The Canyon Cadilac

[markh2000]

Thought I would share a few videos of one of my personal jet boats, custom built for me in 2009, specs:
Builder: HCM (Hells Canyon Marine) in Clarkston, WA.
29' long x 8' tapered bottom x 10' beam
Twin Marine Power 6 liter supercharged engines putting out 550HP each
Twin Hamilton 213 pumps
great boat for big white water!

Wild Sheep Rapids 2010: http://vimeo.com/4846312

Wild Sheep Rapids in Hells Canyon, Snake River 1/1/2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQoHdCOKQVI

Running Hells Gate Rapid on the Frazer River: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9VtWQeG060

[Chaps]

Neat boat! I guess the helm out on the nose is so you can see what is directly in front of you? (boulders) Is that stick steering?

[goatram]

Cool! Welcome. Glad you found us
Big Water there. I would think you need that HP to get throu that. 1000 HP Burn rate?

[wickedlester]

cool

[JETTYWOLF]

what does someone do if there happens to be a catastrophic "failure". That looked relatively (1st Youtube) calm. I've watched many of those video's and wondered what someone does when it's really nasty ride, and a failure occurs. IE: current, rocks and sheer canyon walls.

[goatram]

Hang on.
Failure in an Aluminum Boat. Not gonna happen. Bottom will dent not rupture. Read some of Kevin's posts. Flip it? Where your PFD. and take a wickedly cold bath.

[JETTYWOLF]

I was talking ZERO POWER. Not hull compromise.

It's not like me at my inlet on a gale force day with a 5 kt falling New moon tide, call SeaTow and pitch the anchor........AND HOPE LIKE HELL, IT STICKS, BEFORE I SLAM A 10 TON BOULDER.

That's the reason I ask. I can't get and stay on anchor sometimes on a regular tide and 15 kts of wind. Guess it's like going diving, huh.

NEVER EVER DIVE ALONE

[markh2000]

At 3200 RPM cruise, GPS will show approximately 34 MPH (depending on whether we are going up or down stream) and have a burn rate of around 8 gph for each engine. Jetty, these boats are tough and can survive a dead engine foat down the river if some one is on board helping to do a little paddling to keep it straight and get it to shore for a tie up, or in my case, remember I have two engines, I have never had both engines quit at the same time, and can easily come home on one motor. Albeit a much slower pace. The boat is stick steering, once you have this type of steering, you would not go back to a steering wheel.
I would post a bunch of pictures but the size requirement is prohibitive. It would be nice if the admin could increase our pic size to 1200 x 900 which is what many of our re-sizing programs re-size to.

Here is a post I made on the popular jet boating forum with lots of pictures: http://meanchicken.net/webmain/forum/vi ... 17&t=11108

[JETTYWOLF]

99% of people take photos and never ever look to see that thier camera is saving them at some unbelievable size......I know because people email pictures of fish caught and I open the pics and see a ear or a eye ball, because the pics so dang large.

Make photos the smallest in the camera (if intending to do posts on forums that pics eat up bandwidth fast) and then on Google, as in Google Chrome, theres about 15 different FREE photo editing "apps" I guess you'd call'em.

A few are really bad azz for being FREE. (I did the pic in my signiture via one of them and added in the stylistic features)

Run your "forum pics thru this Free stuff. And you'll do okay. Or you can always use a free thing like Photobucket, Google Picasa, etc. to store and create albums for SIZED RIGHT, normal person type photos.

IE: here's my Google Picasa Photo albums where I store thousands of charter pics, that I don't want filling my personal "documents".

https://picasaweb.google.com/114132152032097680291 - as an example.

[markh2000]

I have been using PIX-resizer for years and generally resize to 1200 x 960 this gives me a 240 to 340 Kb size picture that is easy to email even with many multiple photos at a time. And it does not come accross like the annoying tiny 50Kb size pictures that are to small to do anything with or view becuase they are so small. Most of the forums i have worked with have had the 1200 x 960 size limit.

[pjay9]

Tell me this..are you trying to get someplace to go fishing cause there's no other way to get there and the fish are bigger and badder OR just to play in the river rapids? Looks fun!

[welder]

Mark, go to your USER CONTROL PANEL up top and start a Photo Album, that album will take your pictures. Then its like using Photo Bucket but it's ALL IN HOUSE here on AAB.

[markh2000]

Pjay, we definitely like to play in the rapids, not may boats go up there and the fishing is great, rainbow trout, small mouth bass, steelhead in season and sturgeon to 10' long.
Lester, thanks for the photo album tip, i will try it.

Mark Heuett

[markh2000]

OK, I put 20 pictures from my new years day trip to Hells Canyon dam in my markh2000 personal album. Is their a way to link that album to this post?

[welder]

Like this...
Then click on the picture and it gets BIG.

Go back to you ALBUM and LEFT click on the picture you want .
Look up in your search bar and you will see this... h ttp://www.aluminumalloyboats.com/gallery/imag ... age_id=897
Get the photo id number at the end of the string , in this case for the above picture ....897
Now start a new post and where you are typing your post look at the TABS right above the text box .
Click on the one that says ALBUM , it will put this in the text box>>> [album] [/album]
Now remember those numbers 897 , put those numbers between the brackets like this WITHOUT THE SPACES [album] 8 9 7 [/album]
Hit the Preview button to see if you like it or want to add more then click on the Submit button when your happy.
Remember to LEFT CLICK on the picture after is posted and it will get BIG.

[welder]

Now after making an Album you and the other members can click on YOUR name or anyone elses to get to you albums.

Click on someones name and look for this>>>>
Then click on Show personal Album of __________



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