What did you do to your boat today?

[fweasel]

Weather here today is miserable, so a bathtub test is about as closet as I might get to boating as well. Might glue up my rescue raft though...

[runningman]

Bath tub test :)


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[zooma]

Took the new vac-u-tug to the lake today for a trial run, ESC wouldn't arm. Awesome. Put the Spartan in next, managed 46mph on the second pass (still painfully unstable and slower than it should be), then ripped the hatch off and killed my GPS. Put the last boat in the water, after I slipped on the rocks and dropped it. Cracked the hull. I need a beer.

Wow, at least you got home safely. Hope you had a second beer.

[MG1234]

There is a red 2" plastic tape used in construction,available at any hardware that works great ,that's what I started with ,now I use the 1" tape from OSE with good results ,I had the hatch pull off a few times when I got my first spartan ,

[fweasel]

Just for clarification, the traditional taping of the hatch method is pretty useless on the Spartan because of the gaps and countours. I'm proposing a full on moving box style wrap around the whole she-bang

[MG1234]

10/4 on those rocks,well I wanted more speed from my Zonda so I lifted the struts 1-2 mm,was faster but then blew over,trying to get my fighter cat more stable,goes bonkers when I pin it ,I'm thinking the props are too aggressive ,learned the hard way to tape the hatch on a spartan or any boat ,just take a minute to tape it and save lots of trouble,my rescue boat is a small traxxas that has a 10' string with a piece of foam tied on the end ,works really well,learned about it on this forum,

[fweasel]

Took the new vac-u-tug to the lake today for a trial run, ESC wouldn't arm. Awesome. Put the Spartan in next, managed 46mph on the second pass (still painfully unstable and slower than it should be), then ripped the hatch off and killed my GPS. Put the last boat in the water, after I slipped on the rocks and dropped it. Cracked the hull. I need a beer.

[Tamelesstgr]

My Aquacraft 2030kv regularly pulls 75-90 amps, 120amp shoukd be minimum esc.

[silvr_tung_devl]

That looks like a little over AMP'ed
What motor is that?

Larry

thats a 9yr old Electrifly Ammo 36-56 1800kv rated at 50a cont. 90a burst, esc is an 80 amp.....might have held the burst a little too long......

[Prodrvr]

Can you dial down the sensitivity on the steering controls?

If your radio has expo adjustment.

[TRUCKPULL]

Found the reason why my motor quit on me. its a shame too....boat was running fast!!!

That looks like a little over AMP'ed
What motor is that?

Larry

[silvr_tung_devl]

Found the reason why my motor quit on me. its a shame too....boat was running fast!!!

[stratus]

https://www.mscdirect.com/browse/tnp...FdgYgQod4JoDtA

Thanks

[Tamelesstgr]

https://www.mscdirect.com/browse/tnp...FdgYgQod4JoDtA

[stratus]

Take a photo of the product u using when u can pls