BLOW boaters cry about us doing 50 .

How fast will boats be in 10 more years ? What power will they have and what will they look like ?

Ron P!
 

Thanks for the reply. I didn't have any idea how many horse ponies the Jet Set had. I guess that 190's shouldn't be a problem. There's a few brave guys out there that seem to want to do this with open cockpits. I watched some offshore yesterday. 120 mph is big and the boats are blowing over! So what's the deal with 190? This is the only racing industry where the weekend hobby boaters are faster than the league racers. Oh well, makes the lakes and rivers a hell of a lot more interesting. Unless you're a bird watcher!:p


Later.

Ron