Hobbyking Phantom, can anyone offer any advise or tips on this yacht.

[millzee]

Thanks Danny, your led project has inspired me into a whole new world of opportunities. Instead of working/thinking in the shed building FE's, I'm finding myself hoping for a strong breeze and the sun to go down so I can sit on the lake bank and relax, it means a lot too me.

[JCAustralia]

Those Yatch look like my first Yatch made by a company called Beili. Watch out for binding of the rudder rods and servo. The screws also have a tendency and the sail material to deform.....

Otherwise the fibreglass is ok and should be loads of fun. The above should be easy fixes.

Good Luck.

[drwayne]

Nice video Danny... reminded me of Titanic.. bright lights reflected on the water just before she went down ( the ship )
I set a strobe under an rc steam tugboat masthead work light ( 2004? ) .. and it was a great effect at night.. lit the pond a ripper

[sailr]

Sweeet! I have a couple of sailboats just begging for the lights!!

[millzee]

cool, I'm glad you boy's like the idea, I must say, I'll always have a shed of FE's but it's real nice to just charge a RX battery and through it out for an hour or so before the sun goes down, then get the lipo's going and enjoy the night. A nights fun relaxing as apossed to a 5 minute fast running is such a nice change of pace for my head.
Doc, I was going to add a kick ass head LED lamp that has a strobe setting to the top of the mast but with that many leds I just don't need it, I may use it on the other yacht as I'm hoping to set that one up with much lighter 3s 2500mAh batt's to keep the weight down being a faster slim line yacht. I'm going to swap the cheap rigging rope with 80lb braid fishing line and I need make some carbon fiber toggle thingys that keep the tension on them as the plastic one keep breaking, these winds have been pretty strong and some sailing has been more about keeping the mast from snapping in 1/2