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Scarab boats were popularly featured in the 1980s TV series Miami Vice. As of the second season of the series, the main character Sonny Crockett piloted a Wellcraft 38 Scarab KV. [ 3 ] In Riptide , the counterpart to the eponymous boat where the detectives work is the Ebb Tide, a 38' Scarab powered by KAAMA Power Systems. [ 4 ]
The Wellcraft Scarab 38 KVs were a 28-hued, twin 440-hp boat that sold for $130,000 in 1986. [4] As a result of the publicity the show gave Wellcraft, the company received "an onslaught of orders", increasing sales by 21 percent in one year. [4] In appreciation, Wellcraft gave Don Johnson an exact duplicate of the boat featured on the show. [4]
Bricktown Drag Boat Circuit, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States Jay Wallace 2006/05/06 Event: National Jet Boat Association May Shootout race Lake Ming, near Bakersfield, California Charlie Hodsdon 2006/10/15 Lake Ming, near Bakersfield, California "White Thunder" River Races jet boat Lloyd Burns 2007/04/21 Kentucky Drag Boat Association
Scarab (boat), a brand of high performance power boats and fishing boats; Scarab (rover), a 2010 robotic lunar rover prototype; Scammell Scarab, a British 3-wheeled articulated lorry tractor unit produced 1948-1967; Fiberfab Scarab STM (Sport Transport Module), an American 3-wheeled car; Stout Scarab, a 1930–1940s American minivan
A Class 1 race-boat has twin inboard 1100hp engines and can reach speeds in excess of 257 km/h (160 mph). All boats are limited by a minimum weight of 4950 kg. The sport of powerboat racing has undergone unprecedented changes since the earliest recorded race in 1887 in Nice, France, organized by the Paris Sailing Club.
A fishing charter boat captain who rescued two parachuting Navy pilots after witnessing their unmanned fighter jet plummet into San Diego Bay described what he saw as something from a movie.. The ...
Margaret spectated jet boat Marathons which Pat competed in, but wanted to see more of the race, suggesting a smaller, more condensed track. Events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat , but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s, permanent ...
US Navy SWCCs train with a modified go-fast boat during a training exercise in Mississippi. A typical go-fast is laid-up using a combination of fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fibre, using a deep "V" style offshore racing hull ranging from 6.1 to 15.2 metres (20 to 50 ft) long, narrow in beam, and equipped with two or more powerful engines, often totalling more than 750 kilowatts (1,000 hp).