thanks about the lake. That is Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is about 20 miles long and about 2 miles wide. There is a huge float fly at the end of the lake every yr. I was running my boat at my parent's cabin up there and in the morning the lake is dead calm. Great place to run trials where things might go wrong because there are not a lot of ppl up there. As for the turning, on my radio i have the second engine on the elevator channel and the first on the engine channel. When starting i run them individually, so that i can rev/tune each engine seperately, but then i can have both controlled by the single engine channel when i am running it out on the water, for low speed i was experimenting with the variable thrust bit, it's a bit tricky though. And actually as you can see in one of the pics it will run pretty well slowly on one engine and full rudder over.