Great, something broke and threw away the long post I typed out, and now I'm too frustrated to attempt to recreate it. So now y'all get the summary:
Boat was recovered shortly after it sank by the guy that attempted to hook it while it was bow up.
Ran into guy with boat yesterday. He dumped it out, unplugged the battery, and tried to dry it out.
Threw RX and ESC in oatmeal overnight, both work.
Charged packs at low current in a lipo bag, neither blew up, both charged to 4.20/cell.
Most of the wood had broken away from the hull, so I glassed it all back together with 2 oz tape and West epoxy. Rock solid now.
Straightened rudder bracket, can't tell it was bent now.
RX is now in a Traxxas box so it doesn't get wet again.
Working on a hatch hold down screw setup that will make sure the hatch can't pop off in the future. Pics when I get it done, hopefully tonight. Lots of lathe work involved in this one.
All that's left is patching the gelcoat on the aft end of the right sponson. It's chipped down to glass, so I'm going to patch it with pigmented epoxy. I may blueprint the ride pads while I'm at it.
So that's the short version. I love this boat, she handles extremely well, looks good on the water, and really doesn't have that many issues. Pro Boat really needs to improve their bonding techniques, though. The wood pops off the glass if you look at it funny. Tying the wood into the glass with glass tape would go very far in keeping it together. Even better, lose the wood entirely and build them like a "normal" FE boat with the motor mount glassed to the tunnel, ESC and RX sitting on plates glassed to the hull somewhere (or just stuck down with good trim tape, and so on. Oh, and a breakaway rudder would be a very, very good thing.
Here's some pics from shortly before the incident. Don't think I'm having any issues with the hull running wet
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