2013 West Florida Model boat club, Sarasota, FL

[keithbradley]

Yeah do I wanna take 100mph running advice from you???? I saw what you did to it.....

I think when it comes to 100mph+ runs without breaking a boat...I still have you beat

To be fair, when I broke that boat it was on a run where I had de-tuned it. I went down in voltage AND prop size, so it was only set up to run ~95mph. After multiple runs at 120mph+ and no damage, it was one of the slowest runs I ever made that hurt it. That was also the first time ever that I ran the (weaker) painted hatch. Up until that run I only used the reinforced Kevlar hatch as a caution.

Running slower with the boat made me more comfortable (read: reckless) with it. A friend was flying a 70-80mph plane overhead with a camera facing down at the boat, and I would wait for him to get ahead, then catch up and blow by. I was making such long runs across the lake that I couldn't really see the water conditions when it was far away, and as my wakes stacked up, I ended up getting hit from the side with waves that I never saw. That boat could have handled 9/10 100mph crashes, but unfortunately it got NO air time, and dispersed all of it's energy in one fatal blow. It was just a perfect hit, on a not-so-perfect day.

SO...
The moral of the story is this:
DONT RUN IT BELOW 100MPH! It's dangerous!

[TRUCKPULL]

Ackerman may be a challenge Scott unless you run long ways. At 100 + MPH it goes quick.

Larry, I have your BBQ plate done and will bring it Sunday.

Thank You Dave
I will see you Sunday

Larry

[tiqueman]

@keith. Lol. I'm only bringging 8 and maybe 9 s for it so it'll stay well under 100 tomorrow. I've run it twice under so I guess I do have you beat there.

@ club members. I'm bring the 135 and the 47 promise which I've decided to sell. So if anyone's interested let me know.

[osprey21]

I have a good (albeit slightly abused) kidney I'll trade ya for that 135.

[tiqueman]

Ill ponder it chris. Lol. Throw in an acl and you may have a deal

[tiqueman]

Man for as bumpy as I thought itd be out there today, it really glassed out nice. Had I not had to leave early and still only showed up with big boats I woulda been a little disappointed. Great water.

@ Keith, I ran her on 8 and 9. Ran cooler I guess due to efficiency on 9S by an average of about 6 degrees. Well under the 100 mph mark but ran beautifully. Id guess in the 70 ballpark. Its hard to judge a big boat when you haven't ran that size much.

[flraptor07]

@Scott; Well I made it but you were already gone. (about 10:30) I'll give you a call about the Shocker hull.

[bill34207]

Vids from today are now up.

[tiqueman]

Thanks Bill!

[TRUCKPULL]

Thank you Bill for the video (Video can be seen in todays run day report)

I did my battery recharge when I got home.
Total Run time 1:30 min.
4750 mAH
average AMP draw = 192 AMP's

On the 6 lap run I ran a little wide.
6 lap run 83 seconds with a top speed of 55.4 MPH
NAMBA record for N2 Sport Hydro is 92.65 sec.
NAMBA record for N2 Hydro (rigger) is 87.03 sec.
So all in all I am very happy with it.

Larry

[ron1950]

btw if anyone is having trouble renewing there namba card on line...it works well if u use safari web browser or just about any browser other then IE....there is some problem with going to paypal using some versions of ie

[bill34207]

I'll have to try it with chrome. I haven't had any luck at all using IE.

[bill34207]

Just tried and it worked with Google chrome. Thanks Ron for the browser tip.

[nammer]

hi all, greetings from st pete, just bought myself a boat, and joined the forums last week. Nice videos that u guys posted up

[ron1950]

Just tried and it worked with Google chrome. Thanks Ron for the browser tip.

actually it was all waters that explaned it all over on either jims boat dock or intl cant remember but it works nice