post rescue rigs here

[pescador]

i seen some where somebody had one made from a boogie board looked very interesting anyone else ever seen this

The links are in my earlier post #4

Here's the Villain rescuing a Deuce

[yogi]

here is my rig, just finished it yesterday, kinda overkill but it has a ton of thrust and turns on a dime, works well just pushes too much water, working on revision #2, would be nice to have something that will get to the crash site quickly...

[FE Wannabe]

In revision #2 try lifting the crossbar pieces with an arch to get your electronics off the water and that rescue boat should move very quickly. You will probably need to lengthen your drive train to reach your outdrives since they will be mounted lower.
I had the same water pushing issue with my first version.

You might want to use a 45 degree fitting at the front of your sponsons to prevent pushing water against a flat surface.

You might even get that beast on plane!

[yogi]

In revision #2 try lifting the crossbar pieces with an arch to get your electronics off the water and that rescue boat should move very quickly. You will probably need to lengthen your drive train to reach your outdrives since they will be mounted lower.
I had the same water pushing issue with my first version.

You might want to use a 45 degree fitting at the front of your sponsons to prevent pushing water against a flat surface.

You might even get that beast on plane!

Yea that would be sweet lol, thanks for the input, i had somthing like that in mind BTW awesome job on ur rig with the lift! That thing is badace

[koshokid]

how does the gaff work? do you attach something to it?

The gaff (or "floating grappling hook" as I would describe it to others) comes with about 6' of fishing line. Simply attach one end of the line to the gaff and the other end to the ass-end to any boat ever made. Then drag the gaff around the downed boat once or twice and come back to shore. The gaff has hooked the downed boat on the first try for me every time so far. I added a special tow-hitch off of the end of my mini-c so the line doesn't get pulled into the propeller. I'll try to get some video of it in action this weekend. It's a faster setup for retrieving a downed boat than these huge, cumbersome water-plow-rescue-craft-monstrosities and like I said the whole setup fits in my boat tool bag. All you need is the $24 gaff and ANY boat.

I have a huge, rediculous PVC water-plow-rescue-craft-monstrosity that I made and I MUCH prefer my mini-c and baby duck gaff setup.

[FE Wannabe]

I likewise have drug my boats from behind using another boat or a fishing line and the problem I have is that I end up submerging the boat needing to be rescued more and causing it to possibly take on more water. That is why I designed the lift.

Plus have you tried to rescue a "nose up" partially submerged boat with the gaff or a push type boat. All I can say is it is not easy to do.

I use my rescue boat for our boat club so I have to be able to rescue various sized boats in any condition.

The speed of my PVC rescue boat would probably rival a stock mini C especially with it dragging a floating grappling hook behind it. After all I have over 5 lbs of thrust pushing it with dual EDFs.

It is large, but I have plans to attach wheels to it and use it as a dolly to transport all of my boating gear including the boats to the lakeside as well. It still fits in the back seat of my car.

In my humble opinion, a rescue boat should be a single purpose vehicle otherwise you will end up using it as a play boat and it will get flipped or stalled, then what do you do?

Regardless of how you rescue a boat, the best way is to always do it is from shore. Far too many people have lost their lives trying to swim to a boat that appeared to be "close enough". There have even been people that have died going out to rescue an RC boat in an inflatable boat that had accidentally deflated or got hit by another RC boat.
Rescue boats or other devices can save lives.

[dano1]

very well said....and its fun to rescue with the boats!!

[koshokid]

FE Wannabe - You have a lot of good points here and for the record, your rescue boat is the best I've seen. I haven't yet had a "nose up" boat situation while I've had the gaff so I couldn't say how well that particular rescue works with the gaff. Does your lift lower to 2' below the surface for rescues of that nature or do you just push those in?

I understand where you're coming from about having a single purpose rescue boat, I just can't justify me taking the time to load up my 4' rescue rig every time I want to spend 10 minutes on the water. Honestly, I'd rather have to retreive my mini-c by throwing my tennis ball on a string at it. Oddly enough, the rx/tx range on the mini-c is about the same range as my throwing arm.

Either way, I think we can all agree with this:

Regardless of how you rescue a boat, the best way is to always do it is from shore. Far too many people have lost their lives trying to swim to a boat that appeared to be "close enough". There have even been people that have died going out to rescue an RC boat in an inflatable boat that had accidentally deflated or got hit by another RC boat.
Rescue boats or other devices can save lives.

[FE Wannabe]

FE Wannabe - You have a lot of good points here and for the record, your rescue boat is the best I've seen. I haven't yet had a "nose up" boat situation while I've had the gaff so I couldn't say how well that particular rescue works with the gaff. Does your lift lower to 2' below the surface for rescues of that nature or do you just push those in?

I understand where you're coming from about having a single purpose rescue boat, I just can't justify me taking the time to load up my 4' rescue rig every time I want to spend 10 minutes on the water. Honestly, I'd rather have to retreive my mini-c by throwing my tennis ball on a string at it. Oddly enough, the rx/tx range on the mini-c is about the same range as my throwing arm.

Either way, I think we can all agree with this:

I agree with you as well, that PVC beast can be awkward to store and transport.
I need to find a way to be able to break it down and assemble it quickly.

I have the ability to lower the basket up to 17" below the water line which should suffice for most nose up rescues as none of the boats we run are normally longer than 34-36".

I think a rescue boat thread should be made a Sticky so that beginners don't have to learn a lesson the hard way.

[dano1]

Apache proboat rescue rig

I kept it pretty simple and made the pvc part of the hull, never planned on doing anything else with this boat.......best one in the whole fleet, never have had to work on her...lol

[SweetAccord]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu0cDlYj5Vg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[wrongway]

My Rig

I guess I'm just not as cool as you guys!!
Paddle boat

[Jesse J]

Here's my rescue barge in action. all scratch built, running a 60T crawler motor direct drive to stearable outdrive and a 40A proboat ESC. It is the boat that has the most wet time of the whole fleet. It also fits right behind my driver's seat with the forks on the floor and leaning against the back seat, wedging it up in the air - very convenient and goes every trip. Construction foam and styrene tub - unsinkable, and pvc with pool noodle for booms. The lid keeps water out. I am still thinking on how to upgrade it, but it keeps working and saving FE pilots' lives.

[monojeff]

I am trying to figure out a cheap motor & esc combo for a recovery boat I am wanting to build.

What would be a cheap brushless or brushed combo to go with??
Would like to be able to recover gas boats too so would need to be a decent amount of power as gas boats are heavy!

[wrongway]

Cheap motor

I put a aquacraft 550 brushed motor and a used 35amp esc
in a sv27 with a 42mm rio ep prop. It runs rather well. Put a cooling coil on the
motor but it doesnt seem to need it! Runs about 15 minutes on a 3cell 3300 lipo.
The esc I am using can be used with Nimh or Lipo by a jumper change. Total investment of
60.00.