So you guys (most of you anyway lol) know I sank my Rivercat a few months back. Well I sold my 34" mono to build another Rivercat. I just finished it up and it's first run was last weekend. Did pretty well, but let me back up a little. I bought a motor from neu a while back for a different build that I have had time to fool with, so I tried this motor out in another boat. It ended up being the wrong kv. So, I had this idea to try and run this higher kv motor in my Rivercat and see how far I can push it on low voltage. Just for kicks. I see some pretty impressive speeds out of higher voltage with people just adding cells and adding cells to go faster. Well I wanted to try the opposite as its more of a challenge for me. Something different you know. Tired of the same ole stuff. Anyway I've only run this 32" Rivercat on 3s so far and it's a frigging hoot. I built it to run on 4s and 5s if I really want to go fast but 3s is pretty impressive (to me anyway). I'm still working the kinks out and tuning it in but right now I'm at 73 on 3s. I think I can get it to 76-78 on 3s with some more tweaking. Rudder hadn't been shortened or thinned yet. Also I'm running it on not fully charged batts just so I don't get inflated numbers. This was my very first attempt and batts were at 4.0v per cell

I make some changes and a few little tweaks. Batts at 4.10

This pass is taking some rudder trim out and setting the rudder straight. Boat seemed to go straight under full throttle.

And this is a fresh set of batts fully charged just to see what the potential is

I make some changes and a few little tweaks. Batts at 4.10

This pass is taking some rudder trim out and setting the rudder straight. Boat seemed to go straight under full throttle.

And this is a fresh set of batts fully charged just to see what the potential is

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