Derek's Dad's Scratch Built 1/6 Scale Boat

[pvolcko]

Always wanted to build a full scale personal submarine. Family has all kinds of boats in it, but never have I seen a personal submersible.

[Graham Lawrie]

Submarine:) hmmmmm............

[Tony]

Fpv sub of course... Now there's a challenge

[west0618]

GREAT DAY at the park...aside from the scorching sun...and the rock I clipped with a propeller. Still PLANES, Mini COOPERS and BOATS...what more could you ask for with minimal damages. Even if I bent the drive shaft the total damages for today would be just over $14.00. This boat is now running at 75% throttle. We were going to run at 100% also but the rock had other ideas.
Please enjoy this small segment of Derek and my outing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb5eLBt ... e=youtu.be

[Derek]

Yeah, it was a great outing with Dad. The boat was going long very well until that unfortunate event. Repairs will be made and the boat will be back.

[Tony]

that was a sudden ending, and that poor lass is getting a good soaking...lol... nice boat though, goes along really well

[pvolcko]

That looks like some fun there. Do they make impeller setups to simulate jetski propulsion? hmmm....

[Stambo]

That looks like some fun there. Do they make impeller setups to simulate jetski propulsion? hmmm....

You mean something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=43&v=UliAeLNM4ho

[Graham Lawrie]

That was very cool:) Now a boat or submarine????

[west0618]

This boat is a lot of fun to run and I have gotten over the fear of it sinking...for the most part. It is not a rough water craft by any means but it does very well in our local ponds. I've been invited to a private pond that I still have to check out so my background may change from time to time from these three previous ponds.
For now enjoy my latest outing from earlier today with my wonderful wife on the camera. Still running at 75% for now as she had troubles keeping up with it at 100%. That and it is a bear in the corners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r-JACb ... e=youtu.be

[Derek]

Real smooth, Dad!!!

[Graham Lawrie]

Very cool:) how blonds in Indiana wash their hair LOL:)

[west0618]

OK, I'm out again...solo...so the camera is simply setting on a 3" tripod at the waterline. I did splash the camera once before I was done. I just wanted to get a reasonably accurate run time on two 1000 mAh batteries running reasonably hard at MAX 60% throttle. I got a good 10-11 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HzIDko ... e=youtu.be

[Graham Lawrie]

looks like fun:)

[Derek]

It's a pretty sweet boat, Graham! It has lots of "get up and go".

[Graham Lawrie]

I may be tempted:)LOL

[west0618]

Well, after hitting more than a few underwater rocks with my first boat I found a noticeable crack in the keel just ahead of the stuffing tube. Once I got all the water out of it, there was quite a bit of sanding to rough up the paint and sealer on the wood. then I was able to lay up two layers of fiber glass across the whole of the bottom and the aft plate.

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She seems to run as good as before with little added weight. This was our first chance to get in the water and, for being the 2nd of November, it could not have been nicer. All we needed was T shirts and jeans. No coats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPCVJd ... e=youtu.be

[DOG]

Doesn't you're wife get mad at you for letting your girlfriend drive your boat? That's a nice little water skimmer.

[Derek]

That's really good, Dad! Nice job!

[Graham Lawrie]

Doesn't you're wife get mad at you for letting your girlfriend drive your boat? That's a nice little water skimmer.

LOL Nice one:)