Your ‘Big Red’ Jet Boat - Different From Other Boats, It Has No External Parts

Your Shotover Jet ‘Big Red’ Jet Boat is different from other boats, it has no external parts and instead of a propeller and rudder your ‘Big Red’ uses Jet Units for propulsion, steering and control.

Water is drawn in through two intakes in the bottom of your ‘Big Red’, two Jet Units containing impellers (internal propellers) then compress and drive the water out through two jet nozzles at the rear of the Jet Boat with great force (nearly 400 litres of water per second per Jet Unit) and it is the force of this water that propels your Jet Boat. Steering is achieved by turning the jet nozzles which changes the direction of the water forced out the back of the Jet Boat and the Jet Boat therefore changes direction. Your Jet Boat can also brake and reverse using ‘deflectors’ and 'thrust buckets' similar to a jet aircraft.