Our local shops charge 100 an hr plus parts.  I'm not very willing to push a boat.

Here ya go Traveler a jetboat built for fishermen, I want one of these  http://www.riverpro-boats.com/

 

I think that could work very nicely on the Potomac River and it's trib's.    Years ago someone had a jetboat on the river that, if memory servers, looked like a Tracker; did they make a jetboat at one time??

Tracker did make a jet boat, but the hull wasn't tough enough. I would like to have one of the River-pros for the New and Greenbrier rivers. They make hulls that are up to the abuse that those rivers would dish out.

I could do the upper as well as the middle Potomac; but If I can't afford one, I'd at least like to take the ride that Slonezp posted

Stealthy it ain't.

iv taken my tracker into some nasty stuff. Tore up the lower unit, stuck on a sand bar and had to get out and push it about 75 yds, 4 trashed props, run in with a trailer, etc. But my Ranger doesn't get pushed to the limit, other than rough water. My buddy wanted to work a rock bluff wall a few weeks ago. He kept telling me "get within a foot of the rock wall" as 1 footers were smashing into the wall. I would have done it in my Tracker, but no way that was happening in the Ranger. Its a different ball game when fixing the Ranger compared to the Tracker.

I routinely take my boat into slews in the river that are only a foot deep in most places by trimming my motor up so high that the prop is just under the surface to get to some of my favorite honey holes its all fun till you have 28 gallons of gas an the back of the boat sits about 3-5 inches lower in the water and I have to strip to my boxers to pull it free but its worth it when that pool at the other end holds 6+ lb bass consistently

I also in tournaments have let time slip away from me an had to run to weigh in doing 60 in 30 MPH wind and 2-3 ft white caps gets the adrenalin going that's for sure lol