So you think you gotta a fast boat !

[Fluid]

No, it isn't easy to set high speed records. Joerg's 140 mph record stood for about a decade even though plenty tried to beat it - eventually by 3 mph. And that old record was done with old skool round cells! Too, it took several years to go from 110 to 120 mph with a P rigger.


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[dmitry100]

Man, must of been naive for me to think it was easy to do 100mph even 115mph SAW passes with a Rigger since they're so light and fast almost out of the box.

[grsboats]

I totally agree with Fluid it's the very hard and long work involved with that project that deserved to the Jag's team this magnificent accomplisment.I've been playing with all sort of riggers for more than 20 years and only with the Fe ones I could be in the 100's club four years ago with my own design and top grade components.Looking to Tyler's pic I can see some french influences in that boat.

[gsbuickman]

Wow, now that is way badass & a hell of an accomplishment

[Fluid]

Few commercial riggers are suitable for really high SAW record speeds. AFAIK, all the current record-holding riggers are custom hulls, or modified semi-customs.

The JAE21 can achieve 90s on 4S but above that I doubt it without mods. It isn't power that is the limiting factor. And I doubt it would survive a crash at those speeds without major damage. As as far as GPS "zip-zip" running, 100+ is probably possible.



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[dmitry100]

NativePaul, or anyone else... What hull would you guys recommend to use for a SAW Rigger?

[Erroneous]

Insane!

[NativePaul]

I have a Dr super Evil, it is definitely not a SAWs hull, it is designed for Naviga Hydro2 racing which is endurance racing with limited power (imagine P offshore on an oval course, but on 1p of battery) so it has a LOT of Aero lift to minimise the wetted area in the 55-60mph range, at 80 it would be a plane not a boat.

[Fluid]

The JAG's team designs and builds their own custom hulls, I saw some of them first in ~2000. In the past they used custom ESCs etc. It wasn't batteries which allowed this performance. It wasn't the motor. It was a systematic process taking many years of hard work and experience. Don't expect much useful, detailed info on the boat, setup, etc.



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[martin]

Tyler can you confirm or not that they used Gens Ace batteries, I had heard some where that's what they used. An out standing performance that must go down in history as one of the best achievements ever from a model boat.

[dmitry100]

Tyler, were you there?

What do you think they did different than anyone else?

And also, what kind of hull is that? I was thinking to get an H&M Dr Super Evil rigger but maybe there's better options for SAW riggers.

[RaceMechaniX]

It was that impressive to be there in person and watch it. Everything was calculated and triple checked before the boat was launched. Team JAG's waited till the water was near perfect and then pulled the trigger. What was most impressive was the acceleration. When it hooked up it looked like the speed instantly doubled.

Hats off to Joerg, Arne and Gunnar for pushing the limit right up to 300KPH. I have lots more pics, but need to sort and process them. Here is one shot of the boat with Arne and Gunnar before it was launched.

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Tyler

[dmitry100]

The rigger was running on 8s. Not bad.

Anyone have any other details on the setup?

They're obviously doing something or using special here.

[Zondar]

Had to see video to believe! Hope we will eventually see set up pics up close. Congrats in order!

[martin]

The previous runs was just the warm up runs, this run is 185.576 mph - 298.656 kph.

https://youtu.be/dm4iBEsPfko