By Sandy from NJ on 10/23/2007

Everyone wants to clean the pool now.

By Fast Eddie from Southern New Jersey on 10/23/2007

To clean the leaves and bugs that float in my pool.

By Girlie Man Productions from Hillsborough, CA on 10/23/2007

The jet net is a well designed catamaran style boat with radio control that has a net between the two hulls for cleaning a swimming pool of floating debris and leaves. It is fun to operate and does a decent job of scooping up in the pool. The radio control never worked all that well, however, even with fresh batteries and a good healthy overnight charge on the boat battery. The power was sufficient but it always hesitated, as if some electrical connector inside was not making positive contact. After about two months the cord on the charger gave out and the whole battery charger had a melt down (literally melted the case). If the boat had responded well and/or the battery charger had been built as durably as the boat, I'd rate a full five stars. It's fun, but at this price I expect more than a couple of hiccupping pool cleaning sessions before chortling into a full seizure.

By Poolboy from Indiana on 10/22/2007

This really does the job skimming the pool and everyone enjoys using it. It's a win-win situation.

By lobstersunrise from Scottsdale, Arizona on 9/16/2007

It's bigger than I thought it would be. The net goes in and comes out really easily, and the mesh is very fine enough to pick up even tiny debris. It's not very fast though. "Powerful twin motors", is a little misleading. It's meant to clean the pool in a fun way, but it's not fast like a racer boat, wouldn't be much fun in a lake or anything, but you can run it without the net if desired! We figured a way to have it carry drinks and snacks to us!

The boat itself is quite loud to operate and doesn't have a long range on the radio controller. You pretty much have to be standing right next to the pool. I figured a way to get the antenna on the boat to stand straight up in the air (I rigged it through the little toy driver's arms) because it has even less range if it drags behind the boat or even hangs over the front.

The controller piece is very toy-like, cheap plastic, but it seems to work fine! There are 2 propellers on the boat. By using one or the other or a combination of reverse and forward, you can tightly control the direction of the boat with a little practice. It doesn't pick up debris in corners or even right along the very edge of the pool, but the wake produced by the propellers stir things up so that leaves may move away from the side and you can get them the next time around. The front of the boat has these little wheels so that when it runs into the side of the pool, it doesn't scrape along the side, it rolls.

It has a removable, rechargeable battery pack for the boat. I guess that's good that you don't have to pay for batteries all the time, but then you have to plan ahead to make sure it's charged and ready, and if it dies, you're done for the next 4 hours until it recharges. I wonder if one can purchase a second, back-up battery pack. The hand controller uses a disposable 9-volt, it comes with 1 in the box.

In general, I really like it. It does what my regular skimmer does, but in a more entertaining way and you don't have to stop and shake the net clean all the time like I do with my skimmer, because it's deeper and holds the leaves. I usually just have to empty it at the end of the session. The pool isn't immaculate but it's significantly improved and ready for swimming!