RE: What causes this?
I put one of these in a zig zag racer. if you've gotten less than a few boats running well - or if you want it to run well - then I'd say it's not a good move..
But if anyone is curious about the experiment, the hull has a fixed negative prop angle so once you start developing enough thrust to do some impressive speed, it tends to stuff the nose in a nearly self destructing dive/crash. It's really stupid fast. It's not big enough to carry - or stable enough to trust - putting my GPS but I'd guess it runs up to 25MPH fun and stable at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle.