Got my new passenger her own sailing yacht 🙂

Glad to see you have now passed initiation with a dip to collect your boat. You will know that brushless motors are lighter and less bulky than brushed when comparing power and torque, so I hope your boat will perform ok with the added weight. She looks great in your latest pictures 😉

Well the maiden went well today with a much better suited prop. Takes a wee bit of throttle control to get up on plain but once she's on it you can throttle back and she glides around in a lovely fashion.

I had so much fun I thought I'd quickly get home and grab more batteries to continue the fun.

That's when I should have just behaved and left it for the day but nope I returned as the light was fading. Popped my packs in and then in the middle of the effing pond she just went silent. I tried to give her throttle but nothing. So yip I had to wade in and go collect her.


Found fishing line wrapped round my prop and an extremely hot motor.

Sadly the motor is dead though really that's fine by me as I'm not a fan of brushless and love my brushed motors.

Have been home and have performed a quick transplant from brushless to brushed. Have fitted a 755 size Black and Decker drill motor and a 180amp ESC (yes overkill though all I had). Now with the extra torque I've ordered a 55mm prop to replace the 32mm. Hopefully that will allow her to plain a bit quicker as well.

And for some amusement here's my two tone jeans after my dip 🙌

Happy sailing

Scott

Well maiden went ehh....

Let's just make today a pre maiden as prop choice was clearly beyond wrong 😂

A much larger prop is required as all I got was cavitation to a whole new extreme. It barely moved forward just made lots of noise and didn't grip the water at all. I tried to gently build speed up but nope she wouldn't get on the plain just sloshed water and done very little. It was fine at 1 notch of trim on fwd and cruise nicely with that though any throttle and she cavitated

Oh well she handled gentle cruising and turn radius very impressive

Hermank I'm keen on a Aquarama with twin jetdrive. Either way something with a jetdrive though finding an efficient system is difficult. Another is a ducted fan powered simple v hull. The fan would be facing downwards though blowing through a duct and out underneath. Yes bizarre I know though without trying something you'll never know.

I like trying weird and wonderful ideas with rc boats. A bit like the plastic fuel tank I'm waiting for Endurance. It shall be 300ml and with the flow I have through the peristaltic pump it would last 35min. I'll have it filled with iced water for an ultra cool closed loop cooling system. Does it need it? No a simple proven system would work just as well though for use in salt water it'll help me stop internal corrosion of the esc and other metal components 🙂. Well should 🙈🤔

That's a keen looking model, and built in record time.
Hope you have good weather for sea trials.
Well done shipmate, cheers Colin.

Is the Riva. Aquarama the next one ?
I woudn’t be supprised

Hermank I really have. Posh sports boats then the odd tug or container ship 😂

Happy Hagis you seem to love fancy millionaires sportboats
👍👍👍😂😂

So my Krick Florida kit (ABS) arrived at 10am today so I went to work on it using everything and anything I could find to get it water ready asap. Sadly there where a few parts missing though nothing I couldn't make up with bits and pieces in my shed. I've still to complete the cosmetic side though she's ready for the water.

I've chosen the name "Endurance" as I'm running a 3000kv brushless system along with 4 blade bronze prop and 2 x 7.2v 3600 nimh batteries.

I've made the two fake exhausts work by linking up a peristaltic pump which is normally used in a hospital for when you have a drip in you're arm so that the water flowing out the exhausts looks more realistic.

I'll be not using the full potential of the motor and sticking to my slow cruising with the occasional burst of speed

Went with my sunshine yellow hull and white upper for the time being though planning to add name to the side and some lights at some point

It's a big boat! I hadn't actually looked up the length of it 🙈.

Anyways will maiden her possibly Wednesday or Thursday

Will add some photos of the quick build

Happy sailing

Scott