It's never too rough for hydros.

[BobH]

Finally had a chance to play with the 1/8 Pro Boat Formula. A little wind and some rolling chop? Who cares because afterall I'm a professional throttle man who ... ah nevermind. :eek:



Boat was retrieved, drained, up and running a few minutes later.

[DaveC]

Unlimited class submarine...cool.

[Daveo]

Those are some awesome pictures Bob. Did you take them?

[jsears]

That's a great photo!:cool:

[BobH]

Walter took the pix, I was the IAW (idiot at wheel)

I thought I could clear the second swell at the speed the boat was carrying...the tail just caught the wave enough to pitch the nose negative and play submarine. Luckily we had "Rescue 1" along (Pro Boat ShockWave 26) to tow the stalled hull back in.

[JasonC]

:eek:

You take care of my hydro! :D

[WrenchHead]

Looks alot like fun to me. Sweet photos for shore. Later,Wrench.

[BobH]

You didn't want a dirty boat did you?

[JasonC]

True.

Thanks for cleaning it. :D

[Daveo]

OK, not to hijack your thread, but the retrival boat brings up a good point to a problem that I have. My SV27 brushless has a voltage cutoff on the speed control. once the cutoff is reached, the unit needs to have the power cycled to bring it back to life. That being said it has left me stranded waiting for the boat to blow back into shore quite a few times. That is fine on a small lake, but I routinely run the boat on lake michigan. Once it goes out I have to retrive it because the shore it is blowing to is 800 miles away! So how does the retrival boat work. What other methods of retrival are there?
Thnaks

daveo

[DaveC]

I've seen a fishing rod with heavy line and a tennis ball used.

You could get a duck hunter to lend you his Lab.

"hey kid, you a good swimmer? Wanna make $2?"

[BobH]

Ah grasshopper, let me educate you in the ninja ways of the "snag & drag."
We have a tennis ball and cord on the Shockwave but a fishing line and hunk of styrofoam would work just as well. You do a tight turn around the stranded boat and the line grabs around whatevers below the surface (rudder, turn fin, prop). Be careful not to use too much power on the tow boat or it may capsize.

[Daveo]

SOOOO, If I am hearing you right, your are saying is I need to get a new boat!!!!! I am down with that!

[RevoloveR]

OK, not to hijack your thread, but the retrival boat brings up a good point to a problem that I have. My SV27 brushless has a voltage cutoff on the speed control. once the cutoff is reached, the unit needs to have the power cycled to bring it back to life. That being said it has left me stranded waiting for the boat to blow back into shore quite a few times. That is fine on a small lake, but I routinely run the boat on lake michigan. Once it goes out I have to retrive it because the shore it is blowing to is 800 miles away! So how does the retrival boat work. What other methods of retrival are there?
Thnaks

daveo

The simple one is a tennis ball tied to a fishing rod.

-otherwise-

A retrival boat has two floats and a net in the middle so you can straddle the dead boat and tow it back.
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[timtart]

Hello there just wondered how the 1/8 runs I just got a 1/12 miss Budweiser
but trying to get my boyfriend to get a 1/8 formula. But it looks great

[pedeboi364]

^^^^^^ a girl trying to get her BF into rc!!!!!!!!!! i apologize if you are indeed a homosexual man, sorry.

[Taqrin]

I've seen another boat that the guy put a second motor on, just for the retreaval purpose and was set into action with the help of another servo....it would be something like having a trolling motor on a fishing boat.

Although a second boat would be easier......

[pedeboi364]

i'd say to run some kind of cell so that wen the LVC goes you can use the extra cell to drive back to shore...

[Ron Olson]

What he'll do is drive around the dead boat until the tennis ball wraps around something, in his case the rudder, turn fin or strut then pull it back to shore.
I use the 2-man inflatable boats from Wal-mart. They're around $20.00. Add a set of their oars at another $7-8.00 and a 12-volt air pump for another $20.00 or less and I'm set.
If I take it to the pond deflated, I can hook it up to the inflator and it'll be nice and plump before I've got everything else unloaded. OK, I haul a lot of gear. You just have to be careful that nothing sharp hits the boat.
For close-to-shore retrievals I take a fishing pole along with a top-water lure. Some just use a reel and tennis ball but I've got a lousy throwing arm.
PLEASE don't swim after a boat! I can swim OK but I'd rather not, especially if you saw some of the places that I run my boats at. We've lost a few people that thought that they could just swim out and get theirs.
It doesn't hurt a bit to add floatation, even if the boat already has some. Pool noodles do a great job.

[Philderbeast]

Or get the Traxxas boat that has the RTS system. It is a Nitro boat, with an electric motor that will activate, (somehow) when the nitro motor shuts down. You will probly have to flip a switch or something, who knows, not me. But anyway, it is thier largest boat, and it says return to shore in the ad, (or RTS for short).

[Maxx man]

wow sweet pics bob!!!!! I live so close to annapolice and I dont have an rc boat... I may have to fix that...:D

[Ron Olson]

To get Traxxas' RTS system to work you simply push back on the throttle (like reverse or brake on an RC car) and it turns on the electric motor. What it then does is flip a gear over onto the flywheel which is also geared. The trick is that sometimes it works and other times it doesn't as it needs some drag on the armature to kick the idler gear over to the clutch bell.
Hopefully the boat isn't too far away as it relies on the receiver's battery pack to bring it in. With it being geared way down it will bring it in (if it works) very slowly.