Well I finally got the pictures from last Saturday's club meet hosted. I have yet to host the pictures of the other boats that were there running but when I do I will post them. Here are a few of my TS2 running just before the flex shaft broke:
My boat ran awesome and I had it trimmed out perfectly. All was great until yesterday...
My friend and I went to the cove to run out boats. shortly after starting his nitro vee the xtal in the receiver fell out sent his boat screaming across the cove and under a swim dock where it slammed into a float and capsized leaving only the bow above water. We them retrieved the boat and dealt with the electronics and engines properly. This was when I put my boat in the water, bad idea.
My TS2 ran beautifully for about half a tank when without notice the battery door on my tx fell out sending it and 7 rechargeable AA to the bottom of the lake. My boat continued it's path for about 200 yards where it slammed into a rock seawall and continued to rev at full throttle while hung up on some large rocks. After a series of non-repeatable words I ran nearly 500 yards around the cove, through bushes, over lawn chairs, under clothes lines and eventually off the seawall only to find my boat engulfed in steam still running at wot. After quickly splashing it with water the engine died in a cloud of smoke and steam. on closer inspection the right sponson was severely smashed up and crack about 3 inches to the back. The head on the engines was about three shades darker and the propeller was no longer. I stood there in the water for maybe five minutes in disbelief of what happened. finally a woman came down to her dock next to me and said in a disgusted tone, "You know that toy is really annoying". My reply was simple yet effective, " Well it doesn't look like I will be annoying you for a while does it?" She muttered something and left.
Today I sealed all the cracks and fiberglass with CA and applied bondo to the destroyed areas. Then I sanded it to the correct shape and in two hours the boat looked like new. I still haven't fired up the engine but I think it will run. It's safe to say both of us will be dishing out the dough for failsafes in the near future.
Sorry for the epic but I had to tell my story
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Matt