Hello Guys and Gals,
I am an airplane guy....but I have a few boats...(5 gas...4 electric scale)
This project all started with the wife and I going camping...at a place I could not fly....but could run boats. So we ran boats....the electric scaleish stuff.
An older lady came out and watched and watched...and so I let her run the swordsman around and all was good.
Her husband said "I am buying a boat for her for her birthday!"...we got her a proboat volare...very fast (too fast)...and very pretty (the husband got a little protective of the boat!)
I said to myself I will build her a boat ...and looked around the net for plans...and found push tug plans....scale ones.
Well, after some building here is where I am....It is a 1.5 times push tug....and this is what it looks like. It was expensive...I had to put in a new floor for my wife to get the left over underlayment to build it!.... The motors were expensive....two 550 motors given to me by a car guy...and a radio put together from parts given to me from the local hobby shop guy (rebuilt the short in the transmitter...fixed a reciever that went underwater in a car?...it works great!)

So I have 6 bucks in it so far (besides the new floor)....

The question is ...will two water cooled 550 motors be "OK" for this project???? They will be water cooled...I am not looking for speed...or pushing power...just a couple of cheap motors to push the tug. Things have to be simple....trying to stay away from gear drives etc...we are talking about a couple of 70 year olds here...think low maintenance...lol..

Thanks for your support...Steve