Offshore power boat racing takes place in the ocean and is done using large specially designed boats with high pitch props that race pretty much at full speed at all times during the race if it is a point to point race over distances of maybe just a few miles or many hundreds of miles. They do have closed circuit coarses that are mostly long stretches of staight line racing with just a few turns to complete the circuit.
Since these races are over long distances quick take offs are not very important. The highest top speed over the long hull and the best operated boats win races.
Very High Pitch Props
The boat propellers used are very high pitched so it takes them a long time to get going. Once they do hook up well in the water and top speed is attained, the fastest boats can do 250 miles per hour. That can be a pretty wild ride in a sometimes not so calm ocean.
There are many classes of competitive boats ranging from small single driver and single engine boats all the way up to boats well over 45 feet in length and with 3 or 4 engines and 3 or 4 people in the cockpit, such as a driver, a throttle person who handles the speed of the the boat, a navigater if it is a long race and maybe an engineer or mechanic to handle the mechanics of the boat if problems occur.
These boats are extemely expensive to build and to maintain. Even just one boat prop can cost thousands because they can be custom made and then fine tuned for best performance.
At Dan’s Discount Boat Propellers we offer hundreds of great performing high pitch props at the lowest prices for all modern name brand engines.
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