Rc boats.

[derrick]

Anyone else play with them or race them. Got back into them last year, was not able to ride, needed something to play with. Now a couple of us go to the local once a week. Mostly 2 stroke motors. A bit of nitro. Never got into electrics. But it's never to late. Boats already to go for Friday, weather permitting.

 

[Cycleops]

Never got into those sort of boats but remember when I was about 14 building a simple flat bottom hull out of ply and sticking a Davies Charlton diesel on a pylon at the back and sending it across the local boating lake in the park. Walter the softies beautiful sailing yacht would sometimes suffer a knock or two.
Much later I built a corvette or destroyer in balsa and ply from a kit. Never returned to boats after that.

 

[Mark Grant]

I've got some over the last year or three as a change from planes, Mainly sailboats but a couple of electric too.
Here's a little Keil Kraft Cresta I built from free plans, It's finished now and ready to go.

 

[Jody]

Anyone else play with them or race them. Got back into them last year, was not able to ride, needed something to play with. Now a couple of us go to the local once a week. Mostly 2 stroke motors. A bit of nitro. Never got into electrics. But it's never to late. Boats already to go for Friday, weather permitting.

Always wanted one as a kid. Local model boating lake near us had these things whizzing round at crazy speeds.

Didn't envy them when wading out to retrieve when broken down or out of fuel.

 

[derrick]

Always wanted one as a kid. Local model boating lake near us had these things whizzing round at crazy speeds.

Didn't envy them when wading out to retrieve when broken down or out of fuel.

We have a rescue boat, no wadding allowed the lake is 30 ft deep in parts,

 

[Jody]

We have a rescue boat, no wadding allowed the lake is 30 ft deep in parts,

I was surprised the first time I saw a person stood up in the middle. I had no idea it was only waste deep the whole way across as the other half of the lake is for jet ski's, so is obviously deeper.

 

[derrick]

Little clip from today.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCHhoEvN1_0

 

[Cycleops]

Enjoy it before it's banned.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I've often fancied an R/C boat, but something serene like a sail boat.

 

[derrick]

Another bit of vidio. A mates 56 Apache. 26cc 2 stroke.

Don't know why vidio is showing that way.
View: https://youtu.be/EKvLDXsgu7A

 

[derrick]

Another play day

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKA2Owft54A&t=4s

 

[derrick]

New boat arriving tomorrow. Just got to sort a colour scheme for it. And also what motor, sticking with a 2 stroke. looking at a 52 cc twin.

 

[derrick]

A bit done on the boat. went for the 30cc Zenoah in the end. should push it along nicely.

 

[Cycleops]

Hope you don't need the waders

 

[Jameshow]

Over covid I finished off a Vic smeed starlet that my dad started 30yrs ago...