Here is my Christmas present - don't know if Model Slipway is going to sell the mouldings - if not, this will be a fairly scarce beastie. I got the thing at Leamington this year along with a radio set to drive it. The plan is that it will be used for things like steering competitions though I would like to do some light towing and tugging with it. To this end the towing winch is attached to a pretty substantial framework under the deck to transfer the stress into the hull. The flexibility of the mouldings will should act as a shock absorber. The other other plan is that it can be used as a kids boat for when I get an audience at the lake - it can be used to give them a go at driving. Apart from the winch, what do I need to have on the rear deck to give a realistic deck appearence - I am assuming the square block on the deck is for a gob winch. I was thinking of something like a set of shark jaws or Karm forks to double up as locks on the hatch, though it could be made strong enough for towing. How strong do I need to make the bollards at the back if I am going to use them for a gob-rope?
The motors are 380 diameter units, fairly slow running but run on a 9.6V pack the 40mm props make it shift quite well if the speed it picked up going across the bath is anything to go by. The motor mounts are the vac-forms from Grimy-Rita. At the moment the ESC is a P93 multicontroller - the motors are run in parallel, though I may upgrade to a P94 Dual ESC/Mixer to improve the steering. The advantage of the P93, though, is I can add in a switch to limit the output speed to either 50% or 25%, so I can throw it inot "slow" mode to stop the kiddies from doing too much damage. Which do you think would be most appropriate - the turning circle seems pretty good with the P93 - I could just about turn it around in the bath
Wom
