As I watch this I can't help having a huge grin om my face from the sheer joy Finnegan has with this boat. His love of boating is incredibly contagious...and I've never been speed boating but now I sure want to...

@iceman22m

Жыл бұрын

I love how his plans changed on a dime! Ask him why, YOLO!!!

@FinnegansGarage

Жыл бұрын

I've lay awake at night thinking about driving this boat ever since I bought it.

@glamiskid50

Жыл бұрын

I grew up with Drag boats at Marine Stadium in Long Beach love and miss it so stoked for Finnegan you can see the pure joy and buying that boat and hanging with his buddies give them hell love y’all

@wobblysauce

Жыл бұрын

Yep, when going fast on water… lots of things can make you stop quick, in like on land there is no rolling.

@ronniewilliz153

Жыл бұрын

Its so sketchy going that fast riding onto of the water but soooo freaking fun cus it's so sketchy. Never been boat racing but been on some fast boats before. Jet skis are wild too.

Mike, see that you just used the phrase "game on" that's exactly the name I wrote for the new boat in a previous post! It's a natural progression for naming. Looking forward to the series of episodes! Take care. DB Long Island, NY. Ps:Yes we have drag boats and gassers here.

@tomstech4390

Жыл бұрын

^This *Game On!*

Mike you are one class act. I met you years ago on a trip to Mopars at the Strip when when you guys took the Super Bee out. I road tripped the Orange Cuda with you from Barstow. My son Jake and I have followed you ever since. Love this series as I gives the back story of what goes on in the pits between rounds. Keep it up.

When my Papa was still with us, he worked law enforcement for 32 yrs. Retired outta Water Patrol. He worked on Barkley and Kentucky Lakes. They'd have jet boat races on KY lake every year and he'd always work em'. Always loved hearing the stories and getting to go out w/him on occasion as a child. Glad you're helping keep the sport alive Mike!

Hey Finn, beautiful boat mate. Down here in Australia out black widow spiders have a red back, being Aussies we got real inventive and called them Redbacks. That top shot of the boat with the stripe looks just like one. If the boys haven't given her a name yet, I reckon Redback would be a fitting name.

I love how Mike try’s to rationalise his purchase. We’ve all been there :)

@danieljames5875

Жыл бұрын

Right? He said I sold my boat and I was gonna be out for good, but he was looking at boats online the day after he sold his lol.. Nothing like money burning a hole in your pocket.

Due to disability I had to close my machine shop. You are one of the few channels that is truly legit, real, and no matter the outcome always feel good with positivity. Health and wellness for you and yours. And an epic thank you

That boat is sick! I can clearly see why people love the sport. Horse power, beautiful lake and people! Looks like a good time to me!

Awesome to see great friends helping out! 629 crew are good people !

Your jetboat drag racing videos may spark a renaissance for the sport...

So friggin’ cool, thanks for bringing us along!

Love it! Thank you for taking us along for the ride!

Man!! Thanks for doing these 3 days in a row... Thats awesome!!!

You could call it 1UP. A new life after game over, also forgot to say, I absolutely love you content and your giddy attitude towards everything in life. Keep doing you!

@glenjamindle

Жыл бұрын

This is too perfect

@stephenlea5765

Жыл бұрын

1up is a good one. I was also thinking of Bonus Time or Power Up.

10/10 Mike this is some of My favorite content of Yours, as Your passion for boats & boat racing really show through. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Dude, what a difference in production quality!

You just took me back! My dad lives in Bakersfield and I got stationed at Beale Air Force base north of Sacramento for my first 8.5 years. I spent MANY weekends at Lake Ming ripping his 1970’s V-Drive Sanger flat bottom across the backside of that lake. That was between 2000-2008 and he still has it. It’s got a big block built by Dale Lambert who was a legend of an engine builder/tuner in the Bakersfield hot rod/drag boat scene. Enjoy the new boat and can’t wait to see more liquid quarter mile content!

That’s a hell of a name for a boat Black Friday

@jeffmiller2682

Жыл бұрын

Thinking fruit cake flyer !

