Thank you taking time to provide that information. I will have to give it a try. I have two aircraft projects planned for this winter and hopefully I can build "your" boat next Spring. I am not sure, but I at least for now think that my Tactic radio will work. It will be a true learning curve for me........., but that is a good thing. Thank you again!!
Andrew... This is an awesome build. I cant believe how well it goes across the water. I thought it would have been much slower. Great job.... A small trick I learned years ago was heating and bending PVC pipe. It would save on the cost of fittings. There are many ways to bend PVC pipe but I normally just use a heat gun. I am inspired by this video and have some spare motors and props and perhaps I could try building one too. Your design is great. Thanks for sharing.
My son and I put together one really quickly from parts we had at home. Not as zippy as yours but eh we had a good father son project. Still need to wire up the rev motor and adjust a few things but it floated ;) Thanks for the ideas.
As always, clever, inspirational and flawlessly executed. Don't want or like RC boats but this video makes me want to build one. I'd have sealed the cable hole in the lunch box with a blob of hot glue. Seems that would seal it better.
As I'm only using cheap speed controllers I'm going to see if conformal coating does the trick of waterproofing them. I have cut the covering off and given them several heavy coats of the acrylic coating I have had good experiences using on greenhouse automation electronics. I have also seen a video of a conformally coated 2.4GHz RC receiver working in a jam-jar of water - I always assumed 2.4GHz stuff would object to having anything sprayed on it never mind immersion!. I have an AR7000 receiver I bought for buttons so I might try the same experiment with that.
@@AndrewNewton Many thanks for the reply. The ESC experiment went well. Even fully immersed it seemed to work OK. I did think the start-ups might just have been a bit more ragged than when dry but, as you might expect from £10 ESCs, they are not the sweetest in this regard anyway.
Here in the UK I suspect I would only get blank looks if I tried to buy a "pool noodle". I hope that the grey pipe insulation that is obviously more in keeping with our weather will be an acceptable substitute 🙂
@@AndrewNewton Many thanks for the reply. I'm still having fun with a sub 250g motor glider using a depron wing as per your instructions. Indeed I may go sub 250 completely as I machined my left thumb with a palm router (I should never have joked about them being for routing your palm 🙂) so I'm not too sure about my abilities on the left stick for more critical stuff.
@@AndrewNewton Oh hell! I was putting biscuit slots in oak planks when I had my accident. My family's gallows humour really helped - take a deep breath and count to 9, cancel the order for red mahogany stain, etc.
Very nice build but I am still wondering how a rescue would be performed. How would you capture and tow a distressed plane or other object. Push the victim sideways maybe against the floaties? Design a makeshift pushbar on the front and/or back?
ah, the lasso idea is a good one. maybe a long string with an empty water bottle for a float. drag it behind you, then just circle around the rescuee and capture it that way, and drag er back to you. nice.
Hello Mr. Newton I just watched your build video for the R C Rescue boat. I am wondering if you could explain how you got the thrust vectoring and all of the mixes to work. I have made an R C Airboat for my rescue boat out of styrofoam, but it only has one motor and no reverse. I am interested in your reverse capability and also the vectored thrust. I have a 6 channel Tactic TTX650 radio, but I do not know if that would work for a project like this!! Thank you so very much for taking a moment to publish any information at all that you could pertaining to my inquiry here. It would be most helpful!
Great vid thanks. I'd like to build a slower version and maximise run time. What is your run time currently? To max run time what is needed & what might be achievable? Could I add solar, if so what changes are required? Much appreciated 👍
@@AndrewNewton Hi Andy thanks for your reply. Do you think I could add a 10Ah 1.5kg battery to this setup and still get bouyancy & thrust? Could I perhaps then get 30mins low throttle? Thanks 😊
Excellent to hear. Each motor connected to an ESC then all three ESCs powered from one battery via a 3 way cable. Each ESC connecting to its own channel in the receiver with only one of the ESCs providing 5V
Andrew Newton thanks for that. I’m really not electronic minded at all and having some concern about the one esc powering the receiver and how I achieve that. What size battery do you recommend? Do the motors get connected by which method series or parallel? Cheers
Thanks Andrew Newton Great tutorial to build, much information build my boat fpv How much can weigh the boat? A greeting and thank you very much for the information
Hi there. Mine will only have two rear props. I'm not very electronically inclined so excuse the stupid questions. Do both esc's need to have bec's ? Also what size lipo are you using ?
Good questions, only one ESC needs to have a BEC (to provide 5V for receiver and any servos if you have them) Doesn't really matter if both have BECs but it's probably better to remove one of the red ESC servo cable wires so that only one is providing the 5V. I used a 3S 3000mAH Lipo
Hi, I have a question: what wind power in knots or kmh could this be reliable, and what about waves on sea? I was thinking to rescue DragonForce RG65 or IOM sailboats, could it be done with this or those IOM or DragonForce 65 boats are to heavy maybe? thx, love your work...
