The only electric boat I have seen that picks up a plane is the 12' rowboat with a trolling motor and a diehard that we use. When we have used r/c electrics, we just dragged some line and bobbers behind it, circled the plane to wrap it with lin and tangle a bobber on it, and gently dragged it back to shore. Sometimes we attach the line from a spinning rod to the r/c boat. Using hooks on the R/C electric boat is not real practical, 'cause then it would get snarled on something and we'd have to go get it, or the hook would just rip holes in somebody's moneykote anyway.