2024 Hewescraft River Runner 200

MORE BOAT. LESS WATER. MORE FISH.
The farther you head upriver, the better your boat’s engine and hull need to be to get you back safely. Our only jet-propulsion model, the River Runner has the thick bottom plate (full-length .190” with added structure and thickness in impact zones) and the engine (230HP Rotax inboard jet) to do just that. Any jet boat can take you into skinny water.  The River Runner is not just any boat—its combination of light weight, safety-feature-rich computer-controlled engine, and overbuilt hull give it the safety of a Hewescraft.
You don’t need a big, deep boat that might only look impressive on a trailer to fish with the legendary Hewescraft safety.  Not every Hewescraft is a 27-foot, deep-v monster meant to pound through white-capped ocean chop.  Sometimes, a Hewescraft is a right-sized, 18-foot jet boat built to go up shallow rivers where no deep-drafting vessel dares to go.

When the best fishing is where most boats can’t go—around rocks, through weeds, and over glacial gravel—the River Runner is the perfect boat to take you there.  No more dinged props, broken skegs, and embarrassed looks—just smooth handling and great fishing.  The River Runner hull, paired with a BRP Rotax jet powerplant, enables you to skim over water as shallow as four inches.  The River Runner is more boat for the times when there’s less water.  Take it where the water is skinny, where few fishermen can go—where it’s conventional-boating hell, but fishing heaven.

Features May Include:

• Battery Selector Switch 
• Bilge Pump: Single bilge pump with auto switch 
• Bow Eye: Double, welded 
• Bow Deck: Treadplate, self-bailing, with storage 
• Canvas: Two-bow sport top; black, gray 
• Cleats: 8”, welded, four on gunwale, one on bow inwale 5 5
• Cup Holders: Port and starboard dash, one on each side 
• Decals: 15” vinyl side striping with graphics;
• black, white, blue, green, red, orange, charcoal, Anniversary Blue
• Door: Walk through, access to bow, 2 latches, one top and one bottom
• Engine Cover: Includes padded cushion 
• Fish Box: 27 gallon in bow floor, diamond treadplate hatch 
• Fish Box: Twin 9 gallon on transom 
• Fuel System: 34 gal 43 gal
• Fuel-Water Separator 
• Glove Box: Lockable 
• Grab Handles: Inwale front port side, glove box and windshield 
• Grate: Fixed 
• Horn: Flush mount 
• Instrument Panel:
• -Six water-resistant rocker style switches
• -Fuel gauge and one panel knock-out for additional gauge 
• -Power point
• -Six-gang expansion fuse block
• Lights: LED, navigational 
• Lights: LED, anchor, removable 
• Motor: Rotax inboard jet 4-TEC, 230 HP 
•      Mufflers: Dual exhaust, under jet platform 
• Paint: Light gray, full inside 
• Pre-rig: BRP Standard gauge with livorsi control 
• Rod Grippers: Inwale, port and starboard 
• Seats: High-back, dry box with lid, swivel, horseshoe suspension 
• Steering Wheel: Stainless steel with rubber grip 
• Steering: BRP with tilt 
• Stern Eyes: Welded, port and starboard 
• Transducer Bracket: Port and starboard 
• Transom Access Panel: Carpeted 
• Transom: Platform