RE: caribbean cruiser
At first, I wasn't very happy with this boat. Megatech talkes it up like it's something special. I bought it off ebay for maybe 30 bucks less than a new one would have cost. The first trip to the pond wasn't good. Max speed was under 10mph and I noticed a loud noise from the gears. Further inspection revealed a stripped drive gear. The seller was cool and gave me some money back to buy a new set of gears. It sat in my work shed for months and one day I decided to try some different gears since I couldn't understand why they would use a 4:1? gear ratio for what looked like stock motors. The Kyosho gears I had from my jetstream looked like they might work but I had to modify the motor mount slightly. I used the 2:1 gears and a pair of new master airscrew 19T motors in series with a 14V ESC and kyosho 2" prop and it runs very nice! Not very fast, about 15mph but the handling more than makes up for it's lack of speed! This boat handles any water conditions and turns like it's on rails. It's immune to waves that would toss my twinstorm around like an eco boat. The motors don't even get that warm and run time is about 15 min. with 3300's. Next trip out I'm putting on a 2.4" metal prop on. This might be overkill but I'll find out soon. Right now, I have the boat apart in pieces... I almost put in a graupner 700 but I think I'm going to leave it alone, I don't want to butcher this boat up too much.