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A battered old air boat rusting in the weeds behind the local WalMart in Taos, New Mexico.

Behind the WalMart

by JHF on November 8, 2009 · 2 comments

in Taos

Yes, that’s a boat. A very loud and dangerous boat. Wherever did they use it in el Norte?

Patsy November 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm

“The Boat” boggles my mind. It is beyond scary to me and then I wonder Why would anyone put an engine on a boat like that .. then I thought some more and decided I had closed my eyes instead of looking with new.
thank you John.

JHF November 9, 2009 at 9:04 am

This type of air boat is fairly common in some places, like tidal water marshes in the South. Anywhere that the water is calm and wide enough will do. The cage which normally surrounds the propeller is piled on the front of the boat, a flat-bottomed design sometimes called a jon-boat.

The exhaust on this one just shoots straight out the stern, however, which must have made it excruciatingly loud! That may also be the usual practice, I don’t know.

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