What's the fastest you have ever gone on the water?

Right now the fastest I have ever gone is a little less than 50 mph. :smt015 How about you............anyone been over 100mph......150 mph..........200 mph?:wow::wow:

I'll be the first to admit that I love go-fast boats even though I have never owned one or even ridden on one. (I would love to own one but it has something to do with practicality........and money:smt043).

Just the same if I ever get the opportunity I want to at least ride on one that goes about 100 mph sometime before I die. I saw a guy with a black Cigarette a few weeks ago and my jaw just dropped because you hardly ever see boats like that on our little lake but that's exactly what I want to ride on with the throttles pinned to the firewall as the three big blocks scream right along thru open exhausts.
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I've never broken into 3 digits. Been awful close, but no cigar. :smt089

70 mph on a Champion bass boat. Too fast for me. I love to see and hear the cigeratt boats on lake Murray. I,ll sit around the hangout's just to hear them crank up thos BIG BLOCKS. I've thought about running my exhaust out the sides, just to hear the fuss. But the genny, water tank, and batterys are in the way. The big problem is the ADMIRAL, she said H$$$$$$ No. LOL

86 mph in a Fountain Lightning with twin supercharged Mercruisers. I was in the back seat, holding on for dear life Quite a ride, though and would love to do it again.

63mph on a Sea Doo..... 60+mph with no brakes..... plenty fast fo me!

About 90 MPH in a Cigarette boat, years ago. The guy I knew back then had the engines bored and stroked. On this particular day, we actually blew the starboard engine while puttering along for some reason. When we would take it out on the water (in Louisiana on the Ouachita river), we would would first have to go out to the airport and fill a trailered fuel tank (think it was about 300 gallons) with high octane av-gas, then park it at the launch ramp parking lot. Why, because we would have to come back and re-fuel during the course of the day at some point.

Kind of ridiculous in hind-site; however, we were all in our 20's and fuel was cheap back then.

105mph on what I guess was a cigarette boat. It had no seats - just two rows of standing area 3 men wide. There were padded bolsters on your belly and back to hold you snug. The driver handled the wheel, and a throttle man handled the throttle levers. You couldn't talk, only give hand signals. I rode in the front to the right of the wheelman. I don't want my life in someone else's hands at that speed again unless he/she's an airline pilot... This guy was a rich CEO and was nuts. He took us over the wake of a Lake Ontario freighter going 90. Yikes.

I had a Formula 272 LS in the '80s with twin EFI 320 Small Block Chevy's on Bravos. It would hold 73~75 MPH "chine walking" in 2~4 seas and would cruise 55~60. It was no big deal on a good day to run from Ft. Lauderdale to Bimini in less than an hour. There were T-Shirts that me and my boating friends had labled "Bimini for Lunch Bunch. We could leave Ft. Lauderdale at 10:30, run to Bimini, have a Grouper sandwich and a couple of beers and be back in 'lauderdale by 2:30 or 3:00. in the mid/late '80s when you had a boat like this you didn't have to worry about clearing US Customs...they would meet you about 2 miles out and tour your boat to make sure you were'nt trying to import any agricultural products that were measured in Kilos.:thumbsup: That's the fastest boat I ever owned.


A kid that grew up next to me in Ft. Lauderdale ended up going to the Karl Kiekhieffer school of Marine Propulsion in Ft. Pierce and ended up as throttle man for Team Apache in the late '80s. He became the service manager for Everglades Marine on the 15th street canal in Ft. Lauderdale. At that time Everglades was a Formula, Cigarette and Apache dealer. I stoped in one day to check in on him and he had just done a complete service on a fairly new 38' Cigarette Top Gun. He asked me to go along on a shake down run (no arm twisting required) and put me at the helm. We idled out of the 15th street canal and into the ICW. We headed south beneath the old 17th St bridge and out through Port Everglades. Once I cleared the "no wake" zone I put her up on a plane and leveled out at a seemingly effortless 60 MPH. I cleared the jetties and turned north and he told me to run up to Hillsboro Inlet and turn around. This was a nice enough February day with the seas at 2~4 as a head sea for us off of the starboard bow (NE). I set the K Planes with a bit of bow down and nudged the throttles up past 4300~4400 RPM and the Cigarette lunged up to just over 70 to about 75. At that point the wheel becomes some thing to hold on to and you "fly" the boat with the tabs. We flew past the Pompano pier and I could see the light house approaching quickly. I nailed the throttles and the 'Gun jumped to about 80 and I held her there for about 30 seconds and started backing down for the turn. I made the 180 running about 50 and started heading back south when he gave me the "cut it" signal. We shut down and he opened the hatches, grabed a rachet and socket and pulled random plugs on both engines. "running a little lean" he said after looking at the plug tips thru a jewelers loop. "Hand me that tool box in the cabin" which I did. He proceeded to pull both front and rear fuel bowls on both engines and changed the primary and secondary jets. He put new bowl gaskets on the Holley 850 Double Pumpers, re attached the bowls, soaked up any spilled gasoline with some disposable diapers and we started both engines. We set the float levels (you do that externally with a Holley) and he said "Let me show yow how to drive this thing".


