Thanks Doc for your wise advice. I can imagine that making a general instruction manual on RC electronics would be a bit difficult, because there so are many possibilities... Nevertheless I greatly appreciate your extensive comment. Allow me to add a few detailed questions then, since that is perhaps easier:

1) "keeping parts dry"

I would install some sort of sealable 'tupperware' box in the hull to put in the receiver business. Would anything else have to be in there, e.g. the receiver's battery, my ESCs? Any other special considerations on water-protection?

2) As I read from your Wyeforce adventure (great post, by the way): did/do you leave open a hatch or floor panel of the rear deck to access the engines and rudder servo or do you glue down the deckpanel completely once you tested the functionality of the "engine room"? If you keep that hatch removable, how do you keep it down during sailing? My tug-boat "Al Khubar" from the same Model Slipway is pretty similar.


For the rest, I guess it boils down to trial and error and hoping I do not end up with a toaster instead of a sailing/lighted boat.

Many thanks