I do believe this boat was made to handle choppy waters, Big B you did a great job on the prop 👍. I’ve worked numerous Octura props in the past and I know it’s a time consuming process. You have been granted the gift of patience. This boat and your prop should have it jumping from wave top to wave top. Now when the weather is not so favorable you can still go out and play… I mean test and tune for the betterment of the hobby… and play 🤣
I know right, now I can be happy when it's blowing a Gail. I know I have at least one boat that will take the abuse. Normally, I pray for light and variable wind conditions 🙏
Big B , I know that your are warming up. I am waiting and watching for the day when you land the jackpot 😊 And that is ….. SPEED We feel the NEED , The NEED for SPEED 😊
You may be able to answer a question for me, I have a set of ABC props that I run on a boat, it power cuts over 103mph how can I reduce the load from the prop without sacrificing diameter or top end speed? Back cut? Reduce Bar? Barr cut? abc 1916 17/45
@@IRONCLADRC There are other options as well. For comparison mount a tfl 1916, a very light prop for its size. Maybe reduce the rake slightly. I detoung all my props, at first I did so just for looks and it just felt right. Water tends to stick at glass like surfaces so I sand my props and rudders dull (800 - 1200 grit) Every part that touches water. At a site called Fast RC Boats (2018 - 2021) riggers and cats set world records, up to 206 mph........Wat struck me was the use of a solid shaft at very shallow angle. However no pics of the prop / shaft internal / motor timing (6 pole) Your temps worry me a bit, up to 149 F is quite high. Every electrical component hates high temps, eventually corroding all copper parts. therefore I keep a max of 105 - 110 F on every part subjected to current flow. The power cut you 've expierenced may be triggered by a peak temp of the esc. Measured temps are always lower than the actually temps occured. I'll post you in a few days again. Ciao.for now.
In my opinion if they would have used fiberglass they would have had to lay it down too thick and the boat would end up being significantly heavier with the polycarbonate they are able to make it lighter and thinner overall
@@IRONCLADRC self righting is nice.. It's also easier to maintain through quality control at the shop.. The "plastic" molds that already arrive Compressed with the ridges and folds who give it its strength. Fiberglass would have to be hand laid in after the parts are out of the mold and glued. Wed be paying excess of a grand for a fiberglass boat that runs too hot with any prop change. This way.. You're able to modify a Bit.. Tunability make big difference. If the boat is heavy, expensive to make, and on the edge of its tune with speed to weight ratio. It will never sell! Good job to proboat for engineering this one as light as can be
Hey big B, love your channel!! I look forward to your videos every day, it's how I start my morning lol. question on prop sharpening, do you polish the back side of your prop just as much as the front or just the back side?
The big boat is running sweet, polycarbonate is tough material for the hull, beryllium copper dust is not healthy to breathe but it is heat treatable and would be good material for props to be made from, back in the day I made millions of small electrical connectors on Swiss automatic screw machines out of beryllium copper. Tinker, tune, test and repeat 🔁. Somebody will eventually put motor with a little more kv , perhaps 🤔 the 1350kv from BJ42 and then we’ll see what the hull is really capable of .
@@IRONCLADRC Big B, I only have aluminum 7075 T7 props from Bill Oxidine and the 1 that came from rcbb with the trim tabs for the BJ42 , they now have a stage 4 52mm prop. The heat treatment for bronze beryllium is something like 600F for 3 hours but it depends on what exactly the material is. Hey I just uploaded a older video that should be worth the “neverlift” challenge the batteries were already down on voltage and it was only with the rcbb prop.
Hi. Love your videos 😀 Where can I buy the storage box for the propellers? I have also tryed to find a 3D file to print for organising the propellers, but I haven’t found any?
This big boat it worse in the rough than pretty much every other boat you have and it’s slow . I really don’t get the appeal. Just about every Rc boat RU-vidr that’s got a decent viewer base must have got a freebie from ProBoat to try to promote interest in it. Good on ProBoat for doing it right. It’s just not my thing, kind of a boring boat I think. Sorry to the people who might love it.
Feel bit same way, more big show boat when it's stock. Should be at least as fast if not faster than smaller brothers and sisters. Maybe gets it to run spectaculairy, but feel it needs some expensive upgrades before that happens...
Being a 950kv and bigger then 40" it should had a 12s esc. Not a 8s... 8s is for 36" up in sizes...in my opinion! The Impulse 32" have a 8s esc but its a 2000kv motor.... To run 12s it shoud be less then 1000kv. Either way i will get one once they become avaiable in the second hand market 👍 i Have the Zellos 48" and with the stock 1000kv and 8s esc its slow...but a simple 12s esc solves that...same motor, but it's a cat not a deep v hull...👍
now you know why people say electric is not faster than gas. When you go to gas size hulls electric sucks. the fastest electric boats in the NAMBA/IMPBA records are P class. 30-34" 4s. the 6s, 8s, 10s, etc class are SLOWER. because the hulls are getting bigger. Its also why there isnt full size real boats running electric. A 48" wood gas boat with a 35cc mod will lap at 70+mph all day.
Gas ⛽️ RC boats are obnoxiously loud, pollute the water more than a electric ⚡️ boat with the gas/oil residue and I’ve never seen a fast gas boat in person, on the Internet everyone speeds up the video for looks.
I respect your opinion but it sounds to me that you never have driven a boat like you stole it. This boat is capable of jumping waves and 360, 720s, driving so close to the shore that you can splash everyone. If you tip it over it rolls right back over. I have the 36" v2 and it's truly the funnest boat I own. You can't say all of that about very many boats. I hope you have one and are talking from experience. Then I can have respect for your comments.
