yeeharacing

We had a blast today.
The wind was a little gusty when we first showed up but as the sun began to set the wind died out allowed some fast passes.
John (45deepvee) had his 60" cat out there running pretty fast and pulling of some jetboat style spins and turns. He looks to have the right prop now and the boat is getting faster with each run. He had a few wild blow overs this afternoon but the prize goes to Crazy Otto.

Kevin (Crazy Otto) entertained us with his aerobatics in his super fast airplane... uh sorry boat. His drifter looks to be about setup another few runs and he should be ready to lean it out and see what it will really do. The 74" demon boat lived up to its name this afternoon and broke on its second run. Seems like it may have toasted a collet. This boat is super loud and mean sounding. Once the right prop is found for this thing it will truly be a spectacle to watch.

Nick (JerseyNick) was there also this afternoon with two boats, a very nicely detailed Vee he found on ebay.. with a race motor. The boat was scary fast. He was working some bugs out of it handling wise but I believe he's got the idea of what to do now it's just making the adjustments. His Miss Elam proboat hydro was experiencing some throttle linkage issues all day. It got wet for a few moments but was quickly brought back to shore do to a missing washer on the throttle linkage. Efforts were made to get the linkage fixed but the boat wasn't destined to see the water again today.

Me, I was pit man and designated launcher and catcher as my boat was in pieces still in my trunk. I help them all start up and launch the boats. I would have loved to run with them but I still had a blast.

BIG THANKS from everyone go out to 45deepvee for makeing the two farthest retrievals of the day. John had to swim pretty far out to push the drifter and the deepvee back into shore.

My family and I had a great time today guys thanks.

Saw this on another thread may make a great retrieval boat. I'm sure John will chip in

Many pictures to follow I'm sure.

45deepvee

i got a few pics. not to great but some pretty good. got kevins blow over, few shots of the crazy joe. yet again i didnt get shots of my boat. lol.

jerseynick

Thanks again for your help! Turned out to be a nice day of running. I with your and johns help I fixed Miss Ellstrom and am ready to get it back in the water! I hope today insipred you to finish your boat!!!!

crazyotto

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for some reason every time a picture is posted of my boat the camera guy has taken a picture of my boat with the camera upside down[sm=bananahead.gif]

crazyotto

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rick also , thanks for commin down today had a blast with you guys and tell the wife and kid it was a pleasure to meet them , (in tow)

jerseynick

You need to put wings on your boat!

crazyotto

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i need to slow down [8D]

crazyotto

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picture of my cat right side up ....lol

45deepvee

i need to stop swimming

crazyotto

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dude you are gonna be an olympic swimmer by summers end ...lol

45deepvee

im buying a row boat

yeeharacing

Well I plopped the boat on the dinning room table tonight and started working on it.

I'm out of state next weekend but I'll be back the Tuesday so hopefully I can get this up and running before the next time I see you guys.

crazyotto

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good thats your home work for the week ....get to work

yeeharacing

I'll probably work on the radio box today.

yeeharacing

John,
Did you hook up with our personal photographer yet...
It looked like he had some awesome shots of everyone's boats.

45deepvee

he looks for us. normally well do a tune day on wednesday, then meat up and run saturday nights. wednesdays me and kevin run but i beleive nicks gonna run with us this week so we can fix the leaning tower of smokin joe. i need to test soem props, liek my 5 blade. and kevin is gonna run the drifter and tune it bit more i think.

we will see him. within a few days.

yeeharacing

Tell Nick to switch the turn fin blades and see what happens...
Also he needs to drop that right tab so it's just a hair below the running surface.
This should keep the tab running on top of the water and keep it from trying to do barrel rolls.

I swear I saw it do a complete barrel roll on Saturday and keep on going like nothing happened.

I wonder if a skeg'd strut would help him out on that boat.

He's got so much torque that he needs to counter act that some how the only way I can think of is to drop the right tab and leave the left were it is.
The other thing is the bigger blade on the turn fin on the right might help hinder the rolling effect.

yeeharacing

must be an echo in here...

45deepvee

turn fin wont counter act the rolling torque. itll help in turns but itll just stab the water and wotn counter act the torqe effect.

he has to mess with the trim tabs and set the level first. the fins will only grab in the turns and keep it form slidign on the surface.

once he sets the trim tabs ( im gonna set em how i had mine set on my yellow boat) he should be fine. well have ti runngin level this wednesday. thats boats gonna be my project to make run straight.

nwo hes got a zen with sorta small prop. imagine mine with my sikk and a octura x482 [X(]

Hiaboo

Beautiful boats. I'm jealous! Nobody here in this whole town (Chatham, MA) runs boats (RC, not full scale..) or whatnot.. I may be the only one!! Scary thought!! Wish I could afford a gas model - They are so much bigger and cooler, I absolutely love how they look.

crazyotto

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thank you for your kind words we all take alot of pride in our builds and it is nice to hear positive reinforcment

dobermanrage

What town are you guys running in? I'm looking for a new place to run. Thanks Chris

yeeharacing

No where right now.
We are trying to get permission to run on a lake in Lacey but we were kicked off the lake by the police last weekend.

Ultimate48

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That sucks, I was looking forward to running with you guy's . I hope you guy's can get it worked out with the town.

Just like flying R/C planes, some one has to complain. You just can't have good harmless fun any more !

Well sorry to hear about this and I hope you get it worked out !

Steve

jerryrusso

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HI IM JERRY I WOULD LIKE TO RUN WITH YOU GUYS
WHERE IS THE LAKE THAT YOU RUN AT
CALL ME AT 1-609-213-5337