42" sprint cat conversion

[Savage Skidoo]

Tomorrow's the maiden voyage all i have left to do is paint it when the weather's warmer i'll post some pic's and a video , can't wait to hang with you all at the bay in the morning .....CHEERS

[Livewire121]

Looking very forward to seeing it myself.

[Savage Skidoo]

Looking very forward to seeing it myself.

Very happy with my 1st three runs................freaken awesome , i hope some of the guys got some video .

[srislash]

Very happy with my 1st three runs................freaken awesome , i hope some of the guys got some video .

Three runs??? Great deal. I am dying to see it go. C'mon video!!!

[Savage Skidoo]

Three runs??? Great deal. I am dying to see it go. C'mon video!!!

sorry for the delay here's one of my runs .

[Savage Skidoo]

Hello guys . On my maiden i had 3 good runs , the next day i go to plug her in to retrieve the data log and POOF up in smoke that crappy Hydra Ice 200 Hv .....just like that . Castle you suck! sorry but no warranty on a brand new item . out now $470 thats what hurts . My bud Brandon Duncan ......can't say enough , he shipped me from Keith Bradley boats a Swordfish 200 Hv . I ran it twice with no Video . I do say it seemed to perform much better , i just need to get use too the throttle response. Ive done a few float tests to see where the waters coming in , i've sealed up some areas in concern . I'm on the pond tomorrow morning for some testing .IMGA0075.jpg

[srislash]

You really have to watch the Castles or any ESC for that matter. I did that with my Fantasm. Ran it in the morn, flipped it, thought it was fine that evening for a run but NO. That was my Flier big ESC. I am trying hard to not touch them for a week(time to dry thoroughly) before firing them again. Even with my waterproofing it still bites me now and again.

[rickwess]

I have a big bag of rice in the basement of the cottage that does wonders sucking water out of damp ESCs.

[Savage Skidoo]

DON"T BUY ANY CASTLE MARINE . NO warranty they still suck ballz ......i am now a CASTLE CREATIONS hater ....out $470 wounld you not be one too!

[Savage Skidoo]

Heres my run from yesterday

[srislash]

Looks good, just watch those takeoffs eh,LOL. Lots o room left for prop tweaking too it sounds like.

[markfs]

What prop are you running?

[Savage Skidoo]

What prop are you running?

It has a x465 on it , the swordfish only gave me one run and sent back to CHINA.I have revamped it now and only running 8s . This still has tons of power and very pleased .

[Fella1340]

It looks great, love the way it picks the nose up high under acceleration! Looks like a lot of fun to run!

[rearwheelin]

To me the nose running high like that is due to the boats thrusting point. It doesn't look right. I would raise your strut up out of the water some and run thrust washers with smaller gap between the drive dog. It looks like your boats trying to flip over needlessly . Appearse the angle of your motor wich is your thrust point if your gap between your drive dog and strut is to big is nosing your boat up. Also could be a reason your esc's aren't lasting because the extra amperage caused by the boats handling.