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With an airboat you can experience the excitement of viewing
exotic birds, turtles and the Florida alligator in their own
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Press the "Play" button on the video. Short clip shows the
shallow water capability of an airboat. On our trip we saw
Gators, wild turkeys, snakes and even a bald eagle. We
included the eagle in the clip.
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Air boats vary in size from 18 person tour boats to trail
boats carried on a road trailer and suitable for two or three
passengers. |
The flat bottom allows air boats to navigate easily through
shallow swamps and marshes as well as in canals, rivers and
lakes, it can also be used on frozen lakes. The driver sits
high on a platform to improve visibility and to permit
spotting floating obstacles and animals in the path of the
boat. Steering is accomplished by swiveling vertical fins
positioned in the propeller wash in the very rear of the
airboat, so control is a function of current, wind, water
depth and propeller thrust. Crabbing into the wind or current
is required. The noise from the propeller and engine is quite
loud; the majority of the noise is produced by the propeller. |
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