Drag boats. Top fuel work but for water.

[GrindIntoSecond]

1,000 foot, 3.1s@260mph+
Perspective: The world record for the fastest boat is 317mph in a jet-powered Australian hydroplane.

[Vondon302]

@grindintosecond Screw that shit. Insanity.
Eddie Hill quit nitro boat racing to go top fuel dragster because the boats were just so dangerous. I hope it's safer nowadays but 270 on water has got to be on the ragged edge of physics.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-09-sp-909-story.html

[RamblinRover]

@grindintosecond Given at those speeds it's no longer really "floating" and more "staying aloft above the water on ground effect and from angular thrust", at what point is it really a "ground-propelled ekranoplan" and not a "boat"?

[MontegoMan562]

@grindintosecond jesus those things are fucking nuts.

I LOVE going fast on the water on our old jet skis, but I've been on a modern supercharged seadoo that was still pulling strong at 70mph and I decided to back off because I wasn't sure I could hold on, that was more than fast enough lol

[HFV]

@grindintosecond at what point does it stop being a boat and become a low flying plane?

[Taylor Martin]

@grindintosecond Wait wait wait... these things do 0-200 in under 3 seconds... Jesus Harold Christ that's ridiculous!

[BicycleBuck]

@grindintosecond
That’s amazing! I remember seeing them once on Lake Overholser (near Okc) when my grandfather took me over there to go fishing. He was upset that we couldn’t go fishing, but I had a great time watching a couple of the boats make runs! I had no idea they were that fast.