i was in the local park pond this pm for ts2 testing, it's hot but breezy, water is calm to little ripple perfect for tunnel, drop the engine to make prop line 2 mm just above the C/L, removed all wt., replaced the tuned pipe with stock one to make it quiter coz i'm considerate[:-] to neighbors...launched the boat, ran wet in slow but it planes in hi speed but since the pond is small i can't go to long full blast but it's ok i'm testing the bouncing atittude and not the speed anyway, so boat improved a lot better compare to my previous set-up only with hooking in an agressive turn, bouncing is not a problem at this time, i decided to stay in that prop position and play around the wts. to eliminate hooking, while i'm still in my first tank i'm already impressed by the boat atittude until a weird kind of water movement caught my attention about 5 feet from where i'm standing in the edge of waterline, after lookin' at it..it's a SNAKE[sm=spinnyeyes.gif][sm=sunsmiley.gif] about 3.5 feet coz it's longer than the boat, swimming across to me, so i jumped back just to have a safe distance and uhuump![>:] wanna play with me?... brought ts2 back and ran over[sm=lol.gif] i got him it wiggles a bit and went to other side and got lost, then i was being watchful coz it may show-up again...then continue ranning the boat until i flipped [sm=drowning.gif]it during turn, took time to fish it back...radio box full of water, tried to dry a little and run again until radio went bad..so i call it a day, while packing i got stung by a bee, spill my tool box in a grassy place, so what a day[:@]...i blamed the snake to all of this[sm=lol.gif] but i'm ok coz ts2 ran better...so guys don't play with snake while boating it will bring jinx.