FINALLY !

the Lifeboat is looking more and more complete now, deck railings added, pushpit rails on, lifebelts on, deck painted etc. Still loads more to complete yet.
the ACTION sound system is still pulling the crowds every time I switch it on, People passing the pool have to stop and watch it. Ive tried running the Mersey with the sound system off, but naa ! it has to be On , every time [ha ha].

Er, having a real problem with the server, its loaded the same video clip twice.

MY SINCERE APPOLOGIES !

ADDED WRONG VIDEO CLIP !

this is actually a good old "shovel nose" boat still under construction by a fellow club member and was its first sea trial.

Finaly after many months of searching, found a replacement drive motor for my Sea jet. Appologies for the short video clip, but its gives you enought to see. Absolute total fun to drive !

Bill finally launched his boat. The weather was kind for some of the time so I was able to take some pictures and a short (not very good) video on the water.

This slide show shows the build and final result of my scratch built Seaplane Tender. It is 1/12th scale and powered by 2 x 250 watt brushless motors. Built in 2011, it sails at Knightcote in Warwickshire and Tynemouth in the NE.

This is an Arowana 22.2" mono EP hull, allegedly self righting, however, on it's maiden run i turned it too fast and flipped it, sadly the self righting didn't, and a hatch clip failed, the end result was that after about 40 seconds of being upside down, the back end dissapeared, and it ended up 70% submerged with about 6" of bow pointing towards the sky. I have since had a play in the bath, and cannot get it to self right, also it leaks water from the factory fitted divider for the flood chamber, so not the quality that i thought it was, don't quite know how to rectify that one.

This is a lighter version of my MK1 previously posted, lighter by some 80g, and having a slightly larger prop, i assumed it would be faster, the reality was that the X438 was too much, so will go back to an X435. it ran a bit wet as well, so now i have adjusted the angle of attack on the prop, which should sort things out. The 6 inches of boat tip in the pond was my Arowana 22.5" mono, it flipped and a hatch clip failed, and that was the end result, so i was trying to nudge it in, and i failed, luckily my brother is good with a fishing rod and recovered it.

Graupner Systems Catamaran (Second hand, and refitted) with Leopard 2860 5050kv Motor, It has 2 x 11.1v 4200mAh 50c-100c batteries in parallel, as the motor has a max draw of 120A, The prop is an octura X435 connected to a Prestwich models Strudder.
This was it's Second run, , this run was very successful, the speed took me a little by surprise, hence the expletive (Sorry). I would love to know the actual speed. After a short run, a connection on the electrics came adrift. all repaired and ready to run again now.

Graupner Systems Catamaran (Second hand, and refitted) with Leopard 2860 5050kv Motor, It has 2 x 11.1v 4200mAh 50c-100c batteries in parallel, as the motor has a max draw of 120A, The prop is an octura X435 connected to a Prestwich models Strudder.
This was it's maiden run, and initially i hit the throttle too hard, and made it tail walk. and the coupling came adrift. after a little tighten up, the second run was very successful.