My advice to you is too suck up the cost and buy a boat that you will have for years. Call Chris at Fine Design or Paul at Fast Electrics RC and either one can hook you up with a really nice hull with a brushless system and lipo batteries. I see people all the time buying several boats that they loose interest in real quick because either it is not fast enough or it handles poorly. They then spend several hundred dollars into making it go faster or handle better, and wind up spending more than if they had just gotten the boat they really wanted from the start. Start looking around at different web sites and all of the hulls that are offered and go from there. Stay away from the Toys-R-Us ABS Chinese plastic stuff, its is really junk.