I was given this Nikko boat a couple years ago as a gift and we all know it's no hobby grade boat. Since then I've acquired 3 hobby grade boats. A few times out I ran into problems when something would go wrong while the boat was out in the middle of the pond and had to wait 2 hours for the wind to blow it back. So I decided to turn this Nikko boat into a recovery boat. I wanted to do something different, not just throw hobby grade stuff in it. So I'm finally getting around to building this up. I am going with 2 Pro Boat jet drives from their decoy retrieval boat, and 2 Traxxas 18t 380 motors. After laying everything out I realized that I would not only have to cut out the bottom of the boat to remove the stuffing tube and surrounding area, I would have to rebuild the transom to bring it to a 90* angle so I could mount the jet drives. Here are the pics that bring me up to tonight.
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