Dear Snake river: while I have also heard of cavitation problems with fabricated intakes including the ones first marketed? I built my boat in 2011. We at River Wild fabricated mine and I have been running it ever since with NO again NO
cavitation problems unless I grounded the boat and ingested rocks bending the impeller or when I caved in the intake grate last year running the Clackamas at very low water.
I remember meeting Mark in 2011 on the Snake at the Sandy beach above Pittsburg he looked my boat over and was quite interested in it as he was trying to negotiate the rotax motors and there had been problems for others to make the motor run to its potential ? using other pumps that were not suitable with the high RPM. I enjoyed our meeting.
At the time we had been running them with good success for six months or so. I used all the boat bucket parts that interchange with my year and are used today to my knowledge. way better reverse.
The boat is great on any river in all kinds of white water and am quite happy with the Rotax product wide open throttle on the 215 is 16 gph mine runs up and free at 4500 rpm sips the fuel 16' 5' .250 bottom light open boat
After extensive testing and different impellers pitched at Skat Trac at my request. I now run a three blade straight pitch great out of the hole great in whitewater and a little less on the top end. I still am just below 50 mph
I am glad to see the package available. they are reliable hard running and economical I will be building a new boat

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