What a lucky man! Hard work and Hard play and most importantly an understanding Wife nothing like it! Thanks again for the great content for all of us old racers who live vicariously through your journey back to racing. God bless you! 🙏🏼 Stay safe.. keep the wet side down.👍

There is no greater feeling in the world and back in your jet out in the water starting it up and when the pump finally catches prime the boat shifts forward on the trailer and the engine loads and you know your ready to rip! 👌🏼 congrats bud! Sick boat! Sad to see the placecraft go but this this is sick!

This is going to be wild. Congratulations!

Beautiful looking boat. She sounded really great on that last shot of you accelerating away from the start line rope. Great bunch of guys assisting you too. That extra money you had from selling “Game Over” was obviously burning a hole in your pocket. Good Luck.👍👍🇨🇦

Love the new boat brother! Awesome video. Can't wait to see #2!

the quality of this video is top tier

Congrats on the new boat. Love watching all the stuff you do, thanks for that. Can't wait to watch the next 2 videos. Keep up the awesome work.

Never have been a drag boat guy, but after watching this, I sure am thinking about getting one!

Excited for part 2 and 3, your attitude and enthusiasm is always inspiring, thanks for the vids

Seems like a lot of trouble. Bust Out Another Thousand!

Literally the best gearhead channel on KZread.

Bless 422 guy. Wants no drama in the pits.

You look so comfortable in that environment! Congratulations on your new boat!!!

simplicity is good beautiful boat

@jeffmiller2682

Жыл бұрын

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I love. Every. Video. This. Man. Does. ,, smart smooth , calm. A real talent. A great. Man's. Teaching. Skills

Watching your jet adventures makes me want to get into the sport. Cant wait to add the jet boat races to the list of drag races we go to!

@kenkrauss5045

Жыл бұрын

I wore Red Back boots for over 20 years... until I got neuropathy in my feet.

Go get em Mike!

Now that's good clean American fun. I like the simplicity of your boat. Less wrenching more fun. Thank you for your time.

Yes. Thanks for giving

Not a boat guy but I love seeing finnegan race jet boats. Hope this jet boat brings you years of joy Mike!

This is the early Christmas present I didn’t know I needed

I vote to name it "Game On"!

Thanks, looking for next race drop today. Best to you Scott🏁

@scottwhitmire6613

Жыл бұрын

Whats DM the telegram? I'm an OLD ANALOG GEAR HEAD. Best to you Scott 🏁

What an incredible boat. It's got such a beautiful paint scheme and classy accents with the chrome. I love how purpose built it is for racing too with the seat placement and all the forethought to make it as light as possible. I can't wait to see you having a blast racing this beast. Good luck and I hope it always runs safe for you.

So awesome to see you at the drag strip Finn. The boat looks amazing and knowing you, you'll have a lot of fun and go really fast. Cheers mate

A beautiful boat, and a bunch of great friends, congrats ! 👏

@waynecronan4160

Жыл бұрын

Used to run drag boats at Long Beach Marina and lake ming in the early seventies with a Sanger pickle fork called motherforker. Gene Palmer was the owner and driver. I built the boat and the engine. Had lots of fun Crazy Wayne Cronan

hell yeah, some black friday entertainment just in time!

Mike!!! Damn FUN!!! Massive Thanks!! Really have enjoyed all your content. Regular guy stuff, from a couple of EXTRODINARY, regular guys. I'm sure I'm speaking for a lot of us in saying this. We know we have a role in your success as consumers of all that is "Mike Finnegan" and we are happy to do our part. It's a win win, know brainier. Vicariously we enjoy life more with you. You do you, really well. Do us a favor and Thank God, once in awhile cuz we all get blessed with watching your success. Thanks Mike. Thank you God for Mike and his ability and wherewithal to express our brand of success.

Wow beautiful boat, Yep I was here watching. Yeah I just love hearing the motors run, I’ll be following for more

I'm surprised California still allows power boats in the local waters

@Keifsanderson

Жыл бұрын

Give them time

@chloehennessey6813

Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t have the .50 caliber clips with heat seekers (Maxine Watters) or assault clips on it. So it’s good.

