Outboard Jets: Guide to Installations and Performance

By Edward West

This Guide Book contains much information, from where and how to install outboard Jet motors, engineering design details of tunnels,
boat bottom designs, detail explanations as to how jet pumps work, to answering common operational and performance questions
and much, much more.
It is also set up to be used as a reference guide for continuous use when providing these services to outboard jet boat set ups.
With all this extensive general and specific detail information, the following people will benefit from reading and using this guide.

1. People looking to buy a Jet boat setup—
2. New jet boat owners—
3. Long time owners/ operators of outboard jets--
4. Outboard jet motor installers—
5. Trouble shooters—Installation and or operational issues
6. Sales personal of outboard jet motors and outboard jet boat packages.
7. Especially people who works on their own Jet boat set ups—
8. And of course for anyone just wanting to know more about
outboard jets installations and the proper design of boats

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664175884

Edward West

Edward West is a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph and a features editor for The Catholic Herald. He is a social historian with interest in broad trends in British identity and society.

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Rev. date: 06/09/2021

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Contents

This Guide Book Summary

About the Author

Dedication

Disclaimer

Introduction

Opening Statements

Chapter I Understanding Outboard Jets

I.-1. Why Outboard Jets

I.-2. How Outboard Jets Pumps Work

Chapter II How to Determine the Best Installation for the Usage

II.-1. Procedural Steps in Determining the Best Installation

Chapter III Step by Step Jet Installation Proceedings

III.-1. Installation (Placement) of the Jet below the Bottom of the Boat

III.-2. Installation of the Jet Above the Bottom of the Boat-

III.-3. Installation of the Jet, Part Above, Part Below the Bottom of The Boat

Chapter IV Boat Bottom Designs

Chapter V Outboard Jet Tunnels

V.-1. Opening Statements

V.-2. What is an outboard Jet boat Tunnel?

V.-3. What is their purpose?

V.-4. How do they work.

V.-5. Tunnel designs

V.-6. A Typical 2 ½ Tunnel –In a 5-degree Dead Rise, V" Bottom Boat

V.-7. A Typical 2 ½ Tunnel-In a 5-degree dead Rise, V" Bottom Boat Using Ribs as Part of the tunnel

V.-8. A 1 ½" (Lessor Height) Tunnel-In a Flat bottom Boat—Using Ribs as part of the Tunnel

V.-9. How to install a tunnel

V.-10. What should the thickness of the metal be in a tunnel?

V.-11. Open Questions

V.-12. Additional Information about tunnels

Chapter VI The Art of Handling and Controlling Water to the Jet Intake

VI.-1. How Water Flows Into and Through the Jet Intake

VI.-2. Pertinent Criteria of Water and Air

VI.-3. Must provide a Complete Water Seal to the Jet Intake

VI.-4. How to Guide and control Water to the Jet Intake

VI.-5. The Three Design Areas for Guiding and Controlling Water

VI.-6. What Water Baffles and Turning Vanes are and How to Use Them.

Chapter VII Figuring How Deep a Boat will set in water

Chapter VIII Most Common Operating Problems

VIII.-1. Causes and Remedies of Common Operating Problems

Chapter IX Analyzing Poor Performance in Existing Installations

IX.-1. Answers to the Common Performance Questions

Chapter X Outboard Jet Motor HP Per Gross Weight of Boats

Chapter XI Helpful Information for Outboard Jet Boaters

Chapter XII Five (5) Mechanical Items, How they Work and Improve Performance

Chapter XIII Outboard Jet Pump Maintenance and Servicing

XIII.-1. Jet Drive maintenance and Servicing

XIII.-2. Three (3) Mechanical Services to Help Keep the Jet Pump Operating properly and efficiently

Chapter XIV Four (4) Common Outboard Jet/Boat set-ups

Chapter XV Closing Statement

Chapter XVI

A Boat Remolded to This Guide Book’s Criteria

Chapter XVII Jet Drive Intake Weed Remover

How Outboard

Jets Work

How to determine

The best Installation

For your usage

Analyzing

Poor performance

In Existing Installations.

The Art Of

Handling and Controlling

Water to the Jet Intake

For Top Performances

This Guide Book Summary

This Guide Book contains much information, from where and how to install outboard Jet motors, engineering design details of tunnels, boat bottom designs, detail explanations as to how jet pumps work, to answering common operational and performance questions and much, much more.

It is also set up to be used as a reference guide for continuous use when providing these services to outboard jet boat set ups. With all this extensive general and specific detail information, the following people will benefit from reading and using this guide.