We came out of the hole and were on a plane at 60~65 in a few seconds and he layed into it...trimming drives and planes. All we had in those days were Pitot Blade speedometers but on that afternoon headed south in that 38' Cigarette Top Gun with twin 502 Mercruiser Competition Magnums on No.2 Mercruiser Speed Master Drives, I saw an indicated 95+ MPH. We ran that speed all the way back to Port Everglades and idled back to the marina thru the port. That was and is the fastest I have ever been on a boat. I also remember when we left the tanks were full and we filled back up when we got back. My memory is that we blew out about 100 gallons on that run!!

The fastest I've ever done was 71mph and that was on 2001 Yamaha waverunner which I still have it. It hasn't reach 70 ever again, I've been around 66mph on smooth river.

It happens on smooth river with the tide and wind. I would never go that fast in rough water, I usually average 35-40mph. My 250DA would go about 22mph.

Does a single Cypress Gardens El Diablo water ski count? The speedometer read 60 plus mph before I lost my nerve. The boat was a direct drive no neutral flat bottom drag boat with a huge engine. When the motor started you went forward with no other options. In 1974 it was the fastest boat in our area. When you weigh 110 pounds every little ripple launches you out of the water. Those same ripples are telegraphed up your legs like a hammer hitting a telephone pole.

60 or so on a yamaha 1200cc waverunner, 70 in a buddies Nordic go-fast. I would rather cruise @ 25 and sip a beer with the tunes jammin in the background.

berth control said:

60 or so on a yamaha 1200cc waverunner, 70 in a buddies Nordic go-fast. I would rather cruise @ 25 and sip a beer with the tunes jammin in the background.

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I second that!:smt038

I have now a 22 scarab with a 6.2mpi, (65mph) i had a 20' action with a 2.5 offshore merc( 87mph) and a 25 skater with twin 2.5 offshore mercs( 104 mph) the action was the scariest ride!! you have to hold on

52 mph with my current boat. Probably the fastest 2452 out there due to the upgraded 6.2 HO engine... I know, no comparison to all the "go fasts" out there but for a "sleeper", she'll do circles around most boats my size... and definitely my model boat...

112 mph in a 18ft stretched Motion with 2.4 bridgeport motor, and blueprinted hull. The boat had more but I was to scared to get it all! I blew it over at 85mph and destroyed the boat. Luckly I only suffered minor bruises and bumps.
I would love to build another one, but not sure if I'd be able to run it all out! Age and fear is getting the best of me these days. lol.

Oh, if you wanna check out some fast outboards, check out "scream and fly.com"

flflatrate said:

I have now a 22 scarab with a 6.2mpi, (65mph) i had a 20' action with a 2.5 offshore merc( 87mph) and a 25 skater with twin 2.5 offshore mercs( 104 mph) the action was the scariest ride!! you have to hold on

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My Motion (old hydrostream mold), was alot like your Action. Very light boat. I think the hull weighed like 800lbs. And yes scary, chine walked bad, felt every gust of wind. Uncontrolled lifting of the right foot, as you know that is a bad thing!

34 kts today on my 330DA - twin 7.4 MPI V8, BW Velvet drives, 17x17 3BC props
70 on my Sea Doo RXT-X single 255 HP Rotax 4 stroke (see avatar) She can do better. Need to swap the impeller and intake grate to break 70. Supposedly, with the full set of mod she should do mid-70s. Maybe next year.
80 on a friend's 38 Sonic - twin 800 HP Marine Innovation 677 CID V8s EFI (no blower), Konrad sterndrives. He originally had the boat built with Maxx Machine Worx / IMCO drives, but kept breaking shafts and gears, so he switched to the Konrad's last year. He got new props for Christmas and had them lab spec'ed. So should do better this year.

Best regards,
Frank C

115 on Island Pond in northern Vermont in February. It was frozen and I was on a Polaris. Does this count?

katricol said:

115 on Island Pond in northern Vermont in February. It was frozen and I was on a Polaris. Does this count?

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Doesn't count :grin: But, I bet it was thrilling, none-the-less! I've never been on a snowmobile - can you see when you're going that fast? I mean, does the snow fly up in your face, or are you going so fast that it never really has time to get up to your face?

Had a crazy friend with a "need for speed" - got a 21' Regal Velocity with a Magnum 454. It got just over 70 MPH, but with this smaller boat it felt much faster. Scary how hard water feels at that speed.:smt101

The scary part was that he knew the boat's limits (owned it for 3 seasons), but I didn't know. When it started chine walking it got pretty hairy!

When he sold it for a cruiser the purchaser put a blower on it and got over 90MPH. Apparently he just about went out of control at that speed, lost his nerve and never took it over 70 after that.:smt009

When you try to talk at that speed, the wind just sucks the spit right out of your mouth if you're turned sideways. Make sure you're not behind a blabber mouth on a fast boat!:grin: