Anyone here into R/C boats? Besides myself?
Any R/C boaters on mud? (1 Viewer)
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I've always wanted an R/C sailboat. Are you talking power boats?
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either or
splitshot
Head cook, Bottle washer, and Peace keeper.
I used to mess around with planes....
What kind are you into?
What are you running?
I used to race all over the southeast out of the Atlanta Model Boaters club. Stryker cats, Insane cats and monos with either J&G or Zenoah G-260m powerplants. Started with nitro outboard tunnels and got really sick of the fickle engines and cost of 70% nitro so I went gas, IMO its the only way to really have fun with r/c powerboats. I also had a couple of sailboats that were a lot of fun to mess around with.
I used to race all over the southeast out of the Atlanta Model Boaters club. Stryker cats, Insane cats and monos with either J&G or Zenoah G-260m powerplants. Started with nitro outboard tunnels and got really sick of the fickle engines and cost of 70% nitro so I went gas, IMO its the only way to really have fun with r/c powerboats. I also had a couple of sailboats that were a lot of fun to mess around with.
Traxxas Villan (old school version) running the Novak E-Maxx Brushless motors. Just to **** around with in the pond, quick boat, good battery life with the brushless too. Gotta save up for some li-po batteries..
I have a Thunder Tiger "Victoria", but it's not a kick-ass Deep-V, it's a sailboat. 30" replica of a 12m racer, and it has it's own model boat racing class. I haven't raced it in a sanctioned event yet, but soon.
I'm lucky to have a designated yacht pond in a city park right near my place. The old fellas in the model boat club maintain it (one of the many benefits of living in a Naval base city is having lots of retired swabbies around). You should see some of the builds these guys have. One I saw last year was a 5' model of a nuke sub, complete with functional trident missiles (using Estes model rocket engines), and an underwater camera in the nose. The guy would submerge the sub, move it across the pond completely unnoticed, and the only way you'd know where it was was when a missile would break the surface...
I'm lucky to have a designated yacht pond in a city park right near my place. The old fellas in the model boat club maintain it (one of the many benefits of living in a Naval base city is having lots of retired swabbies around). You should see some of the builds these guys have. One I saw last year was a 5' model of a nuke sub, complete with functional trident missiles (using Estes model rocket engines), and an underwater camera in the nose. The guy would submerge the sub, move it across the pond completely unnoticed, and the only way you'd know where it was was when a missile would break the surface...
I have an old gas "Rustler". It's 44" long and quite fun!
TK
TK
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Power eletric, I just got a cheapo one off ebay($10) and it turned out to be pretty sweet... 36" long 2 motors, 2 propellers, goes about 20mph the controller can control it about 150+ away(might go farther but i didn't test it) I was thinking about upgrading the batteries to bigger/more powerfull ones and the engines after messing with it at a local lake...
I was wondering if the engines in boats are the same as the engines in RC cars?
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Damn, that's awesome! That's the best $10 investment you'll ever make outside Thailand.
hit www.rcuniverse.com they have a dedicated boat section......lotsa great ways to spend a bunch of money.....
oh yeah, get a good casting fishing rod..youll need it to retrieve the boat when the battery runs out.
oh yeah, get a good casting fishing rod..youll need it to retrieve the boat when the battery runs out.
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Would it be an issue if I changed my 7.2v 1800 batteries to 9.2 1800 batteries?
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Is the speed controler on the motors or the control box??
its inside the boat. its connected to the wires that com from the battery, and feed into the motors. think of the 1800 milliamps like the reserve cycle of a battery. larger number= deeper reserve. They have cells up over 3600 milliamps. A higher voltage battery pack will make the boat go faster, but at increased strain to the speed controller.
check out www.radicalrc.com for all kinds of battery info and deals. Ive bought a ton of packs from him for my rc airplanes (fortunately a habit that was replaced with cruisers)...
check out www.radicalrc.com for all kinds of battery info and deals. Ive bought a ton of packs from him for my rc airplanes (fortunately a habit that was replaced with cruisers)...
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Thanks for the useful info
