Hi all!
I'm just getting back into the hobby and looking for a rc boat. What would you recommend? Looking to be under 500$ .
I'm just getting back into the hobby and looking for a rc boat. What would you recommend? Looking to be under 500$ .
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Yeah I had a spartan and a blast boat from Traxxas and was nothing but junk and issues .Traxxas make some nice boats even though i am not a fan of Traxxas cars their boats are pretty good
I just go to the salt river , gila river or apache lakeI want a boat!! No water here though!!
Stuck in the dirt
Yes that boat is amazing but if you are looking for something REALLY FUN and exotic i would get this https://www.rchighperformancehobbies.com.au/product/tfl-hobby-1127-sprint-formula-boat-rtr/Theres a couple of boat guys in here that I'm sure can make some recommendations. Unfortunately I'm not one of them
IDK what size boat you are looking for but someone in here recently bought THIS and I thought that it looked pretty amazing and I wished I had water around me lol
https://www.rchighperformancehobbies.com.au/product/tfl-hobby-1127-sprint-formula-boat-rtr/Hi all!
I'm just getting back into the hobby and looking for a rc boat. What would you recommend? Looking to be under 500$ .
To add to @cbaker65 's comment it is also worth noting that v-hulls or deep vee's are the only ones that are truly good and making turns both left and right. All the other models due to the design prefer to go straight. You can make them turn, but not nearly as well and sharp and a v-hull.
My son's smaller v-hull can bust 180 degree turns all day just for fun.
A good v-hull set up at high speeds ,only the a very small portion of the back of the bottom of
the boats transom should touch the water as about 3/4 of the front half isnt or barely skimming
the top of the water!...
$500 is not going to get your lunch we could pay $500 and you can have something that's just really lousy. And the opposite is you pay a lot less and get something totally good and decent and reliable. Remember price is not the quality it's the quality of the people that make the item. I'm not a bolt person because there's no place for me to drive a boat. But I know that if I was looking for one I would start looking at Tower Hobbies or something like that.Honestly, $500.00 isn't going to get you much once you start adding in battery packs and a charger. I don't know much about electric boats (I run gas and formerly nitro boats). Steve at Offshore Electrics mentioned above is great to deal with and can answer your questions.
Buying your first boat then some others after that isn't easy. You already have a price in mind but don't be surprised if you find something that you really like for a few bucks more. Get a hull style in mind then go from there.