I haven't thought of this in years, but I think you guys would be interested in it. One day I was at a small lake around here, and this guy comes putting around the corner in a minature tug boat ! I wish I had a camera. he was sitting inside of it ,looking out of a scaled down windshield, he was completely enclosed ...I would guess it was no longer than eight feet, no wider than four foot. And it was all tricked out like a nice scale model . Have you ever seen anything like it ? It was sitting deep like a real one and pushing a big fat wake off the nose as it chugged along...It looked kind of fun actually. Maybe a future project someday....

Sounds cool to me.
I have plans for a boat project:
I have drawings (from Glen-L) of a 11 foot flat-V speed boat, made for 20-35 HP outboard.
I plan to scale down these plans to 50%, and make an RC boat 5,5 feet, but big enough to take one passenger (one of my sons at the time, they are 5 and 7 years old).
So I might need some good tips about powering this boat. Maybe a slow electric motor (2000 rpm) or maybe a Honda GX 31 four-stroke gasoline (7000 rpm).
I also need axle, prop etc.. so... good tips are extremely welcome.
To get an idea: check out glen-l boatplans on the net (www.glen-l.com) , name of the boat is TNT, imagine this one in 50% scale... sounds like fun to me..
Erling, Norway.

I have seen an aircraft carrier that carried two people. And yes they actually landed planes on it.

I did one for the nephews.

The boat is a double bottom construction. All wood is 1/8" Birch. Inside flor & deck stiffeners are cut from light & cheap 2 x 4 scrap. Seats & steering is from a old lawn mower. Trolling motor is mounted in a rear well box. Cut hand control & cables of motor off & mounted it next to the steering wheel of driver. Battery & the RC remote controlling of the power in the boat is under the front deck. Adult on the beach can shut off all power if things go bad with the hand held RC transmitter.

Lost the pictures of the kids motoring around in it with their mom swimming along side.

Rich

you HAD to of been the favorite uncle for awhile.... If I had a little pond out back I would probably sinking a few test boats !! ha ha ha not on purpose, but sometimes experimentation goes like that !

The looks on their faces makes it worth while.

Rich

Probably one of these:

http://www.berkeley-engineering.com/Micro9Tugboat.html

I do believe that is it !

I am in the initial planning stages of a 1/35th scale Idaho (BB-42) that will be some 17 plus feet long. Should be quite challenging
Foo

Challenging, that sounds like a battle in itself !