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KwikJet X
Four years of hull iterations, distilled into one.
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The boat with nothing underneath it.
If you have only ever run propeller boats, a jetboat feels wrong for about ten seconds — and then it makes every other boat feel fragile.
How it works
What is a jetboat?
No propeller sticking out. No rudder. The pump sits inside the hull, swallows water through the bottom and throws it out the back — so there is almost nothing left to break.
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- 1 Intake Water is rammed in through a slot flush with the bottom of the hull. Nothing protrudes, so there is nothing to snag or snap off.
- 2 Impeller Driven straight off the motor. The flow divides around the hub and the blades screw it along the housing — no gearbox, no lag between trigger and thrust.
- 3 Stator Fixed vanes take the swirl back out as the two paths rejoin, turning it into straight-line pressure instead of wasted rotation.
- 4 Steering nozzle The nozzle squeezes that pressure into a high-velocity jet, and the whole thing swivels. Aim the nozzle and you aim the thrust — which is why a jetboat turns so much harder than a rudder boat.
- 5 Reversing bucket Newton’s third law does the rest: the jet goes backwards, the boat goes forwards. Drop the bucket into that jet and it goes backwards instead.
Why it matters
What changes when the drive moves inside
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Run anywhere
The pump sits inside the hull, so there is nothing to shear off on a rock or wrap in weed. Shallows, gravel, river mouths — you stop planning routes around your driveline.
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Turns that surprise you
A rudder asks the water to push the back of the boat around. A steering nozzle points the entire thrust wherever you aim it, so the boat changes direction far harder and far sooner.
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No delay
Direct drive between motor and impeller. The thrust arrives at the same moment as the trigger — which is most of the reason it is addictive.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The jet goes backwards; the boat goes forwards. That is the whole trick.
Newton’s third law, doing the heavy lifting since 1687
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