My first fast electric boat !

[Gary]

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[Doug Smock]

Finally had a chance to look you up Pete. Awesome job my friend!
Hockey tape is your friend.

[DeltaAPmech]

Thanks Doug! This sure is fun to build and I hope I’m capable of driving this kind of boat.
Pete

[DeltaAPmech]

Here a a couple of glamour shots. I am working on running the water lines, I have to wait on more aluminum tube to arrive and then I?ll post what I installed. I?m also working on a turbine exhaust to print and add to the cowl. I just like the look. Same goes for the wing , but in its case I?m not going to install that until I get the boat running balanced and trimmed out to run nicely. I?ll add the wing later and see if it messes up the boat or slows it down terribly. It may just go on the boat when it?s sitting still on display at home. Who knows it may work fine at speed. Won?t know unless I try.
Pete

[Gary]

You might want to add some wing struts for more support.

[DeltaAPmech]

Yep something like that will probably be needed but the wing is just in the thinking about it stage. I want it to be really light, adjustable, easy to remove and easy to make new ones when it gets destroyed in a flip.
Pete

[DeltaAPmech]

I got the water lines run thru the boat today. Nothing spectacular, just aluminum tubes with a bit of brass tube the next size up glued to the ends to form a sort of flair to help hold the silicon tube. They run down the left side, and up and over the rudder servo. The pictures of the run are upside down and I can’t fix that. Something goes funny with the upload. I ran one to the motor and made the exhaust out the right sponson and the other line feeds the esc and it exits the hull on the left sponson. That’s the arrows pointing out the exhaust’s. I?d like to be able to see really easily that both cooling lines are flowing and having them exit on opposite sides of the boat should make it easy to spot problems. At least I hope it does.

I think a lot of sanding and painting is next. I really hate painting, I?m not good at it. What do you guys paint with ? Just rattle cans or something more serious?

Pete

[Gary]

When you prime the hull...I always let it sit for a week. You will be amazed at how much the wood soaks up the primer and it sinks in. Then I sand and primer again and it's good to go. Buy a good epoxy paint and use a bear coat. The Eastwood company sells everything you need. They actually have a spray epoxy in spray can that you mix in the can itself with a push button on top. It's really cool !!

Also be prepared to make changes to the rid pads as far as angle of attack goes. You may need some carbon fiber plates added on to get the boat where you need.
So I never make the sponson ride pads "finished" just in case I have to adjust them with some carbon plates.

[DeltaAPmech]

Thanks for the tips, I’m not sure what I’ll do for paint yet. I’m not
going for a car quality paint finish. That type of paint is so much more expensive. I know building a hydro to race isn’t cheap but dropping a couple hundred just for paint
is tough to swallow.

[DeltaAPmech]

I have had to go back to work so that?s killing my time to play with the boat. I did get my fancy prop and it looks great. I also started working on adding my turbine exhaust to the cowl. Still needs some smooothing out but it?s getting there

[Gary]

Like I said look into Eastwood as they will for sure have what you are looking for.
Or...you can have a custom decal kit made for the boat like I did and was only $60.00 for some wild colors. WORLD CLASS WRAPS does them.

[DeltaAPmech]

Ok thanks, I'll take a look. Never thought of a wrap

[DeltaAPmech]

Not much to show today, I got the wire drive cut down to size. Not much to show there, just abrasive disk cut the wire to have the 1/8 gap between the drive dog and the strut called for in Brent?s instructions. What I did make was a protective cone to put on the wire drive storage tube. Brent says to pull the wire drive after the day of running the boat and store it in the plastic tube he provided. That?s fine but I?d rather not pull the prop every time too. So I made this. It slips on the tube and has a TPU ( rubber ) cap to protect the prop while it?s stored off the boat.
Pete

[DeltaAPmech]

Its been slow going. Lots of other stuff eating up my play time. All I have managed to do is get the hull sanded and the first bit of primer on it. It sure does make the boat look different
I'm just going to rattle can it. I cant talk myself into spending the money fancy paint costs. If it was covered with a couple of hundred dollars worth of paint work and graphics I would not have as much fun with it constantly worrying about scratching it up. Going by my other boats its gonna happen. 6$ a can is more my speed right now.
Pete

[Xrayted]

Looking great Pete, and love the prop holder!