Project: MMM radioshack boat! lol

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by redshift

Dude I think you made the world's first water-semi.... that thing needs a foghorn!

it has one! it's called the motor at a low speed! in the water, the boat makes a nice rumble at low speeds

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

Concerning the wing- normally they provide downforce, but when you flip it upside-down it creates lift. So when you get going fast that upside-down wing is going to lift the boat up out of the water.

yes, it's only going to be on their untill i see that the boat is capable of getting to a good speed or that i see it doesn't need it. then i will take it off (it's only taped on)

Originally Posted by redshift

I pity the prop lol.

me too! i'm afraid it could break at full throttle. That or the driveshaft one

[Modding_out]

Get a video already, your making me impatient.......

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by Modding_out

Get a video already, your making me impatient.......

i test it tomarrow so i'll get some video then

[A RC Dude]

test video
http://tinypic.com/r/or54zn/3

the steering servo just all of a suden stoped working less than 1min into the run. the boat is trying to flip to the right so i'm going to build something to prevent that.

how you guys like the new wing? the old one fell off

-lol- u need more room!!

Try a U-shape piece and stick it to the bottom of the boat sideways on the left side of the hull - it should help holding the left side down in the water....

actually - that might cause it to steer to the left.... i dunno man -lol-

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by danhfvcsd

-lol- u need more room!!

Try a U-shape piece and stick it to the bottom of the boat sideways on the left side of the hull - it should help holding the left side down in the water....

actually - that might cause it to steer to the left.... i dunno man -lol-

lol, i was thinking more along the line of a mini boat hull mounted on the right of it so it would keep the right side from going down. i mite have to do that to both sides though! and i was going to have more room to test but the other park had a disk golf tordament going on

[What's_nitro?]

My god, it's going to be part catamaran, too? ... And they're called out-riggers, fyi.

It wants to take off- just put wings on it already....

hahaha - back to the drawing board then to make it out of foam like those cool hydro planes/boats/cars in one hehehe

I reckon the outrigger style would work if you used it on one side maybe man... dunno how it'd react at speed tho, as the balance would be off....

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

My god, it's going to be part catamaran, too? ... And they're called out-riggers, fyi.

It wants to take off- just put wings on it already....

ok thanks i was thinking it was an outrigger, but didn't know

Originally Posted by danhfvcsd

hahaha - back to the drawing board then to make it out of foam like those cool hydro planes/boats/cars in one hehehe

I reckon the outrigger style would work if you used it on one side maybe man... dunno how it'd react at speed tho, as the balance would be off....

yea, i was thinking to put one on the right side for now, i'll add one to the left if i need to.

[A RC Dude]

update:

tried it like this:


Then it would flip left! So i tried it with two of these up front:


Then it would run fine, but still would tilt side to side before it would rise out of the water again. Plus it was really hard to controle. more mods.....and i took part of the wing off:


One, posibly two more tries untill i'm going to give up on it and just let it be what it is and get a lot of video for everyone

dood - i just have one word for you.....

HYDROFOIL!!!!!!!!!!

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by danhfvcsd

dood - i just have one word for you.....

HYDROFOIL!!!!!!!!!!

haha, that's basically what I had with those fins on the front!

I found 2 old mini radioshack boats not quite 5in long with no remote for cheap off ebay so it's going catamaran!

-lmao- this thread is so funny - please keep it up =)

[A RC Dude]

hey, i'm keeping to the radioshack theme! haha

[redshift]

Did you settle on a name yet?

I'm thinkin' Frankenboat, or FrankenFrigate (just sounds vulgar), maybe the 'Shack Monstrosity... or Hell Raft.

Like any of those?