looking for RC boat club in CT

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How do you guys feel about salt water? Because yellow mill creek on waterview ave is pretty ok for me at least stock boat though. Further more rage powerboats are down the street maybe we can go for a tour of the place. They build 30 ft activators and on any given day they have 32 skaters and many more.

[Gary]

Most of the time ...sunny side up!! Most!! This is my favorite place to go and almost 1 mile of room. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvi9KIth-kg

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Gary that looks great. is that toby's pond?

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Gary have you been to bunnells pond at beardsley park? its pretty huge i really think if we keep the boats near the park side as much as possible we'll be able to fish them out with the fishing poles in case of any problems. so far no permit needed.

[Gary]

I would love to try it out ....only have my little tenshock hydro to play with when I go. The boat in the video needs LOTS of room and easy access to retrieve if need be. Im pretty quirky about running that boat. I need DEAD calm water, NO ONE around to bother me and is the reason why I will go at 6:30 am to make a few passes. Way to much time and money to make a mistake. That video is exactly 90mph and boat now is at 104mph. Looking for a solid 105-108.

[jetskier]

Hmmm ... For 200 bux I bought a kayak. It's always funny to me how guys with numerous Rc boats will keep spending on more.

that's my way. most of the time I operate my RC boat in my kayak with a big zip lock bag over the controller. it's a blast and you can get up and close with it. but the 2 ponds in my town is too small to launch a kayak and I will use my tennis ball setup.

[jetskier]

Well this is a long shot but anyone in the bridgeport area? I5ve thought of a few places:
•Lake Forest, we would have to pay but it seems like a great location about Half a mile long.
•The pond at Sea Side park Pretty small at 350 ft.
•Bridgeport harbor on calm days, about another .5 mile place.
•Space behind miamoque yacht club is a quarter mile.
•Bunnells Pond at Beardsley park is awesome a lot of nitro rc car people around but its very deep and we cant put a retrieval boat in it not even peddle lol. Ive never seen anyone with rc boats there.
•This one is also salt water but its a great spot its Yello Mill Creek, half mile space with good open access. I just got into rc boats and I launched mine there for the first time it was great cant wait to do it again. It is pretty boring by my self though.

We should organize at least 1 test meet to see how it goes.

Eddie

thanks for the location tips but I'm not a fan for running my RC boats in salt water. I use to race stand up jetskis and you can see the damage of components in teardowns.

[madmikepags]

I ran in salt for many years, had mostly good luck lost a couple of cheap speedos and a motor or 2, but when I satrted getting into the bigger boats, more expensive speedos motors and stuff i stopped, then I went back to the salt water pond one day and 3 drops of salt water cost me 2 Shultz 40-160's ($1500 bucks) that was my last time running in salt water.

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I would love to try it out ....only have my little tenshock hydro to play with when I go. The boat in the video needs LOTS of room and easy access to retrieve if need be. Im pretty quirky about running that boat. I need DEAD calm water, NO ONE around to bother me and is the reason why I will go at 6:30 am to make a few passes. Way to much time and money to make a mistake. That video is exactly 90mph and boat now is at 104mph. Looking for a solid 105-108.

thats awesome man hope we can make a meet happen.

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Oh I didnt know salt was that bad. Well ill see how beardsley park goes.

[urbs00007]

club in ct.

let me know how it goes at beardsley park. how far is the water from parking?

[Gary]

Yea every thing can get wet with fresh water and you just need to dry it out. Salt water....never stops eating away at everything. I also learned the hard way.It can be done but to me not at all worth it. A blow over in fresh water never a problem and thats the way I like.

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let me know how it goes at beardsley park. how far is the water from parking?

very short not bad at all

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Yea every thing can get wet with fresh water and you just need to dry it out. Salt water....never stops eating away at everything. I also learned the hard way.It can be done but to me not at all worth it. A blow over in fresh water never a problem and thats the way I like.

Very good to know my investment is only about 480 but it would still hurt.

[urbs00007]

rc club

Yea every thing can get wet with fresh water and you just need to dry it out. Salt water....never stops eating away at everything. I also learned the hard way.It can be done but to me not at all worth it. A blow over in fresh water never a problem and thats the way I like.

what motor, speed control, and batts you running in that thomas hydro? any data logging?