Aquajet resting

[bobswworld]

Hi all,
here is a sad story, just put a new motor in my aquajet and it was running sweet on 16 cells and upgraded cooling. It was the fastest it has ever been for me. Well it must have hit a wave in a straight run and it flipped, it stayed up for a half hour or so. It was just too far out to reach with my fishing pole. But finally it drifted in close enough and I hooked it and drug it in another 25 ft or so but then it went bottom down and stayed that way for another 10 minutes or so just in swimming reach. I saw it going down slowly so I thought it is just there I can get it so walked into the water to about waist high and the cold took my breath away, but could not see it anymore it slipped under. The onlookers sighed behind me as I hesitated thinking about drowning saving this boat as people have said on this forum not too swim after your boat. Tried for another hour with hooks and sinkers to snag it, others started to help, they were fishing and changed there rigs to help me. But finally I thanked everyone as I got a snag and lost my largest hook.
Well at this point I fell I need to stay on land with my hobbies, I know now I should have made sure this boat was extremely watertight.
Just thought I would share my little tragedy with everyone
Might have to go fishing more often in the same spot LOL

[J Solinger]

Wow! That's a drag. I'm sorry to hear this. Maybe with a little luck you will fish it out another day.

[Spot Me 2]

That sucks!!!! That is the reason proper floatation is sooooo important!

[bobswworld]

Oh it had the stock foam in the bow, it has flipped before but never ever been upside down for that long.

Do you think if I got it out sometime that anything would be salvageable?

jeti600
graupner 700bb

thanks for the responses

feel like I lost a friend or something

What is a good rc truck?

[Fluid]

Sorry for your loss....

No matter how much floatation a boat has, you need to make sure it is enough. Weigh the boat as accurately as possible (a bathroom scale won't do it), then multiply the weight in pounds by 29. This gives the minimum number of cubic inches of floatation needed to keep the boat on the surface. Sadly, many RTR boats may not have enough floatation - and if you add to the weight with more cells, etc, the problem gets worse.

A truck? Just build the boat right next time and you won't have to be seen driving a landlocked second choice......

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[egneg]

Last week my waveshark went down with a similar setup. It was under for a couple of hours while I went home and got a fishing pole with a big treble hook on it. I managed to snag it and bring it back to shore. I dried everything out and oiled the 700sc and ran it today.

[j.m.]

The only thing that might be damaged is your esc and receiver. Maybe your servo.

But if those were waterproofed, then everything should be fine.

[bobswworld]

Hi all,
SUCCESS!!

I spent over an hour yesterday throwing a rake on a 45 ft rope and dragging the bottom with no luck, but today I went out and really looked and played back the position in my mind, and threw the rake out and pulled it back in maybe a foot and hooked onto something heavy, thought it was a log, pulled it in and there it was, got it on the first throw. It was out about 35 ft and in about 10 ft of water for 2 days.
My questions are as follows
How waterproof is the Jeti600 navy?
it looks as if it is covered in an epoxy or something.
I took the receiver and servo apart and dried them, charged the batteries on low and slow, they seem to take the charge, one was down to .8 volts and the other was 3.5 volt, what do you think?
I am so happy, will rebuild it this time with too much flotation!!
thanks for the replies

[Diegoboy]

That's awesome you got her back. I have one on the bottom for almost a year now. Sank on her maiden voyage. We tried the rake technique, wading in 34degree water, and even threw a cast net, with no recovery.

Keep'em floating!

[egneg]

Hopefully things will be good to go once they dry out. Use a hair dryer to be sure.

[bobswworld]

sorry about that, guess I got lucky

And I thought my situation was bad, in only 2days there was corrosion on all the soldered areas and am not sure what happened to the "resistor" not sure what you call it, on the back of motor it was fried off???
the batteries were pretty dead, one worse than the other.
I hope this jeti navy esc is ok they are not real cheap, but not as expensive as what some of you guys use.

[egneg]

sorry about that, guess I got lucky

And I thought my situation was bad, in only 2days there was corrosion on all the soldered areas and am not sure what happened to the "resistor" not sure what you call it, on the back of motor it was fried off???
the batteries were pretty dead, one worse than the other.
I hope this jeti navy esc is ok they are not real cheap, but not as expensive as what some of you guys use.

That should be a diode - easy enough to replace and only a buck or so.

[Meniscus]

Congrats Bob, glad you got your friend back. I think that most of us go a little overboard with the flotation. I know I do for the most part. Certainly make sure that everything is dry inside and out and Egneg's suggestion with the hair drier is a must. Nothings worst than rescuing something that didn't stand a chance of running again while it is still wet somewhere...poof!

[Meniscus]

And BTW, don't consider swimming again. It's never worth the shriveled fingers! But really, don't consider again!