(boat engine roars)
- We just found out about this thing called boats
and we are obsessed, all right.
Picture this guys, cars but somehow more powerful,
way more dangerous and more wet.
Today we're gonna be looking at
some of the highest horsepower boats that exist
for literally no reason at all.
And if you watch YouTube, you may have heard
about this thing that Mr. Beast is doing, Team Seas,
we are super excited to be a part of it.
We'll give you more info later in the video
so that you can help us clean up the ocean.
I'm James, this is the Monolist
and this is the show where we put random car crap
or boat crap on trial.
The Sea-list.
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Hello?
- What?
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(car engine roars)
Oh, sorry.
- Ah jeez.
- Okay, good job, bud.
Where do we go now though?
- Well, I gotta play that game,
so first stop, the phone store.
- Okay, I'll get you there in a jiffy.
(bright music)
- Listen, people have been making fast boats
for a very long time.
Ever heard of Vikings, Rome?
They were fast.
This isn't a definitive list of the fastest boats ever,
we made this video to show you how absurd boats have become.
So, to kick this pool party off,
we're gonna start with one of the raddest things ever,
fricking jet boat.
Back in the 1960s, during the hot rod days,
the same philosophy was applied to boats,
all right, you take... (fly buzzing)
(James claps)
- [Max] You got it. - Yeah.
You take the biggest, fattest American V8 that you can find
and you cram it into a teensy, tiny little boat!
That's called a power to weight hack.
The '60s died but people are still building sick jet boats.
For example, this LS swapped one that was built
by a couple of fellow YouTubers, shouts to Dirt Cinema,
sup, dudes.
They pulled a 5.3 liter LS from a junkyard
and slapped some absolutely insane eight to one headers
on it.
Listen to this thing.
(boat engine roars)
Listen to it!
(boat engine roars)
How many sea hrsprs does it make?
A pretty respectable 350.
(fart sounds)
(boat engine roars)
- She's got some pepper.
- She's got some pepper
and that's the slowest boat on this list.
We see you Dirt Cinema, not a bad way to kick off the list,
but let me assure you,
this ain't the last jet boat you're gonna see
on this Monolist because Monolist told me it wanted more
and I have no choice but to comply.
All right, for our next stop or should I say next dock?
The rivers of Southeast Asia,
talking about Thai river boats.
If you guys haven't seen these,
they're one of the raddest thing,
pretty much the reason we made this video.
They're long tail boats with turboed car engines
mounted on the back, you know, totally normal stuff!
And when I say mounted on the back,
I mean the engine literally sits on a stick
on the back of the boat
with the propeller mounted to the drive shaft.
Drive doesn't have a seatbelt or shoes.
The people that build these use pretty much whatever engines
they can, here's one with a Twin Cam 4A-GE on ITBs.
Sick.
And here's one currently being built by CB Media
with a Turbo 13B from an RX-7,
that's supposed to make 500 seahorsepowers!
But maybe you're thinking to yourself, James,
a turbocharged floating piece of wood really isn't my vibe.
I'm not about that jacket rose life.
Maybe your tastes are a little higher end
and you'd rather drop $12 million
on this V12 Ferrari hydroplane boat.
Now I'm not talking about some ocean drifter dude
who pulled a Ryan Tuerck and put a Ferrari engine
in his dinghy, I'm talking about the only
officially sanctioned Ferrari boat ever.
The Arno XI or is it Arno XL?
- X, oh yeah, it's XI, so I guess-
(James breathes heavily)
- X, I don't know, we didn't Google it.
Back in the '50s, a dude named Achille Castoldi
wanted to break the watercraft speed record,
so he commissioned this beautiful piece of art,
a mahogany hydroplane.
The hydroplane uses water for lift instead of buoyancy,
so it barely even touches the water when it's going fast.
That's called friction baby.
Now when my best friend and mentor, Enzo Ferrari,
heard this dude wanted to make a Ferrari-powered boat,
he sent him the same V12
that won Ferrari's first Grand Prix.
Nowadays they just sue Deadmau5 and charities.
A couple of superchargers later
and this historical V12 was pushing 600 sopping wet horses.
It managed to go 150 miles per hour in the 1950s.
That's insane!
You know, if you like it, it's for sale right now.
So, if you got 12 million bones lying around,
hit up a duPont Registry.
Okay, okay.
Let's say that a one-off Ferrari boat
is a little more than you can afford, pal.
I get it, some people are poor.
Maybe V12s aren't your thing.
Well, pop the hood on this next boat
and you'll find a 2JZ GTE.
This 25-foot eliminator boat
was swapped by a company called PSI Racing,
so you know that it's got some boost
because PSI stands for boost.
How much boost?
Well, enough boost to give it
1,000 dripping wet horsepowers.
PSI Racing says that it's the fastest to 2J swapped
eliminator boat in the world
and I dare you to try and top that very specific record.
Now that's a boat that you can take your friends on,
all right, and if 1,000 horsepowered 2JZ boat
that seats five people is somehow too practical for you,
then how about 1,000 horsepower RB26 swapped boat
that only seats two people!
That's right, this is basically a GTR boat.
It's got a fully built RB26/30
with forged guts and a big beefy boy single turbo
that spits out 1,000 seahorses on E85!
Why would somebody need something like this?
I don't know, but the guy that built it tows it to the lake
with his R32 and that is a flex with a capital X.
Although I am gonna take off swag points
because he didn't paint it the same color.
What are you thinking?
We're now in the realm of four digit horsepower.
How much more unnecessary can boats get?
A lot.
Remember them hot dogged up jet boats I was talking about
in the beginning of this video?
One of the most famous ones on YouTube
belongs to another car guy you might've heard of,
a certain Michael Finnegan.