1. People looking to buy a Jet boat setup—

2. New jet boat owners—

3. Long time owners/ operators of outboard jets--

4. Outboard jet motor installers—

5. Trouble shooters—Installation and or operational issues

6. Sales personal of outboard jet motors and outboard jet boat packages.

7. Especially people who works on their own Jet boat set ups—

8. And of course for anyone just wanting to know more about outboard jets installations and the proper design of boats

Edward West

West Engineering

About the Author

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Edward West was born in 1942 on a river’s edge in central Iowa on the Des Moines River. Here he spent his childhood and teenage years playing and just being in and on the river. He got his first fishing boat at about 10 years old by him and his father digging it out of the mud after a river flood. He spent his growing up years with this boat. This started his life’s long love for the water and boating. It has only grown with each passing year.

Most of his professional life he was employed by a Large Pharmaceutical Company. He started as a maintenance worker but quickly started receiving promotions until he retired from them as a Director of Engineering. He retired from them early in life and formed West Engineering, Corp. He employed 2 Engineers and a Secretary and continued working for the same Pharmaceutical Company for many more years until he retired completely.

Because of his professional life that revolved around Engineering, set the stage for going overboard in knowing and understand the Engineering side of every aspect of boats and motors. He has always been avid about learning (reading as well as hands on experimenting) and recording every little thing and would review it over and over through the years. Once he learnt something, he keeps it so he could use it always.

He has owned and operated many boats. This includes his first fishing boat, mentioned above, to a house boat that he, his wife Julie and their family enjoyed for over 20 years. He and his wife have owned to many boats to list here but by far the boat dearest to his heart was the 17 -foot all welded aluminum boat with a 115/80 outboard jet motor in which he and his wife used and enjoyed extensively for 18 years. He could not have boated as he and his wife have except, she is just as much of an avid boater as he is.

He got overwhelming interested in outboard jets some 35 years ago. His first experience was buying an outboard jet pump unit and putting it on an prop motor. Ever since then he has been researching and hands on experimenting to learn and understand the ultimate Installation and operation of outboard jets. It has taken him many, many years to learn and record all the information that is in this one single Guide Book.

After putting this book together, at 78 years of age, he decided to rebuild and remodel a boat per the engineering details in this book. He did just that. This was a 2-year project but, since it operates most satisfactory is proof of the validity of this Guide Book. Now we can say he not only talks the talk but walks the walk. See a few pictures and a short remodeling summery of this boat is in the back of this guide.

Dedication

To every person that is now or that ever will operate an outboard jet boat in shallow water and has a smile on their face and a warm feeling in their heart because it is operating and performing just the way they want it to. Also, to my wife, Julie, who has stood by me with unbelievable patients and understanding thought out the years while I was spending countless hours with boats, working on them, reading manuals and engineering books about them, experimenting with them and then sitting with me listening to me telling her of the great things I just learnt and accomplished. And recently waiting through the countless hours I have spent putting this book together, and performing a major remolding of a boat in using the designs and information from this book (a 2 year project). I say this most sincerely: "Without Her Understanding, Support and Above All -Patients," this could never have happened.

Happy Outboard Jet Boating Everyone

Disclaimer

If anyone believes that any of the contents in this Guide Book may imply there is a difference in any operational data, instructions, and especially any operational safety recommendation from any Boat Manufacture, or any Jet Motor Manufacture, be sure and follow their guidance, recommendations and instructions.

Introduction

Who is this guide book for? Who will benefit from it?

1. People looking to buy a Jet boat setup—

2. New jet boat owners—

3. Long time owners/ operators of outboard jets--

4. Outboard jet motor installers—

5. Trouble shooters—Installation and or operational issues

6. Sales personal of outboard jet motors and outboard jet boat packages.

7. Especially people who works on their own Jet boat set ups—

8. And of course for anyone just wanting to know more about outboard jets motors and their installations.

Benefits each will receive from this guide book.

1. People looking to buy a Jet boat setup—

a. The more they understand how the jet motor works and the proper installation for the way they will use it, (their usage) before buying a boat, will help them buy the best jet boat set-up in the first place.

2. New jet boat owners—

a. Will provide proper operation information so they will get the best from their jet boat set up.

3. Long time owners/ operators of outboard jet boat set ups. —

a. When issues appear, what might be causing the issue and a possible solution.

4. Outboard jet motor installers—

a. Whether they are installing their own motor or employed as a service Technician.

b. This would include boat builders who install jet motors on their boats to sell as a package. This would include upgrading a jet motor for a customer for many reasons as upgrading to a newer motor, as replacing with a higher HP motor and more.

c. This would (for sure) include anyone replacing a propeller motor with a jet motor on any boat. This will then aid all