| DRIVING IMPRESSIONS
Picture a perfect
day at the lake; a slight breeze yet the water is calm; there isn’t a sound to be heard. Our test session started
like a day of Martha Stewart gardening until we yanked the pull-start
on our Miss Bud Dynamite .15 engine and the crackle from the pipe sounded
like Ricky Carmichael ripping through a motocross dirt track. See you
later Martha, it ’s time for some loud and wild water action.
I grabbed the JR
Python and headed to the waterside. Bob was the assistant for the day
and walked from the picnic
table to the water’s edge with the boat
idling. He stepped closer to the wet and with a quick swing launched the boat
into the water while I pulled full throttle. The boat met the water at just
the right angle and was instantly on plane, roosting water high up
into the air.
I gave the rudder a quick trim to straighten it out and was ready to start
turning laps.
You’d think a boat that is only meant to turn right might get a bit, well,
boring…not so with the Miss Bud. The high speed of the boat puts it on
top of the water with very little hull surface actually touching the liquid.
This style of running equates to a little instability and a lot of driving,
and the driving was a ton of fun. I throttled across the pond lap after lap,
with
constant steering input to keep the boat in check and going as fast as possible.
Bob wanted in on
the action, but I just sent him off to get the radar gun to clock the
Hydro’s speed. As I swung the boat by the shore and took off,
Bob had the Bud in sight and the trigger pulled on the radar gun. By the time
I swung the boat away from debris on the other side of our small test pond, the
Miss Budweiser hit a top speed of 26.4 mph and we think there may be a little
more left in her.
CONCLUSION
When you pull the
Miss Bud boat from the box you’re instantly greeted
with a boat pretty enough to be a top quality static
model, but that’s
not what this rig is about. The Pro Boat Miss Bud is
built to withstand high-speed water action and that’s exactly
what it gives you.
We found the boat
to be fast, fun and very reliable. Just give the boat a good launch and
it will instantly get up
on plane and hit speeds that send water
roosting high into the air. This boat is just too cool.
Items Used:
Dynamite
Blue Thunder Race Fuel
—DYN2380 $12.99 |
Like
a full-scale boat, the Miss Bud has a turn fin on the right side of the boat.
Hydros are right turn only and the turn fin helps keep the boat in the water
during 
