2015 West Florida Model boat club, Sarasota, FL

[ray schrauwen]

Sounds good to me. My water heater just sprang a leak so I will be replacing it this weekend anyway. STICKER SHOCK....40 Gal. Gas water heater $429...

Ever thought of going to a tankless system? More efficient, pays for itself over time and never deal with tanks again.

[flraptor07]

Ever thought of going to a tankless system? More efficient, pays for itself over time and never deal with tanks again.

Tankless is the way to go, they've gotten a lot more reasonable. I put one in my house and my mother's house too.

[HRC]

I never thought of that. Oh well to late now.

[ENCORE MAN]

Hi there, you chaps might want to reconsider using the Sarasota airport weather info as the major factor in deciding beforehand as to run or not. Encore RV resort is probably 15 miles away from the airport. The sun came out at 8.30 am and the water has been like glass until now. The northern breeze has just picked but your clubhouse course is protected and the water is quite calm at this moment. Brian Giardelli

[flraptor07]

Hi there, you chaps might want to reconsider using the Sarasota airport weather info as the major factor in deciding beforehand as to run or not. Encore RV resort is probably 15 miles away from the airport. The sun came out at 8.30 am and the water has been like glass until now. The northern breeze has just picked but your clubhouse course is protected and the water is quite calm at this moment. Brian Giardelli

LOL Now you tell us, it was raining @ my house this morning till about 11 or so and I'm only about 5 or 6 miles from Encore. We'll just shoot for the 13th for our next run or maybe the 6th I'll put it up for vote.

[flraptor07]

OK Guys let's get some input on the next run day, either Dec. 6th or the 13th? Let me know which one you guys want to do, our next schedualed run is the 13th but if the park has nothing going on we might be able to do it the 6th. Let me know and I'll clear it with the park..

[bill34207]

Looks like the website isn't sending out notices again. I just logged in because my computer died today. (working from a cheap laptop right now). Looks like I missed a couple of conversations. Sorry to hear about the water heater Dave. I know we all hate doing maintenance like that.
Future website updates may be delayed a bit. I'm not even going to try to install the web software on this one. I'm just hoping to be able to pull the web files from it once I get another "real" computer.

[RayR]

OK Guys let's get some input on the next run day, either Dec. 6th or the 13th? Let me know which one you guys want to do, our next schedualed run is the 13th but if the park has nothing going on we might be able to do it the 6th. Let me know and I'll clear it with the park..

the 6th sounds good to me.

[ron1950]

bill what notices?

[TRUCKPULL]

I have NOT received any E-Mail notices from OSC web for almost two years.
They tell me that they can not fix it.

Larry

[HRC]

Same here, no notices.

[bill34207]

They are actually coming through to me again. At least for now.

[RayR]

I,m in Larry,s camp, have not seen notices in two years.

[flraptor07]

I get them everyday!

[klbo]

Anybody posting videos from the new pond

[HRC]

Anybody posting videos from the new pond

Happy Thanksgiving Guys

Bill has been the one getting our videos over the years but his time is limited to boats now.

[RayR]

Happy Turkey Day!

[bill34207]

Happy Thanksgiving everybody

[rdcracer]

Me no notices ever.

[flraptor07]

Hey guys are we running Sunday? I guess I should have said something earlier but, who's in? And BTW I'm going to be gone Dec. 19th thru Jan. 3rd so Ray I need you to get the Motor, Battery, and Charger so you guys can run while I'm gone..

[HRC]

Wind @ 18 MPH by 10:00 with higher gust may be to rough. What you think?

[flraptor07]

Wind @ 18 MPH by 10:00 with higher gust may be to rough. What you think?

Yeah Dave you're right , I just looked at SRQ weather and that's a lot worse than last time! we'll shoot for next weekend!!

[flraptor07]

Guys I just looked @ SRQ weather and it's gonna be way too windy to run, we're lookin' @ 16-18mph so we'll shoot for next weekend!! http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/laun...=KSRQ&state=FL

[bill34207]

I was waiting to see if there was going to be any running tomorrow and hoping Encore was better sheltered than Ackerman. I was thinking about dropping in because I sure won't be flying.

[bill34207]

Not boating videos but there were some brave pilots that flew in the outrageous winds at the Warbirds over Sarasota event yesterday. YouTube play list (9 videos) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...v0Pl-SwvynoHNj

[ENCORE MAN]

9.30 am and the water is dead flat at Encore. The wind is behind your back and the course is some what sheltered. BG

[obrien]

hey guys I am having a brain fart and need some input. I need to buy some battery backs for my q offshore. I used to have a couple of 6s flat packs but I have not had any luck finding them. I am either going to buy some 6s brick packs and change them around or I am just going to get some 3 s packs. My question is about the 3 s packs. Since I will be running 2 batteries in series to create a 6s pack, how does that effect the mah rating of the batteries? Basically I want 6s 5000 packs. So do I need to get 4 3s5000 or 4 3s2500?

[photohoward1]

Running two 3s packs o 2500 gives you 6s 2500. Parallel doubles the mah but voyage stays the same.


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[obrien]

ok thats what I thought but for some reason just couldn't convince myself it was right
thanks

[TRUCKPULL]

Two 3S -5,000 in series = 6S -5,000
Two 3S -5,000 in Parallel = 3S -10,000

If you want to end up with 6S 2P - 10,000
You will need Four packs of 3S -5,000

Larry