STILETTO at Cambridge pond HD

[Darin Jordan]

On a course, I can't quite drive my Stiletto at WOT the WHOLE turn. What I find I need to do is ease off slightly as I enter the turn 1 buoy to set the nose down slightly and get the boat started turning. Once it takes a "set", I can then squeeze the throttle back on to WOT. However, sometimes, as I approach the exit of the turn, if I see that the boat is starting to "fly" (like when a race car "pushes" exiting a turn) the natural instinct is to turn more... If you do this too much, it will hook and flip. The proper way to handle it is to ease off the throttle slightly to set the boat a little more, then get back into the throttle when it's set again.

Driving one of these is a real balancing act. If the water is really smooth, then I can just power through the turns. Once it turns into "race water", then what I described above is how it works...

At least for me...

[steve-b]

All this driving in circles is making my head spin....
I always wondered what you guys do North of the border.
Is this the right way to do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwgg-nPQvuY

Stiletto looks awsome on the water. Thanks for sharing!
Tom

This is not what we do north of the border. This vid is of one guy.
I agree... 6mins GONE. Not getting that back.

[johnf]

OP, that vid was awesome. HD ftw! The stiletto is very cool looking on the water. Think thats the first good vid I've seen of one.

[GP73]

I love it when Lipo tells me to go easy on the throttle...

[GP73]

On a course, I can't quite drive my Stiletto at WOT the WHOLE turn.

Well... you know... I didn't say how WIDE my WOT turns are...

Did I thank you already for a beautiful boat?

[johnf]

I love it when Lipo tells me to go easy on the throttle...

Haha, yeah that was funny.

[LiPo Power]

Wait till I get my Stiletto on the water and let Doby say at every turn:
Don't hit the marker!

[JDCrow]

1:1 tunnelboats[/URL] they make incredible tight turns, and that is the whole point with a formula boat the way I see it.

[LiPo Power]

I am sure they power to speed and size ratio is not the same to what we do on our boats....

[Brushless55]

If you throw out 3 buoys in a triangel and run tight to the buoys you will know what I mean. If you look at 1:1 tunnelboats they make incredible tight turns, and that is the whole point with a formula boat the way I see it.

It depends on the course they run
I've been to several races of F1 and they are kick ass
depending on the turns, they flat out pin it and hold on