@robwigglezz944

Жыл бұрын

@@chloehennessey6813 it's got a scary handle and a folding back thingy though

@bigballmagrawl0929

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they won't for long that state blows

@chrisbennett9034

Жыл бұрын

That's why there in Bakersfield!!

GAME ON! Last was game over and you even said game on. So… GAME ON!

That’s what I love about motor sports. The mate ship and everyone helping each other 🍻🇦🇺

Could "feel" your enthusiasm... enjoyed the video very much... thanks for sharing !!

LOVE the boat racing content. Watching your old boat racing videos got me into boating.

I’m guessing you flew into SD to pick up that truck because flying into at least ONT would of saved you at least a couple hours in traffic. Sweet ass boat ! Can’t wait to see it run. 😍

Loving these Fin! Love the old school self filmed videos. Glad its all worked out after the changes. You look happier then ever doing what you love.

I was born and raised in SoCal, left when I was 40 in '92 and the only thing I miss about the place is the Mexican food and the Seafood restaurants on the beach.

@TheTheomax

Жыл бұрын

Yes sir, I lived in San Diego 2000-2004 and I really miss the Mexican and the Seafood also. I stayed at my brothers in Pacific Beach for the first 8 months or so. There are so many really good places to get Mexican food and I'm making myself hungry as I type!

Mike, This is by far "The Best" video episode that I've ever seen, of yours. It has the look of a well produced product for television. That coupled with your natural easy going sense of humor has made this so very much fun to watch. Big props to your friends who also double as your crew. These guys are studs. I've LOVED jet boating for 40 years and this all reminds me of great times with my buddies back in the day. Thanks for taking us along for the ride and good luck with the new boat (It Is Super Bitchin) as you dive head first into 3 classes of California Jet Boat Drag Racing! PS, That little Abigail is a sweetheart. I'm Stoked for episodes 2 and 3.

@DonOblivious

Жыл бұрын

>It has the look of a well produced product for television. What? No it doesn't. Some of the *editing* has the feel of a television production. The actual look is really, really rough because of the vast differences between the cameras they filmed on. There's only so much you can do to correct the color and exposure, but I'm not sure if anybody even tried. I'm not upset about it because filming to production to release is happening really quickly for this series, but they really need to set up some color and exposure correction presets in the editing software to at least get the cameras in roughly the same ballpark. Like, nobody is saying "go buy a triple trackball color grading control surface," but c'mon, at least pull up the adjustment window and give the washed out camera some tweaks to bring it closer to the nicer footage. Side note: good audio quality is much more important than good video quality on KZread. People will accept that one camera looks kinda weird and crappy compared to the other shots, but nobody will accept the "narrator" jumping between a whisper and ripping your speakers apart, or just going silent because somebody forgot the audio for 45 seconds.

@timford3599

Жыл бұрын

@@DonOblivious Okay then. I guess I will just enjoy it as it is. And I DID enjoy the video. I am looking forward to episodes 2 and 3 Finn. Have fun with the new Drag Boat!

@AxonTransparency

Жыл бұрын

@@DonOblivious I thought it was produced better then 98% of the content on KZread. You're just being a tool....

1976 Camaro. At least 16 years old. Mike born at least by 1960. I never would have guessed. He looks younger than that despite the graying beard. A lot of guys start the gray in their 40’s. Great video and exciting trip. 👍

Awesome Mike well done. I had a chuckle when you went to remove that water bypass with the little hand allen key and I saw how tight the cap screw was, the video then cuts to you with a 1/2 inch drive ratchet and extension. Give it hell!

When I was a kid growing up in the 70's, family friends had a 20' jetboat with an Olds 455. We had a pontoon with a 50 horse Evinrude that burned more oil than gasoline. I would go tubing behind our boat and thought it was great. But when I was asked if I wanted to go tubing behind the jetboat, I was like "sure. How much different can it be?" Whoa Nellie. It literally depanted me. We never did find my trunks and I spent the rest of the day with a beach towel wrapped around my chubby lily white ass. Every time I see a jetboat now it makes me think of that. There's fast, and then there's FAST. That string inside the waistband? Tighten it up!

