WarrenRhyner

This is the downstream portion of the ride. We had a mild intake grate plugging problem. Then saw another bald eagle nest. I topped the boat out towards the end. Not too shabby.

It was a good but cold ride on the river. We saw 3 Bald Eagles and found 2 nests. I will come back with a camera at some point when it is warmer.

I machine the pump nozzle so that I can install removable inserts to tune the pump for bottom end or top speed.

I heavily edited the video to just maneuvering. Much better to watch.

This is the downstream leg of the previous video. For some reason, it seems to be a bit more active (less stopping and talking :P). The batteries die on both cameras, but there is still quite a bit of split screen with the front and rear cameras and ends with just the rear camera. I am on the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River in Bedford County, PA. It was a good day.

I headed upstream on the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River in Bedford County, PA. This part of the trip is from Juniata Crossing almost to Mile Level. My home built mini jet boat worked like a champ. The previous video had some sound issues which have been fixed in this video.

Two deer crossing the river as I was going upstream in my mini jet boat.

A nice New Years Day boat ride. Air temp was about 50F. Water temp probably about 40F. The sun was out and the mini jet boat was working flawlessly except for a leaf clogged intake once. My newly made intake rake took care of that in short order. I talked with a few nice folks along the way and thoroughly enjoyed the day.

The boat took on some damage from rocks on my trip on the Little Juniata River in Huntingdon County, PA. Otherwise it was a nice trip. I've cut out a lot to keep the action level higher. There was some high speed testing early on (54.1mph top speed on the Garmin GPS). Later, I stopped and talked to Farmer Tim along the Frankstown Branch. FF to 9:30 for the damaging bits. Overall the boat had 3 dents in the bottom. The result was a peculiar attitude in the water that resulted in an unusual spray pattern from under the port bow when going straight and lots of water coming over the port bow during hard turns to port. I was worried that the boat might be taking on water, but there was no cause for worry. Just some bent 1/4" aluminum to be pounded out.

In this video we head downstream from Raystown Dam to The Point. From there back upstream to the boat ramp in Smithfield, PA. The end to a good trip.

From "The Point" at the confluence of the Raystown and Frankstown branches of the Juniata River to Raystown Dam. Huntingdon County, PA.

The planned trip was to put the boat in at Huntingdon, PA. From there head upstream to the decomissioned Petersburg Dam. We had to turn around just a little short. Then we headed downstream and turned off of the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River and went upstream to Raystown Dam. Very cool trip.

Cut down version of my first river trip on the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. Edited to include most of the rock impacts the boot took.

I took a buddy for the boat's first 2 man river trip. It was a blast. We somehow managed to dodge the rain and I only lost my hat once :)

A quick rundown of the small amount of damage resulting from many rock strikes from my first real river trip of approx 25 miles round trip. I am pleased.

I saw my first ever Bald Eagle in the wild at approx the 2:00 mark. Really awesome. After that, lots and lots of rock strikes...no damage though. A later video will show the bottom of the boat. Not bad for some hard hits.

Last video going upstream on the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. It gets increasingly difficult to navigate the shallow sections. Sun glare is a factor in addition to water depth.

More Frankstown Branch of the Juniata in Huntingdon County, PA. I get stuck and smack the camera while learning how to read the water.

2nd video in Icebreaker series. My first couple of challenges in shallow riffles. Also, spelling seems to escape me when captioning video...

I was surprised to find ice at the mouth of Shavers Creek. Not a problem for the rock resistant mini jet.

Experimenting with the jet nozzle up and down trim control to see how it changes how the boat handles. Location: Curwensville Lake, Clearfield County, PA