Thanks for the insight ! You'd comments on Marine ESCS was most useful. With sooo many projects, I decided to visit my local hobby shop ( Dan's Hobby House of Wavearly ) and picked up what had on the shelf; TRAXXAS NAUTICA ESC and TRAXXIS BLAST COOLING KIT. TRAXXAS OEM trim tabs and turn...
I just bought two totes full of used / wrecked stuff for $50. The vintage TAMIYA GJRE GAWM Speed Boat caught my eye. After being sunm and recovered it was in sorry shape. PIX of my gash patches soo. Motorcwas a MABUCHI RS-540SH- 7520 which I took apart, de-rusted, resolved and reassembled...