Stunt Boat Challenge

Location
Cafe Robina, Little Havana, Vice City Mainland
Reward
$1,000

Umberto Robina decides to test Tommy’s nerve by making him drive a boat. Race a Speeder through a course of checkpoints around Leaf Links and the canals with a Cuban gangster called Rico on board, and finish inside the three minutes.

Before you start

Keep wearing the Havana outfit if you still have it, since Umberto jokes about your clothes, but it does not affect the mission.

Objectives

  1. Go through the first checkpoint to begin the test.
  2. You have three minutes to get round the course.

Stunt Boat Challenge walkthrough

Meeting Umberto

Walk into Cafe Robina and Umberto Robina pushes past his father, an older man who wants to welcome you, to meet you. He mocks the way Tommy dresses, and Tommy answers with jokes of his own. By the end of the argument Umberto likes him and sends him to a small dock at Leaf Links to prove himself behind the wheel of a boat.

Umberto Robina approaching Tommy inside Cafe Robina
Tommy and Umberto arguing over Tommy's clothes
Umberto laughing and sending Tommy to the dock

Drive to the dock by the golf club. Rico is waiting there and climbs into the Speeder with you. Get behind the wheel and aim at the first glowing checkpoint out on the water. Passing through it starts a three minute timer, so you will not lose time until you do.

Tommy and Rico standing at the dock before the test
The Speeder leaving the dock toward the first checkpoint
A boat passing along the course beside the golf course

The first half of the course

Follow the checkpoints along the waterways, keeping the nose of the boat pointed straight at each marker. The canals narrow near the buildings, so ease off before the sharp bends and avoid grazing the banks. A wrecked hull or jetty can flip you, so steer around them instead of trying to jump over.

The Speeder racing toward a checkpoint across open water
Going up a ramp toward the glowing marker
Weaving along a canal lined with palms and hotels

The final stretch

Watch the checkpoint counter and the time on screen, and cut corners where the water is wide. At Leaf Links the course jumps over part of the golf grounds near the second checkpoint, where golfers always stand, and killing them earns a $100 bonus. Do not waste your three minutes chasing them. Stay on the throttle all the way through the last marker.

The Speeder heading under a long bridge toward a checkpoint
A canal bend with a hotel beyond the next marker
Under a bridge with the final checkpoints close
Passing beneath an arched footbridge on the last stretch

Finish

After the last checkpoint the Cuban gangster says he is impressed and sails off, and the mission is complete. Cannon Fodder and Juju Scramble are open to you.

Tommy standing beneath a bridge as the mission passed screen shows
Tommy walking along the road after Rico leaves

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • The Speeder is destroyed
  • Rico dies
  • The three minutes run out
  • You abandon the Speeder too far from the course

After the mission

You get $1,000. Cannon Fodder and Juju Scramble open.