post rescue rigs here

[wrongway]

Rescue

Hi,

Yes a tennis ball works good until my boat quits in the middle of a large lake.
When I ran Nitro that seemed to be all the time. Got tired of it and bought a
used paddle boat. Not as cool as you you guys building rescue boats, but is functional. Would be cool to build a tug for a project this next winter.

[yogi]

I think twin 550's might work.
But just not sure I can find an esc high enough rating so thats why I was wondering if I could run 2 escs.
How would I set up the escs with a Y splitter??

I have been told a 770 motor would be better.

Yeah I am still learning on the motor sizing also.

I run two titan 550's in my rig with a traxxas waterproof EVX-2 (stock emaxx setup) think I paid $40 for em, I've seen em go pretty cheap on flebay also. A very solid setup, just need lipo cutoff, plenty of power, could probly push a john boat lol

[Cope]

Here's the start of my Springer tug. 18" by 10"

She will be powered by 2 12V batteries and a 550 direct drive brushed inrunner.







Just waiting on some parts before I can finish.

Not to mention some warm weather so I can do the glassing....

[monojeff]

I run two titan 550's in my rig with a traxxas waterproof EVX-2 (stock emaxx setup) think I paid $40 for em, I've seen em go pretty cheap on flebay also. A very solid setup, just need lipo cutoff, plenty of power, could probly push a john boat lol

Funny you should mention that just bid on one last night hope it runs well when I get it. What props and batterie setup were you running?

[monojeff]

Also wondering what lipo are you running with the twin 550s?

[dana]

Here's the start of my Springer tug. 18" by 10"

She will be powered by 2 12V batteries and a 550 direct drive brushed inrunner.







Just waiting on some parts before I can finish.

Not to mention some warm weather so I can do the glassing....

is this a kit? or just plans..?

[dana]

The gaff (or "floating grappling hook" as I would describe it to others) comes with about 6' of fishing line. Simply attach one end of the line to the gaff and the other end to the ass-end to any boat ever made. Then drag the gaff around the downed boat once or twice and come back to shore. The gaff has hooked the downed boat on the first try for me every time so far. I added a special tow-hitch off of the end of my mini-c so the line doesn't get pulled into the propeller. I'll try to get some video of it in action this weekend. It's a faster setup for retrieving a downed boat than these huge, cumbersome water-plow-rescue-craft-monstrosities and like I said the whole setup fits in my boat tool bag. All you need is the $24 gaff and ANY boat.

I have a huge, rediculous PVC water-plow-rescue-craft-monstrosity that I made and I MUCH prefer my mini-c and baby duck gaff setup.

it just occured to me that fly fishing line would work well, it floats, so less change of tangling into the propeller

[Cope]

I'm going off a drawing but you can buy a kit or a fiberglass hull.
I just blew up the drawing to scale on my PC and traced right off the screen. The top deck is my own design. Loosely based off an Atlantic tug. I'm currently building a recovery crane for the rear deck.

Go to RC groups Dock talk, It's the first post on the page. It's a LONG thread...

EDIT-It is a GREAT EASY build. It's designed to be built with spare parts. even the rudder is just hammered sheet metal over brass tubing. One guy even made a sheet metal prop.

[monojeff]

OOps read the post wrong.

[Philmunsterman]

This is my Proboat Shockwave. It works great. I just clip the line to the Shockwave drive out and cricle around the dead boat and reel them back in. I have several hundred yards of 50lb Spyder Wire on the reel.

[dana]

[QUOTE=Philmunsterman;300171]This is my Proboat Shockwave. It works great. I just clip the line to the Shockwave drive out and cricle around the dead boat and reel them back in. I have several hundred yards of 50lb Spyder Wire on the reel.

ok but why the pool noodle on the shockwave?

[monojeff]

So when the back of the boat hits the rescued rig is has some padding I am going to assume?? Also helps it from swamping...

[yogi]

Funny you should mention that just bid on one last night hope it runs well when I get it. What props and batterie setup were you running?

I run 2 BJ 26 drives and stock BJ props, running 2 turnigy 2s 30c 5000mah lipos with a HK low voltage alarm, I also ordered 2 rio EP cooling coils from kintec racing ($5 for both) for the motors but they r on backorder...

[monojeff]

I run 2 BJ 26 drives and stock BJ props, running 2 turnigy 2s 30c 5000mah lipos with a HK low voltage alarm, I also ordered 2 rio EP cooling coils from kintec racing ($5 for both) for the motors but they r on backorder...

Awesome thanks for the info.
What kind of run times are you getting with that seems like it could last a while.

Do you guys think a gear reduction system would be worth while??

[yogi]

Awesome thanks for the info.
What kind of run times are you getting with that seems like it could last a while.

Do you guys think a gear reduction system would be worth while??

No problem man, I've not had it out that much yet, still pretty cold out here, I had these batts in my traxxas summit (same esc but with 770 motor) and would get 40min or so of run time, so I figure I could probably run at least 30 min or so, not sure on the gear reduction, I thought about trying some diff props