@valuedhumanoid6574

Жыл бұрын

@Max Power That's exactly what it was. I was a tractor tube with about six patches. You held the tow rope, you didn't tie it to the tube. So half your body was in the water and your arms were stretched out in front of you. Now that's interacting with the water!

GREAT VIDEO MIKE!!!! I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT DRAG BOAT RACING!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!! BEST OF LUCK RACING ON SATURDAY!!!!

Great video, thanks Mike

Man I love this chanel and jet boats I bought 3 after watching your channel your comments (life is to short) bit me! thanks for the fun!

Thats what I'm talking about. LETs go baby

this video made me so happy, thank you

Miss hanging at the lake Glad you got to go chill with old friends and hit the skinny pedal

So glad you’re back on the strip! Been waiting for this for years now.

Mike this was a great video can’t wait to see this ripper again

Personally I prefer cars but this is so interesting to see what else is out there. It's like a documentary the way it's been edited

I concur with finnegans assessment of California's Mexican food. It's different than any other state that has "mexican" food. I grew up in socal. The Mexican food is the ONLY thing I miss. Give me my street tacos and gigantic breakfast burritos.

Awesome video Mike .. I used to go to alot of the NJBA and IHBA drag boat races in Socal in the early 90's . My favorite events were Lake Ming and Puddingstone lake

@IEchuckie

Жыл бұрын

I used to go to Castaic for boat drags

Mike you already named it, you said "Game On" when you got to the lake and it's the perfect name as a continuance for Game Over.

This is an epic series!! I can’t wait to see the next two videos!! Glad you’re back doing what you love finnegan!

Looked all through your pit, no fruitcake to be found. What gives? The Honeybadger crew, lol.. nice meeting you and congrats on the new boat. PS, the bearded one is always available to sort the ice chest (but his consumption rate may not make it a good deal).

Love the laid back vibe to this video

Really, really good stuff....

If this is the new style of videos here, I could not be more excited to support this channel.

Fin know matter what your blog's are like I have been following up since you were on Road Kill always. Always awesome content 👍🤘 Aussie Fan 💪🇦🇺🤘💯

That is one VERY PRETTY BOAT !!!!!!!! I'm so jealous !!!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

Crusty Demons reference… HELL YEAH!!!

I laughed when you said in the intro ... I am doing for you guys. Yeah right ...

Such a beautiful boat! There's only one thing I like better than drag racing and that's drag boat racing!

Extremely nice boat, and I approve the engine

Stoked for you and cheers for the great new content , ,love ya mate cos you take the time to explain to the novice

One of my friends lives in Wildomar. Coming from Australia I was blown away by the traffic in So Cal. Crazy.

worst day of racing will always beat the best day at work, its even better when work and racing coincide together!

Game over, to game ON!

That's one clean boat

Woo, that's badass! Congratulations on getting your unicorn.

My mom got pulled over going south in the same area doin 95 I was in the back and she only got a warning I believe in 1991 love the show

Hahahaha! I did one of those Traffic Schools too! It was called "Pizza for you, Comedians too"! I will never forget it. I took it in a hotel in Leucadia. I had a motorcycle as my daily driver and I drove Class B trucks for work.

Premium refreshments with the Banquet Coors!

Honestly this is bad ass, but I could not imagine paying this much for a boat and having to work on it first thing!!!! You are the man Mike

As much as l love turbo stuff, nothing beats the sound of a crisp rowdy NA engine.

Ditto on not missing SoCal... My old buddy Randy Smith had a house that overlooked Ming. Free entry to the boat drags...lol. "PRO gas Hydro, get em to the launch ramp!"

This is better than a tv show

I'm not a big boat guy, but I still enjoy the boat content. Well done.

That is a beautiful boat! Good color combo!

Pretty righteous!

Speeding tickets... 🤣🤣🤣 my first Speeding ticket was a 6 month licence suspension and $500 fine. Running late for work, clocked at 118 clicks in a 60 zone while slowing down for the rail crossing that was just around the bend I was entering... oh to be that young and carefree again

Very awesome water craft.