It's called Game Over and has an 11.6 liter Hemi
with two turbos on it.
That massive engine is mounted
like an inch behind where you're supposed to sit.
This is my favorite one on the list.
(car engine roars)
- I'm super excited to-
- [Man] I don't strength is a gift.
(man laughs)
It's not. (boat engine roars)
(loud crash) - He was wearing a helmet
on water.
Finnegan has a whole series on this boat on his channel
if you really wanna nerd out.
Let's talk about how much power
this 1,600 pound twin turbo jet boat makes.
On a conservative tune, it makes around 1,600 hrsprs,
but Finnegan said, he'd be comfortable running 2,000!
Who's comfortable with 2,000 horsepower?
Nobody!
Nobody in the boat, nobody around the boat!
There's nothing comfortable about it!
But what if somehow you are like a weird, weird, weirder
and you want even more power than that
and you also wanna be able to drive through swamps.
If you've ever been to Florida or Louisiana,
I've been to both,
you've probably heard of these things called airboats.
They're one of the coolest things ever.
Basically airboats are sideways helicopters
and unlike Nolan, they have very flat bottoms.
But, as with most things in Florida,
people tend to go a little overboard with these things.
I mean, installing big fat old fatty engines
with absolutely no business being attached
to a fricking fan.
This one in particular is called 2Insane.
One word with a two in it.
It has a Twin Turbo Chevy big block
that makes it completely reasonable, just totally normal.
(fart sounds)
(bouncy music)
(sellotape squeaks)
(bouncy music)
2,500 horsepower!
Like on like some like fricking jet boat, I totally get it.
All right, but have you ever been on an airboat?
They don't have breaks,
they're basically a fricking garage door
with a helicopter motor on the back
and this one has 2,500 horsepower
and you drive it in a place with frigging alligators in it!
You ever seen an alligator?
They're scary as heck!
Pretty much one of the scariest dinosaurs left.
I think all the dinosaurs are scary.
You ever seen an emo?
Comment down below if you want me to make a video
called birds need to chill out.
(man laughs) (James chuckles)
But if you thought that this list was gonna end
at 2,500 horsepower, you are wrong.
You are dead wrong!
That's amateur level stuff compared to what's coming next.
Because next up we have the Nortech 5200 Roadster,
which makes absolutely no sense
because it literally does not drive on the road.
It should be called a lakester.
(sighs) You're probably wondering why they call it
the 5200.
You're saying to yourself, there's no way
it has 5,200 horsepower, right?
Yes, you are right.
That would be ridiculous
because it actually has 5,400 horsepower!
That's what you call a fake out.
How?
Four engines is how, also it has a bathroom.
So you don't have to piss your pants.
This $1.5 million toy can take you and nine of your friends
up to 180 miles per hour while your homeys are pooping
in the head.
The head is what you call a bathroom on a boat.
Why?
I have absolutely no idea.
I also have no idea why you'd need anywhere close to that
kinda power but Nortech seems to think
this is totally necessary.
But again, we are still not done with this list.
Before we get to our last ridiculous boat,
I wanna remind you guys that boats are useless
without water and that's why we're joining up
with practically all of your favorite YouTube creators
for Team Seas to help clean up our oceans,
beaches and rivers.
- Team Seas is working directly with nonprofits
like Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup,
but we need your help to achieve the goal
to remove 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean.
That's a lot of trash.
- Every dollar you donate to Team Seas
will remove one pound of trash.
That means even a donation of just $10
will remove a whopping 10 pounds of garbage
from our planet's waterways.
Get that garbage out of here, I don't wanna see it!
- 10 pounds is like two large garbage bags full of trash,
no longer in the ocean because of your donation.
That's a lot, Nolan can't even lift 10 pounds,
he's got weak bones.
- Exactly.
- So visit teamseas.org
to donate, learn more and help Team Seas reach their goal
of $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of trash
from the seas.
Do it, because mother earth deserves clean oceans.
- And because all of our favorite fish live there.
- The Argentine hake.
- The Norway pout.
- The Pacific sand lance.
- And the Longhorn clownfish.
- So, thank you for doing your part
to make waters a cleaner place and now back to the boats.
Thanks guys, so how about the last boat on this list?
How can anything possibly top a four-engine,
5,000 horsepower porta-potty?
I'll be honest, this last boat doesn't have a bathroom,
so points off.
It doesn't have room for 10 of your friends, points off.
I don't even think it has a poop deck
but what it does have is a 500 cubic inch
supercharged nitromethane fuel V8 that puts out
(bouncy music)
10,000 sea hrsprs!
(dramatic upbeat music)
That's a fast boat, nice.
(man laughs) (indistinct)
10,000 horsepower.
What is this thing you might be asking?
Well, it's a Top Fuel hydroplane drag boat.
It's kinda like a Top Fuel drag car,
except somehow way more dangerous
because unlike a drag strip, water is unpredictable.
I don't know if you've ever seen avatar.
When these things take off,
they can hit over 250 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds.
The engine needs a full rebuild after every single run,
just like a Top Fuel dragster.
At this point, it's easy to wonder if this thing
is even a boat anymore.
Is it an airplane that goes close to water?
I mean, it's essentially a low flying fighter jet,
but I can assure you it's just as buoyant
as all the other vessels that we talked about today
and therefore it's the most powerful boat on the Monolist.
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So new in fact that I don't even have one yet
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I do?
- Whoa, is that the new Donut Mo Powa shirt?
- Yes.
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Guys we don't do a lot of floaty stuff around here,
so I hope you enjoyed watching this.
Again, boats are just cars for the water.
I know it might seem weird to promote ocean conservation
on a video about speedboats but we can't enjoy water sports
if we don't respect the seas.
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