Almost everyone here knows I run a jet boat in the Susquehanna River. The Susquehanna is extremely shallow and rocky. I run a G3 center console tunnel Jon boat with a 115/80 Yamaha outboard jet. Which is a great platform. Like everyone we all want to upgrade our rigs.

I decided to get versaflex 225 (better known as K5) sprayed on my boat hull. This is a pure polyurea that was developed as a blast resistant polymer. After this gets put on wet lander is the final coat to make it super slick. All this is to protect the hull from rock damage and glide over them easier if I do hit.

It did make loading and unloading a breeze. It feels like it’s a roller trailer. I feel less flex through the hull. I did bump into a rock while drifting down fishing and it just deflected right over it. It did. It hang up like I normally would have. It does take me a little longer to get on plane and I may change impellers to counter act that. I do not draft any lower and can still run in 3” of water on plane.

Here is a sample of some of the sections I run. You can see all the shallow rocks and area I go. I do this on plane to remain in complete control and run the shallowest I can.

K5 sounds like magic. Let us know how it ages.

@Swamp Girl its nothing new. People have been doing it around here for awhile. There is only a couple places on the whole east coast that do it. If you put a hole in the boat insurance would pay to have it put on instead of totaling a boat hull.

2 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

@Swamp Girl its nothing new. People have been doing it around here for awhile.

It's new to me, so I'm sticking with my "It's Hogwarts magic!" assumption. Yep, K5 came from here:

@Swamp Girl with boats like the rock proof style they run extra thick hulls with UHMW or steel plates on them. The new banshee boats are running V8 inboards because of the weight. For me K5 is my only choice for a production aluminum boat.