Ski Race Boats
Twin turbochaged ski race boats and turbo systems built in our workshop for Customers.
Is a 18’6″ shallow vee Stevens hull powered by a 460 cubic inch Big Block Chev, with twin turbochargers, intercooled and electronic fuel injection.
The engine produces 1150hp at 6200rpm and drives via a Vee dive with a 70% step up to a 11 1/4″ X 15″ pitch two blade prop. The boat carries 55 gallons of aviation fuel, weights 3/4 tone and has a Top speed of 132 mph.
Achievements:
- 1st place 1992 Bakers Blitz.
- 1st place 1993 Bakers Blitz.
- 1st place 1993 Southern 80 Ski Race
- 1st place 1994 Sydney Bridge to Bridge one up ski race. And previous record holder.(68 miles in 39 min 14 seconds, at an average speed of 104mph.)
- 1st place 1994 Bakers Blitz.
- 1st place 1995 Bakers Blitz.
- 1st place 1996 Bakers Blitz.
- 1st place 1996 Southern 80 Ski Race.
Is a 21′ Natwell deep vee hull powered by a 496 cubic inch Big Block Chev, with twin turbochargers, intercooled and electronic fuel injection. The engine produces 1350hp at 6200rpm and drives via a Vee dive with a 62% step up to a 10 1/2″ X 16″ pitch two blade prop.
The boat carries 90 gallons of aviation fuel, weights 1 3/4 tone and has a Top speed of 118mph. Legless is used for Ski racing in Australia in ocean and river racing. The name was given to the boat because this type of hull normally uses a Inboard-Outboard type drive (“stern drive or Leg”) this why it is called Legless.
Achievements:
- 1st place 1993 Cairns to Green Island Ski Race.
- 1st place 1994 Botany Bay International
- 1st place 1994 Fitsroy Island Iron man.
- 1st place 1995 Cairns to Green Island Ski Race, in record time.
- 1st place 1995 Cairns to Port Douglas Ski Race, and current record holder.
- Selected for Australian team at 1995 world titles Belgium
- 1st place 1996 Australian open mens.
- 1st place 1996 Gold Coast Classic
- 1st place 1996 Fitsroy Iron Man Ski Race.
- 1st place 1997 King of the Fitsroy Ski Race.
- 1st place 1997 Grand Prix Series.
- 1st place 1998 Grafton bridge to bridge, under 16 boys, seven minutes under previous record.
- 1st place 1998 Sydney bridge to bridge, under 16 boys, five minutes under previous record.
21′ Natwell deep-vee hull powered by a 496 cubic inch Big Block Chev, with twin turbochargers, twin intercoolers and electronic fuel injection.
The engine produces 1150hp at 6000rpm and drives via a Mercruiser #3 Stern Drive with 1.33 ratio and a 14 X 26″ pitch four blade prop. The boat carries 90 gallons of aviation fuel, weights 1 3/4 tone and has a Top speed of 115mph.
Achievements:
- Australian Team Boat 1991 World Titles (Darwin. Australia)
- Australian Team Boat 1993 World Titles (Vichi. France)
- Australian Team Boat 1995 World Titles (Antwerp. Belgium)
- 2nd outright Sydney Bridge to Bridge 1995
Is a 21′ Natwell deep vee hull powered by a 454 cubic inch Big Block Chev, with twin turbochargers, intercooled and electronic fuel injection.
The engine produces 1050hp at 6200 rpm and drives via a Vee dive with a 62% step up to a 11 1/4″ X 15″ pitch two blade prop. The boat carries 80 gallons of aviation fuel, weights 1 tone and has a Top speed of 115mph.
Achievements:
- 1st place 1995 King of the River and current record holder.
- 1st place 1995 Fitsroy Iron Man and current record holder.
- 1st place 1995 Hinchenbrook Channel Ski Race and current record holder.
Is a 21′ Connelly it has a 496 CI big block Chev fitted with twin Garrett TA51 turbochargers, intecooler and Autronic SMC model fuel injection.
The engine produces 1350 HP at 6500 RPM with 15 psi boost. Top speed is 125+ MPH. The boat is the current world champion ski race boat after winning the 1999 world titles in Spain while towing Steven Robertson.
We were approached by the owners of Firebird in 1997 after failing to qualify for the 1997 world title selections for the Australian team, due to consistent reliability problems. They were selected as reserve boat for the Australian team. As time was limited due to the 1997 World titles been only months away we replaced the old fuel injection with Autronic and fitted two TO4S/TA45 turbochargers and few other changes. The boat was reliable after this and went on to finish second in the 1997 world tiles.
For the 1999 world titles we changed manifolds, intercooler, ignition, cylinder heads and turbochargers to TA51 models. The boat ran the selection races without any problems and was selected as the number one team boat for Australia.
- In Spain at the 1999 world titles the boat went on to win the title.
- 7th of May 2000: Firebird wins the one-up Bridge to Bridge ski race in record time (37.06 minutes), taking 1 minute 30 seconds off the existing record. Average speed of 110 mph.
- Winner 1999, 2000 and 2001 Australian titles open mens ski race.
- Winner of the 2001 world ski racing titles USA October 2001.
- Selected No1 team boat for 2003 world ski racing titles USA October 2003.
This is a 21′ Hallett fitted with a 496 CI big block Chev engine. The engine has twin TO4S/TA45 turbochargers, intercooler and Autronic SMC model fuel injection. The engine produces 1000 HP at 6000 RPM and the boat has a top speed of 105 MPH.
The boat is very heavy and was designed for rough water racing in England. We became involved with this boat when it was at the 1997 world titles in Sydney Australia. The boat was shipped from England to Australia only to have the engine fail while testing before the world tittles started. They borrowed a engine from another competitor and we tuned the engine. The boat had no more problems and finished third in the world titles.
We were asked to maintain the engine setup. The engines are shipped to Australia for rebuilds and upgrading. At the 1999 world titles in Spain the boat was the number one boat for the English team and finish second outright.
Achivements
- Second place 1999 world titles, Spain.
- Winner 2000 British National inshore offshore ski race championship.
- Winner 2000-2001 European National ski race championship.
- 1st place Open Mens Diamond Race 2000 Belgium.
- 1st place Open Womans Diamond Race 2000 Belgium.
- 1st place 2000 Giro Del Laro ski race, lake Como Italy.
