Victory EP 700 powerboat mods and run

[@satorrotas]

Very good work on this boat and the idea of ​​cutting this piece on a microwave is excellent, I wouldn't think of it. But to adapt the propellers it was not easy. In any case the test in the river was excellent, so a good time to spend piloting this boat, except when you had to look for the boat in the water which in my opinion must be very very cold 😄

[@Del350K4]

Pascal - it was freezing! I was hoping to avoid going into deep water to rescue the boat, but I needed to take just one more step...and suddenly it was up past my waist! I'm very happy, though, that it is repaired now, and it has a rudder.

[@satorrotas]

@@Del350K4 Above your waist !! 😮 I understand better now, I just thought you put both feet in the water 😄 Already you were not sick after this swim which was not planned. I don't know who was with you at the water's edge, but this person has to laugh when you were in the water 😁

[@Del350K4]

@@satorrotas It was my wife - and yes, she did laugh!

[@Georgieframe]

Thank you for sharing your struggling towards success! I can understand it´s not an easy work!😉 Your tiny workshop is exquisitely furnished! The onboard camera does a very good job! A very fine and entertaining video!👍👍👍

[@Del350K4]

Hello! Thank you very much - at last this old boat is reliable and has a rudder. : )

[@povestipentrucopii1217]

Nice share, 👍stay connected, good luck further!👍

[@Del350K4]

Thank you very much!

[@MarkBryanRC]

Great video and a fantastic powerboat, but I must say the highlight for me was waiting for your bulge to harden!!! Cracked me up, mate! Pete Wylie would love that!!! Loved the trailer runs to and from the river, and the onboard shots were great. The ending was also a treat, OHH! It's gone to my bo!!ocks. Haha!!! Cheers, mate! :O)

[@Del350K4]

My wife asked "Why did you put THAT in?" when she heard the bit about waiting for my bulge to harden. "It's funny!" I protested. "No, Del - it's just infantile". I think she'd forgotten that this was a video made to be watched by grown men - about a toy boat! Infantile, indeed! Thank you, Mark, for confirming that my childish sense of humour does appeal to my online mates! I hope Pete might even eventually see it : ) I love towing boats to the river on the trailer. Sadly the mud at the water's edge was too soft for me to back the trailer in and launch the boat. The ending was unscripted - I was keeping the water level at mig-thigh, and then took a single injudicious step which plunged me into waist-deep icy water. It's part of the cost of operating RC boats!

[@MarkBryanRC]

@@Del350K4 Hi Del - it certainly WAS funny, mate! We need a bit of humour in these bleak days. I agree, one could say that grown men playing with RC cars and boats is childish, but I am both happy and proud of that. Yes, it's the little boy in me that enjoys blasting my cars around the track and chuckling when Rob (or I) crash into a tree. Life is so serious most of the time, and I hope to keep that child in me 'till the day I die! Oh yes, after my first go with an RC boat a while ago, I also learned of the perils of their retrieval! Keep smiling, mate!

[@Del350K4]

@@MarkBryanRC I think blokes are better at keeping our inner child alive.

[@thecontractor365]

This is excellent. Everytime I see one of your RC speedboat videos, I'm always strongly reminded of the speedboat scene in the Bond movie Live and Let Die, especially the onboard shots. Great stuff as ever. If you do the 3 speedboat vid, that really will mimic the Bond sequence, but you may need to explode a couple....

[@Del350K4]

Hello mate! If I were to do the 3 way race, I'd love to build a wooden pier with frangible supports, so I could have one of the boats crash into it and make it collapse. I've also day dreamed about mocking up a replica of one of my beloved speedboats, just so I could blow it up; clearly, great minds do think alike! These Victory Ep 700s were common second hand a few years ago, and I did just miss a running one for fifty quid a few months ago. When I look on Amazon for affordable RC speedboats in this scale, the only ones I can find are too ugly to contemplate buying, so I'm very glad that I've still got this veteran one from many years ago.

