4 prop expresscraft 60inch

[ScarabChris]

Excellent! I love out of the ordinary boats.

[ron1950]

after watching your vid i see u have a fleet of giant boats...must grow em big in VC

[calcagno45]

Very nice choice on electric components! Top of the line is the way to go!

[ojb]

cant wait to see it go top job

[rearwheelin]

Your week is up......video please !

[bedrock]

Randy

Have not got this baby out yet - been windy....... busy at work

will try this week... - Hope she goes - got no idea what speed to expect??

Dean

[andym]

Come on Dean, enough teasing mate. Just be careful when you get the dog to ski behind it !!

[derektheshop]

wow unbelievable great build

[rearwheelin]

Randy

Have not got this baby out yet - been windy....... busy at work

will try this week... - Hope she goes - got no idea what speed to expect??

Dean

I think she should be in the 70 mph range, but she is going to want to move there super fast so watch for a light front end ! Even if your moving at 50 mph + and then hammer it she can get light and a big boat like that can pack some uplift and go over......I have done it a few times trying to pop wheelies ! Its going to get crazy fast !!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. You will need to watch the turns when accelerating through them because the thrust footprint on the transom is wide and the boat has a tendancy to straiten out so don't push it to hard close to a bank ! Late apex then throttle up 3/4 into the turn and watch her fly !

[Old School]

Bringing an old thread back to life. My son recently purchased this bare hull on eBay and it arrived today. Considering the phases this hull has been through with its checkered history, the hull was in surprisingly good condition with nothing major wrong with it. No longer did it have its multiple Scorpion motors or its dual EDF propulsion units. The hull was received bare.

Odd that the hull did not initially receive a gasser motor as the original purchaser fitted the four Scorpions, however, even with no evidence that rails had been fitted, the hull interior looked like a gasser had been used. The interior looks to be greasy as if fuel and oil stained.

As received the upper half of the hull was painted red. Upon removal from its packing the colour turned out to be a painted matte red vinyl overlay and was peeled off extremely easily revealing a hull in surprisingly good condition.

I set about removing some of the blobs of 5 minute epoxy and RTV sealant used to fill in the holes originally drilled for the four struts. It is intended to inlay the hull with a carbon fibre inlay as the hull is surprisingly thin for such a large boat. Remember this is a 60" hull.

My son has sourced Speedmaster 1/4" nitro stingers for it. The plan is to fit the two spare Turnigy (Proteus) T20 motors that I have as well as the 1/4" flexshafts and motor mounts originally purchased for a stillborn project. I have seen a You-Tube video of a similar Expresscraft 60" hull with the same two stingers and performance was more than acceptable. The hull in the video did bounce around a lot like a cork bobbbing on the water so ballast weight with multiple batteries is obviously needed.

I took a couple of images to give an idea of the hull in its current configuration. This, no doubt, will be a long term project. It is good to see that old boats never die.


Edit: I believe that the hull is now called an Expresscaft Supercat.

http://expresscraft.com/supercat.htm

Edit 2: this is the same style hull with different canopy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOgKRUVRKo

[Beaux]

Bada$$ boat. Where did you find the lock down pins for the cowl.?

[Old School]

Bada$$ boat. Where did you find the lock down pins for the cowl.?

The pins were supplied with the hull so unfortunately I have no idea where they were sourced.

[CraigP]

Wow, never seen someone run an RC boat so close to kids in water... I bet I’m not the only one questioning that decision! But a beautiful boat and twin screws look more than enough to get that lady going!

[Old School]

Craig,
there is a part 1 video on his You-Tube site where he goes even closer to the children at even faster speeds before turning about. Nice boat but definately unsafe operating practices. My son advises the motors and ESC on the boat are extremely expensive offerings from Europe. The part 1 video description states the hull weighs in at 36 lb so I am surprised how bouyant the hull is. It seems too light.

[hughb]

Bada$$ boat. Where did you find the lock down pins for the cowl.?

http://www.rcboatbitz.com/index.php?...oducts_id=1205