Skippies and Kiwis

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great idea.. could you swim if it sinks ?
Trim some weight out of the hull for more runtime, m8.....

A good captain goes down with his ship but bugger that. I do have a PFD (might even have an STD after last night) and I can swim but not like I used to. Mate I have trimmed 22 kg's off this hulk of mine over the last year and losing it at about 1/2 kg a week at the moment. I walked 2.6 kilometers today without a stop. Before the diet 50 meters was the usual distance I could walk before stopping and waiting for the pain in my heart to go. Using a lot less Anginine tablets and my pain killers for my knees has gone down from 7 a day to 3 a day. Me and the orange canoe will go a lot faster and further if I lose another 20 kg's.
Enjoyed the video of the rigger using the Entropy batteries.

[TINY]

Took my rescue sit on canoe to the lake today and tested it with the new electric outboard. Man did I have to hang on as it accelerated up to its 3.5 kph top speed. Water skiing next week when I get a driver.
Seriously it was a real pleasure to sit back and do 6 laps of the lake and barely hear the motor. I ordered a deep cycle battery for it today and I am thinking of moving the electrics to a more convenient place.
Top speed was 3.5 kph on the high setting and 2.5 kph on the low setting. The motor has only 18 pounds of thrust so with a bigger motor the speed would go up by quite a bit but run time would come down also. I guess we all know the speed versus run time issue. I do think in the future a bigger motor might find it's way onto the side of this little boat.

Are you serious??? my inflateable boat has a minn kotta 88pd thrust on two retired kiwi mobility scooters... On 24volt it cruises at 6kph, i also used the missus hair drier to get some more pitch..lol
silly yanks and kiwi's, thank god you were not trying to out run an alligator or a drunk bunch of fluffy kiwi's???? Thank god it's a big swim to oz.....!!!!

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Are you serious??? my inflateable boat has a minn kotta 88pd thrust on two retired kiwi mobility scooters... On 24volt it cruises at 6kph, i also used the missus hair drier to get some more pitch..lol
silly yanks and kiwi's, thank god you were not trying to out run an alligator or a drunk bunch of fluffy kiwi's???? Thank god it's a big swim to oz.....!!!!

I was using the wife's hair dryer to inflate my blow up doll but the damn thing started to lift me off the ground with all that hot air in it.

[egneg]

Paddy, I see that you could put twins on that canoe.

[drwayne]

Are you serious??? my inflateable boat has a minn kotta 88pd thrust on two retired kiwi mobility scooters... On 24volt it cruises at 6kph, i also used the missus hair drier to get some more pitch..lol
silly yanks and kiwi's, thank god you were not trying to out run an alligator or a drunk bunch of fluffy kiwi's???? Thank god it's a big swim to oz.....!!!!

88lb ?.. that's not shabby.. only 6kmh.. ?
The kiwi mobility scooters were retired, or used by retired kiwis ? haha

Paddy has plans to charge up all his lipos and cruise to the big island up North ( Australia ) and meet some of his peers.
Though at 3kmh Ive several months before I need restock the minibar .....
W

Here is David's Entropy fueled rigger.. 2 x 6S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdMuBRGDua0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Paddy, I see that you could put twins on that canoe.

Working on a set of twins at the moment Chuck.

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An update on my new Xzess 2 hull but first a recap on how the boat is stacking up against the old hull...

Old hull
Xzess 2 hull, Neu 1515 0.5 Y, 2s lipo, Andym special X642 prop, Hydra 240 lv = 91.3 kph or 56.73 mph

New hull
Xzess 2 hull, Neu 1515 0.5 Y, 2s lipo, Andym special X642 prop, Hydra 240 lv = 94.7 kph or 58.84 mph

Whats new
I have improved the speed a little by using an M545 prop...
Xzess 2 hull, Neu 1515 0.5 Y, 2s lipo, Andym special M545 prop, Hydra 240 lv = 95.6 kph or 59.4 mph

Andy has suggested making some narrow ride pads for the sponsons and as I have a spare set of sponsons on the old hull I will experiment with those. I have ideas of narrowing the overall width of the sponsons sometime in the future too so breaking the 60 mph barrier on 2s is no longer a pipe dream for me. Props should give me more speed yet too. AOA is another thing I can experiment with too as this boat no longer has a blow over problem.
While on the subject of speed on a 2s lipo I must say how pleased I was to see Brian Buaas break 100 mph. That is an incredible speed on such a small battery and shows me how much I have to learn yet.

[Flying Scotsman]

Brian is a genius at setting up a boat and mangling props.

Douggie

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Brian is a genius at setting up a boat and mangling props.

Douggie

He has something I don't... BRAINS

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On 3s this morning





The old hull did 121 kph on 3s but on a different day and different conditions this hull could top that.
Imagine what it would do if I was using good batteries!!! I mean everyone says Turnigy batteries are rubish

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Hopefully this is going to give me more speed or I will have ruined a perfectly abused set of sponsons...

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Moving right along...

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Rough as guts but strong as a Bank safe...

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The first sponson is almost done...

[drwayne]

I think it is time someone posted again.