[@TheHighDreamsYouTube]

Hey, came across your channel, I love your work! I’ll be here to support you! Never stop doing what you love to do! 🌹 New Subscriber! 🌷

[@Del350K4]

Hello - thank you very much for subscribing. It's a very small channel, but a happy one : )

[@AdventureTimeRC]

It's hard to get props for boats i have the same problem but you got it working great it really zips right along I like the on-board video and you got it back this time

[@Del350K4]

Hey, Brent! I've had one comment suggesting that it could be faster, but I'm perfectly happy with the speed. The 3S battery seems to cancel out the fact that the props are slightly too big, so that it goes at the same speed as it did before I lost the original props. One thing that did surprise me was the fact that the original counter-rotating design does seem to have been completely unnecessary. When I realized that my new props were both the same, and swapped polarity to one motor, I expected that the boat might need to be re-trimmed at different throttle settings, but it just behaves normally. The cheap GoPro knockoff I bought to replace the camera that was lost at sea does seem to turn everything slightly blue. I'm sure I can learn to either alter that from the camera's settings, or correct it in the editing software. And, as you say - I got it back thus time! It's better to wade through a freezing river than to drown in a nice warm ocean...

[@AdventureTimeRC]

@@Del350K4 i was wondering about the prop direction because I have the pt109 i built and stripped the gears out on i was going to do direct drive but wondered if the centrifugal force of 2 motors would effect it now I know it might be ok also I have seen people cut down small drone props and put on boats itbworks pretty good

[@Del350K4]

@@AdventureTimeRC From what I saw with this boat, your PT109 might be fine with direct drive. That's amazing to me, that cut-down drone props work okay on boats! Water is nearly 800 times more dense than air, so I would never have guessed that it would even be worth trying.

[@AdventureTimeRC]

@@Del350K4 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXmwoZmnqLGsqsU hey this is where I saw drone props being used Peter is amazing at cheap designs i have had the pleasure of meeting him and Sam though my many years of flite test events

[@Del350K4]

@@AdventureTimeRC Well, I don't know how I managed to miss seeing that video when it came out. I thought that I had watched every video Peter had posted since he left Flite Test. He certainly is amazingly creative, having built several full-size aircraft, including his Santa-sleigh man-carrying drone. I like his solar powered boat, too. If anyone was going to think of putting drone props on a boat I guess it would be him and Sam! If I lived on your side of the Atlantic I would definitely attend Flite Fest whenever possible.

[@islandrc-duke1972]

cool boat and nice fixes,great run brother

[@Del350K4]

Thank you! I like this boat again now : )

[@RC3DPrintAdventure]

Excellent work Del. Very inspiring to get into RC boats. Glad you got it running so well in the end. I like the way it does an emergency stop on voice commend using the code word....b*ll*cks...😁. !

[@Del350K4]

If you've ever been sufficiently starved of entertainment to watch my channel trailer, you'll have seen that I've spent time playing with full size speedboats. Perhaps for that reason, I like driving their RC equivalents. I always take a towel though, in case I end up having to go and rescue one.

[@Del350K4]

Ha ha! You're the first person to have mentioned that! I left it in the edit on a whim. Luckily the rudder, which bore the brunt, survived, as experience had taught me to cut it from steel rather than from styrene. The two difficulties presented by boats compared to cars are that: (a) If the motor stops, the boat doesn't stay where it stopped till you collect it - it drifts away. (b) If you roll it, it fills up with water and (potentially) sinks. Other than that, they're terrific fun.

[@mikealexis]

Love the shape of it and it is performing great

[@Del350K4]

Ey - thanks for commenting; yes, it is a striking looking boat. When I was getting a little demoralised and started looking at boats of this type (twin screws, no rudder) on Amazon, none were as good-looking as this. I'm glad about that, because it made me more determined to get this one going again.

[@mikealexis]

@@Del350K4 I was also looking for one and I came up with this one..kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp7QlH6Li81pi5I

[@Del350K4]

@@mikealexis I like ProBoat; I have the Volere 22. That was a very good video you made.

[@mikealexis]

@@Del350K4 Thank you very much my friend, do you have video with the volere? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nILFfXpmmKqIjrM

[@Pandhawa-5]

Amazing

[@Del350K4]

Thank you very much! I'm glad I was able to find usable propellors for this boat.

[@carloshnunez]

Not bad, but with bigger props migth go faster 🔵🔵🔵👍👍👍😀😀😀🔵🔵🔵

[@Del350K4]

I'm relieved to get it going at all! The collapse of Graupner and Robbe has made it very difficult to find props. I even considered fitting an outboard motor to this hull at one point, but I couldn't find one anywhere!

[@jspeedrc]

👍🏽 👍🏽 🇫🇷

[@Del350K4]

Thank you!