My boat has a hand throttle and runs around mid 60's. Is the main reason for the foot throttle  for faster boats to keep 2 hands on the wheel? At what speeds do you guys feel this is necessary? Sorry for the newbie question Brian.

I dunno, I would think the whole apparatus was developed to attract the hot rodders in the 70's when hot rodding on the street wasn't cool anymore all of a sudden (LEO and new law passment).

Just My opinion, but the rise of the Jet Boat seems to exactly coincide with the death of the Muscle Car.

Personally, I wouldn't be without a foot throttle. Clean, simple, and very ergonomic and intuitive with all of us!

Ray

Hand throttle is great for a rental boat.  You don't have to worry about not being comfortable with the pedal location because of the non-adjustable seating.  It fits everybody.   


Does anyone know where I can rent a blown flatty with a hand throttle? 

i had a hand throttle in my 18 spectra! it sucked! i over reved it twice! and it all could have been avoided if i had a foot throttle!

foot jobs only for me

went from a hand job to a foot......
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ive driven alot of tournament boats and outboards, they have hand throttles. outboard is easy because the slow speed turning is very responsive. tournament boats are similar to jets where they dont really turn unless you gas it. i like the foot throttle because it gives you 2 hands to spin the wheel and monitor fwd/rev while independently giving it gas. makes it really easy to trailer and dock/ beach in crowded areas.

Thanks for the input guys. Looks like I am putting a foot throttle in. Another newbie question I still leave the hand throttle in place to use for forward and reverse right?

The way mine worked was I disconected the throttle cable from the lever and ran it to the new foot pedal.
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