I want a boat

[TeknoJ]

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I'm telling you, for the price, WITH a battery, it's a great first boat. ALL the dudes at my club were surprised by it out of the box and they all have the larger rigs you mentioned.

I found one for about $160, it was a little rusty but cleaned up nice.
I agree, great first boat.

 

[TeknoJ]

I've looked at the proboat a few times it keep catching my attention as well, what kind of rooster tail will it shoot out? this is my main goal, large tails and some fast rips back and forth, ok lets be honest..... I'm also gonna want to tow the kayak with it.....

The 18” doesn’t have a huge rooster tail I’d say a few feet or less.

i haVE YET TO SEE A BAD REVIEW OF THE HEATWAVE, I oops, i want to order that one for my son, I'm thinking about ordering 2 of em so we can both run em,

If you get a recoil 18, do the hatch mod. I posted a few pics in my thread about it but IronCladRC shows it on a video. That and a bigger battery, the smc 1800 3s is perfect.

 

[Xraycer]

Apparently in tge middle of the water hes safe. She can't swim.

Yeah, but how's her marksmanship with a rifle?

 

[mapper]

I don't know of a self righting catamaran.
Or a hydroplane,
The only self righting models I know of is traxxas disruptor, and spartan Sr, for proboat the recoil and sonic wake series are self righting.

The tfl boats have a self righting pursuit, and there may be some models of oxidean marine that are self righting.

My small flotilla is a mix of proboat and traxxas.
Proboat
Jetstream
Sonic wake 36
Horizon harbor tugboat
Miss geico zelos 36

Traxxas
Disruptor

And a cheap Amazon deerc boat.

I haven't run the tug and miss geico yet, I just picked them up, used never run.

 

[Lostinthewoods86]

Traxxas
Disruptor

How is this one?

 

[mapper]

26" long, runs on 3 &4s, 2400kv i think I saw it somewhere outrunner motor, I like mine, 45 mph so far. Self righting, thick abs hull. Esc was warranted within first 30 days. I think it is a 90 amp, traxxas is secretive about motor/esc specs.
No problems after that. Other than usual servo upgrades, reciever, prop, etc.

 

[64Corvette]

Last year one of our club members was trying out his power boat for the first time and long story short ended up hitting another guy's sailboat at high speed and literally splitting it in half. I am pretty sure that is why we now have different days on the pond for sailboats and powerboats. Needless to say he felt really bad about it and bought the other guy a new (and better) sailboat.

Given my propensity for crashing into other cars at the track (I am getting better) I should probably stay away from powerboats.

 

[majin]

I don't know of a self righting catamaran.
Or a hydroplane,
The only self righting models I know of is traxxas disruptor, and spartan Sr, for proboat the recoil and sonic wake series are self righting.

The tfl boats have a self righting pursuit, and there may be some models of oxidean marine that are self righting.

My small flotilla is a mix of proboat and traxxas.
Proboat
Jetstream
Sonic wake 36
Horizon harbor tugboat
Miss geico zelos 36

Traxxas
Disruptor

And a cheap Amazon deerc boat.

I haven't run the tug and miss geico yet, I just picked them up, used never run.

my guy! you were exactly who i was asking then lol, i have a few of those in random carts lol, which one would you say you drive the most?

 

[mapper]

While the jet boat is fun, it is a entirely diffrent experience than a prop driven boat with a rudder. It only turns under power like any jet drive. It is wide..and very stable..

Of the prop boats, between the sonic wake and disruptor, I've had the disruptor longer, so it has more time on it. the sonic wake 36 is bigger than than the disruptor, and has a flood chamber that fills to self right. The disruptor uses torque from the motor to self right.

Now while proboat says that the sonic wake 36 is 6s compliant, I haven't found that to be so for more than 3 seconds. The esc is undersized for that task but that's my opinion.

Sonic wake uses a ribbed interior support with a 2.5mm abs skin on it, disruptor to me is more rigid.

Disruptor comes with plastic prop but that can be changed to same size/pitch from m41 or spartan that is stainless.


I
am looking forward to running the miss geico I picked up, but its not self righting and requires a rescue boat, which I have a tugboat that I haven't used for that yet.

I'm working on a water pump and camera on the tugboat before I use it.

Now UM bud can tell you his thoughts on recoil I think and sonic wake 36 and 48.

As well as others with what they run.

Look at some videos from ironclad rc YouTube, he runs a lot of diffrent boats.

 

[Tunedfrog]

I can't either but after a few minutes even I float. Unfortunately you can only do it once.

Back off bucko, I invented the redneck fish finder.

 

[TeknoJ]

Now while proboat says that the sonic wake 36 is 6s compliant, I haven't found that to be so for more than 3 seconds. The esc is undersized for that task but that's my opinion.

Spektrum electronics, no surprise there.

 

[bigdaddysteve0408]

I want a boat and I kinda dig the traxxas spartan and the blackjack catamaran.
But I'm also sketched out on getting my first boat.
Ill obviously need a trailer for it but that will be later
I was hoping maybe some of you water dogs will chime in
We would be primarily running it at our resevoir so no boat wakes pretty flat.
I don't want small boat but I don't want one of those big 42" boats
I need it to be self righting
Any input is appreciated

I jut got the Traxxas m41.
I love it. I picked Traxxas because I have a dozen of their land vehicles and countless batteries.

 

[majin]

I jut got the Traxxas m41.
I love it. I picked Traxxas because I have a dozen of their land vehicles and countless batteries.

o yeah that looks wicked, hows a catamaran compare to a regular boat do you know?