Miss Geico Maiden Voyage

[blackcat26]

Here is a quick clip of her bone stock on 4s2p lipo. Slow, but handles good! 33.7mph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUrdUlVUAw

[Rumdog]

Man, they do turn well. Put a good prop on her, and she'll scoot!

[johnf]

sweet! your's had the correct cable?

[FloatDaBoat]

Nice initial run; I’d be too Chicken to pass that close to that submerged tree top, though . . . .

[Brushless55]

Looks great in the turns!

[blackcat26]

Rummy, I just wanted to see what the baseline runs was before I did anything else to her. Cant decide if I am gonna go crazy on this one or keep it fairly stock. I have a tendency for going to the excessive side.....

FloatDaBoat, The first time I passed the limb was a total accident!
The second time was on purpose. I'm not really a great driver but after running my blackjack around 75mph this boat feels relaxing.

Johnf, When I took my factory cable off it appeared to be the wrong rotation so I made up one with an octura stub shaft and correct lay cable. (Didn't want to take any chances) It's about a 1/2 shorter that the factroy stub but seems to work fine.

Brushless55, Thanks bro. I was taking some at full speed which my Blackjack wont even turn half that well.

I am really loving this boat. The shape of this hull is beautiful and the color in the pictures does not do it justice at all. It's been described as "radioactive" and I agree!

[blackcat26]

I have put 2 more runs on her since the other day and this hull still is bouncy. Tried raising the strut but then it cavitated alot and lost some top end (still bouncy). Put a x642 on her and ran again with the strut lower and gained a few mph back but is still bouncy. Everybody's video I have seen so far has this same problem.....Any idea's?

[Diesel6401]

I just rounded my rudder, haven't run it since then though. Maybe today or tomorrow ill give a test run

[blackcat26]

How much did you round it? I just kinda rounded mine enough that it would not scratch me! lol

[Diesel6401]

I used a small socket to get a nice curve. I didn't take much of, just a really smooth curve and then sharpend the leading edge.

[jac4412]

Turns on a dime

[Darin Jordan]

I have put 2 more runs on her since the other day and this hull still is bouncy. Tried raising the strut but then it cavitated alot and lost some top end (still bouncy). Put a x642 on her and ran again with the strut lower and gained a few mph back but is still bouncy. Everybody's video I have seen so far has this same problem.....Any idea's?

Did you move the batteries forward??

It could be that the ridepads need to be block-sanded as well.

On the test boat, raising the strut and moving the cells forward seemed to help a lot. My production boat is going to need some blueprinting on the ride-pads to get it where I want it. Painting and the production process seems to take it's toll on what otherwise were very true surfaces. Normal RTR "race prep" stuff...

[Darin Jordan]

By the way... on my wedge rudders, I don't "round" them... I simple use my bench-top disk sander and "V" the bottom of the rudder... Kills any lift that might be cause by the flat rudder bottom pitching. Easy to get even also.

[Diesel6401]

By the way... on my wedge rudders, I don't "round" them... I simple use my bench-top disk sander and "V" the bottom of the rudder... Kills any lift that might be cause by the flat rudder bottom pitching. Easy to get even also.

I will do that as well to the bottom of the rudder

[blackcat26]

Darin, I tried moving them around both directions. Seemed like it was still kinda skippy. Gonna run her again in a few minutes with the rudder mod you mentioned and try my 442 out. Have not sanded the pads yet but will soon if I can't tame this thing.