i am new to boatind looking to get a boat. At first i was looking atthe traxxas blast and rioep but decided to go withsomething brushlessand was seriously concidering getting the proboat shockwave brushless but from what i read it appears that have or had issues with esc on those. I was wandering if they are still having those problems with the esc's frying. Also been looking at the aquacraft supervee and was wandering if it would be a good choice.

SV 27 all the way! Personally I wouldn't touch a Spartan for one reason, the plastic hull. I just can't see a fast boat with a plastic hull lasting very long. I think they seriously dropped the ball by not going with a fiberglass hull.

I am in the proces of getting my first boat too..Check out the Miss Geico proboat..Thats what im getting..There are lots of good reviews on it..

I agree with husky the spartan hull is not going to last. I read they have a warranty on it for that reason. I agree they should have went FG. 1 or 2 good crashes at 50 and shouldn't take to long before cracks will start to show. I myself started wit a RIO ep which lasted about 2 weeks before I was bored then bought a SV27 which I LOVED. I would buy a older sv27, the new sv27r's are having some issues, for some reason AQ removed the transom doubler and now some stress cracks are apprearing easily on the transom where the hardware mounts. You should be able to find an original sv pretty easy on ebay or over at OSE in the swapshop. They appear every once and a while. The MG is the nicest built RTR I have owned so far to date. Good reading on the SW, as far as I know when the burned ones where getting sent back to Proboat/Horizon Hobby they were suppose to be fixing the esc problems but what i have heard still the same issues. The problems lays in the lipo/nimh switch being faulty or so I read a while ago. They have been having that problem for a while, that esc and motor where used in the Proboat Widowmaker and still they havent fixed it.<div>
</div><div>SV27: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t1ksDActBo</div><div>Miss Geico: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZmdN6FsIs</div>

people just cant accept change it wont matter what it is, you crash it into somthing its going to break lol

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">spartan all the way!!!</span></span>

I have a Shockwave 26 Brushless.  Very nice boat.  If you are ok with low 30s, I say buy it.  The stock esc will only handle 2s.  New esc and you can bump up to 3s, but then the hull is really unstable at those speeds.<div>
</div><div>I really like the boat, and would recommend it if you are not looking for crazy speeds.</div><div>
</div><div>Brandon</div><div>
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