I am new to RC boats, or I should say I might be. I fly RC electric planes mostly but am interested in boats as I have lakes and ponds everywhere. Anyway here is what I had in mind to try, I have the plans to scratch build a hydro boat, one of those 3 -D flying boats, I want to build it up more solid than it's meant to be and make sure it's water tight, then my idea is to install 2 EDF 55 motors on it and using 1 servo to control a rudder, I am thiniking about powering it with either a 9.6 1100 ma nimh or a 3S 1300 lipo, I know the lipo would kill the motors fairly quick though. I guess I'm wanting to know if it would work and be able to get any real speed on the water or would it be a dog. Has it been tried.
Thanks for any thoughts on this and sorry if this seems ,,, well,,, a stupid idea

No, it's not a stupid idea. Maybe I'm saying that because I had thought about something along those lines
I understand about what you mean when you want to build something heavier as it doesn't look like they could take much of a hit.
You might want to bring this up over at the airboat forum or else I can move this one if you want me to.

Thanks Ron, I was looking there as well just wasnt sure what catagory it would fall into, Can you just delete this post and I'll post something over on the air boat forum
Thanks