Remote control boats on OSO
 

Has anyone purchased any boats from the link on the OSO home page?
http://www.wowzzers.com/index.php?cP...FRLhxgodQQVFpw

I have had my run ins with gas models and I do not have the patients to deal with them. I would like to buy an electric one if they have one that is fast. Anyone have any experience? With the price of fuel I need another option for my Saturdays!:D

I have been into RC boats for over 10 years, I am sorry but you get what you pay for. Any ready to run that claims 25 mph and costs less than $500.00 will result a waste of money. If the add says 25 MPH, divide it by 4 for the actual real speed. I have a 40" cat with a 23cc two stroke engine at 12,000 rpm that does 26 MPH, total cost of materials for me to build this from parts was about $800.00 I am not slamming the advertersizer as all these "plastic" boats claim outragous speeds because the average guy has no way to verify them, I use a small hand held GPS on mine and the boat has to be big enough for the weight of the GPS to not affect the speed. I verify RPM with a very light weight two stroke rpm meter that has a lead that raps around the spark plug wire. Your best bang for speed is a nitro like ProBoat's 1/12 scale hydro, I believe it does about 30 to 35 mph. You will need to throw away the prop that comes in the kit and get one that is sharpened and balanced by a pro (bonze or ss is what I use). The ProBoat 1/12 sells for about $350.00. If you want to go faster than 35 you will need to either build it yourself or you will need to buy a custom rig by one of the good builders such as warehouse hobbies, bonzi boats, etc. As for really fast electrics, the best ones use the brushless motors that cost about $300 just for the motor, then you need the cells, high amp speed control that is water cooled, good fiberglass or carbon fiber hull, radio gear, and running gear with pro-polished sharpened prop.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_109/tt.htm

I bought my son the little super vee 27 - Fun little brushless electric but only last about 6 - 10 minutes.

I have a 25-30" Tunnel boat with a 3.5 cc K&B nitro motor and it runs about 30mph...

What about the new brushless electric boats? They seem to haul azz.

The brushless electrics are quite fast. Out of the box, the Pro Boat Blackjack 26 Brushless will run at least 30mph on nimh batteries. If you use li-pos's probably more like 35mph at a minimum. Same with the Aquacraft Supervee. Both also cost less than 300 buck less batteries, and have fiberglass hulls.

I would not want to guess as to speed with that combination. If I recall, each twin engine is 7 HP total but there is a ton of weight due to the twins twins. total 14 HP,

I do know that you would have a significatly faster boat if you used two (2) QuickDraw 35cc engines at 8 HP each with each engine less weight than the twin cylinder set up. 16HP, Quickdraws go for about $1,500 each so...costs go up.

One typical engine supplier
http://www.bhhanson.com/Marine%20Eng...uct%20Line.htm

http://www.quickdrawengines.com/sample_41Y/Page_1x.html
just look at the photo on the first page, this is a model doing about 90 mph. Also there is video of models with their 35cc and 25cc engines hauling azzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!:evilb::evilb::evilb::ernaehru ng004::ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:


From Bonzi's web site the twin 25cc engine "weighs less than 7 lbs, I would say add clutch and you got 7.5 Pounds easy more like 8 lbs, the 35cc single with clutch at 8 HP would weigh about 5.8 pounds (from Marine Specialities website).

Zenoah's are cute, but for real power you gotta go Qickdraw. No I do not have any interest in the company, but I have purchased every other motor out there trying to avoid the $$$$ of the Quickdraw only to be disappointed. I have a 23cc Zenoah, a 33CC MHZ, and a 40CC Polini (from MHZ that was supposed to be 10 HP, but I bet it couldn't pull past 6 on the dyno, it is also heavier than all get out).

If I were to buy the 84" hull, I would install twin 35 cc Quickdraws on each side, I bet you would NOT be able to hold the throttle all the way open...but that is too much cost for me...I would love to see one of youse guys with really deep pockets build a big rocket ship out of that hull.

A friend and I run Traxxis Villan EX boats. Think they were about $400 each or so for the whole set up. Fun little plastic electrics. Not sure of top speed. Twin battery packs last about 30 minutes regular use...10-15 if you're heavy into the throttle.

with the supervee 27 as mentioned above is well worth the money and is actually pretty quick ......with good batteries it will run probably above 50 mph

Hey Gino, check out this forum for fast electrics.

http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/

Sick!!

More sickness!

:ernaehrung004:

Baby 6's....WHAT!?

Turbine power :evilb:

http://www.jetcatusa.com/images/spm5.jpg

http://www.jetcatusa.com/

I have a pretty bad azz canopied electric model that is twin motor/twin battery and it runs WEEEELL over 25 mph and was under 400. I can't remember who built it. I'll post a pic later.

the Traxxis boats are pretty good bang for the buck. They're like 250-300 with everything and go about upper teens to 20 mph I'd say.

I had some great experiences with Bonzi. Mr. Hoffmann is a great guy and a pleasure to work with. Stay away from Blackhawk Hobbies. He'll take your money and never deliver. I mean NEVER deliver. Alot of people have been taken by him, I was almost one of them untill I got my credit card company involved.

Great Hobbie and alot of fun.

Aquacraft supervee 27 here. We have them dialed in pretty good. I'll have to throw in the gps and see what it's doing. I'm almost ready to pull the trigger on this new aquacraft 51" gas
http://www.aquacraftmodels.com/boats/aqub43-main.html

I have the Proboat 40. I am not sure which length it really is. I have had it for a couple years.

It has the 26cc zennoah.

It is sick fast. They advertised 55mph. I think it is probably pretty close.

The cheap chineas ones suck though. I have one of those also, and I think it might go 5mph, snd it has a 25cc engine in it also.

Check this out.. :)

http://www.rcisland.com/hydroplane.html

Hey Tank,
I need a little benz boat. Who ca make one for me? I love those!!

Gino,
There are several places. I'll get back to you later, got to go. Check the thread from a couple of weeks ago on show your RC boats. It has a great twin cylinder twin engine cat on there from up here in GR. I do not recommend electric due to the run time, recharge time. A single engine gas (not nitro) boat with a gear box and dual drives will look exactly like your cat. Make sure there is a clutch and water pump. If not too modified it will run 50+mph all day and start every time just like a weed whacker. A Zenoah, slightly modified at 26.4cc from several places will do the job. The Quickdraw is better for power but will need a rebuild sooner and be a little more tempermental. Several builders could do the boat for you. A few might do it for cost if they could use it and your big cat in promotional materials. I will get you more information later.

I bought a yellow Rio 51, it is a lot of fun. I also bought a 3 blade prop for it that helped the performance quite a bit. The only complaints that I have, was it took a little while to get the carb dialed in and it can be a little bit of a pain to start.

But, now that I have everything adjusted and have a "system" for starting it, it is a blast.

All I need to do now is run it against my Blackjack 55 and see which is faster!!!!!!!

This 44" Avenger is the hull I think is closest to your boat. I have attached the link and picture. Remy there is a decent guy. I raced one of their Sprint Cats for years and still have it. It is a very fast and good handling hull. With a mod Quickdraw and no clutch I could run in the high 60's in race trim. I also raced a couple of their V hulls and they are also well built and handle good. Held 4 world records with them back in the old days.

http://www.aeromarinerc.com/


This is the link for MHZ USA who has the #6 drives, gearbox, etc. If you really want a duplicate to the final details.

http://206.206.85.209/xtdoc/default.aspx?store=mhzusa


Here is the link to the RC thread I was talking about. Check Tom's cat and XXX on there plus others.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...light=rc+boats

Any other questions let us know.