I built the boat (looks great) but I can't figure out "differential thrust" in you mixing video. My Spektrum DX7s does not seem to have "curves". Is the Turnigy TX, you use, the only one that can do curves and if so can you send a link.
Hi Ron, I'm using OpenTX which you can run on Turnigy 9X, 9XR Pro and Taranis. Higher end Spektrums must be able to do curves but I know nothing about Spektrum. Flite Test have done a video on differential thrust with Spektrum I think.
3 motors, 3 ESCs (only one providing power to the receiver), plugged into 3 separate channels. The magic is in the mixing. ruclips.net/video/80iH9CsB5CM/видео.html
Thank you for the response, but I was not clear. How do you attach the 3 esc's battery lead to one battery, and is it parallel or series? I could not find a harness to buy. I am a newby !!
Oh yes, you can buy a 3 way breakout cable from Hobby King, or make one up yourself. www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__25479__XT60_to_3_X_3_5mm_bullet_Multistar_ESC_Power_Breakout_Cable.html
Just mount kinda harpoon in front and jam it into the plane to be rescued. Sometimes you'll miss the lipo, sometimes not 😜 Don't need a rescue boat at all, but ... (go buying pool noodles)
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thanks for your great videos which inspired me to have a go prior to risking my Tundra on floats! I made a few tweaks ... used a bigger box as the centre of the frame so there's no deck, and used two motors with reversing ESCs and trick mixing on the Taranis. I needed to move the Lipo right back and add a bit up up-thrust on the motors to stop the bows digging in (due to the high thrustline) but it goes pretty well now. I have everything (radio, ESCs, battery, LEDs) inside the box ... used 60A ESCs to reduce the risk of overheating (each motor pulls 15A on full throttle). Thanks again, Bill (UK). A very short video of mine: ruclips.net/video/YqhEDT9BN70/видео.html
Thank you taking time to provide that information. I will have to give it a try. I have two aircraft projects planned for this winter and hopefully I can build "your" boat next Spring. I am not sure, but I at least for now think that my Tactic radio will work. It will be a true learning curve for me........., but that is a good thing. Thank you again!!
Excellent Jim. Love learning new stuff, Keeps the old brain working
Andrew... This is an awesome build. I cant believe how well it goes across the water. I thought it would have been much slower. Great job.... A small trick I learned years ago was heating and bending PVC pipe. It would save on the cost of fittings. There are many ways to bend PVC pipe but I normally just use a heat gun. I am inspired by this video and have some spare motors and props and perhaps I could try building one too. Your design is great. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent, let me know how you go
My son and I put together one really quickly from parts we had at home. Not as zippy as yours but eh we had a good father son project. Still need to wire up the rev motor and adjust a few things but it floated ;) Thanks for the ideas.
Great to hear Andre, and it would only take a few mods to the floats and it would be a snow boat!
Mr Andrew :
Thanks very much for your time to answer my enquired. Also I find very usefould yor chanel ,thanks againg for your comments
As always, clever, inspirational and flawlessly executed. Don't want or like RC boats but this video makes me want to build one. I'd have sealed the cable hole in the lunch box with a blob of hot glue. Seems that would seal it better.
Yes it would. Silicone sealant would be even better, but I didn't want it to be that permanent at this stage
i'm currently putting a modified version together for the pool to pick up leaves! thanks for the idea mate! its also going to be solar!
Brilliant idea
I don't think I would have any need for this rescue boat, but damn it man ... now I want to build one!
Do it, you never know who or what will need rescuing
that looks like it will be fun all by its self
Sure is
VERY NICE OMG ITS FAST❗👍👍💛
👍
Tks i will get started on my recovery boat
Quick, the stranded boats need you
Put a sail on it attach it to a fishing line , you can even fish with it
I like your rescue boat. Can you send the plans or measurements in SAE.
No plans, just made it up as I built it.
Muy lindo pero si es para rescate le falta otro travesaño ( caño) inferior para que haga tope con la embarcacion que se rescata !
As I'm only using cheap speed controllers I'm going to see if conformal coating does the trick of waterproofing them. I have cut the covering off and given them several heavy coats of the acrylic coating I have had good experiences using on greenhouse automation electronics. I have also seen a video of a conformally coated 2.4GHz RC receiver working in a jam-jar of water - I always assumed 2.4GHz stuff would object to having anything sprayed on it never mind immersion!. I have an AR7000 receiver I bought for buttons so I might try the same experiment with that.
Fun experiment. Let me know how the ESCs stand up to.a swim
@@AndrewNewton Many thanks for the reply. The ESC experiment went well. Even fully immersed it seemed to work OK. I did think the start-ups might just have been a bit more ragged than when dry but, as you might expect from £10 ESCs, they are not the sweetest in this regard anyway.
Thanks for sharing this video!
Here in the UK I suspect I would only get blank looks if I tried to buy a "pool noodle". I hope that the grey pipe insulation that is obviously more in keeping with our weather will be an acceptable substitute 🙂
Haha, same stuff just different colour I suspect
@@AndrewNewton Many thanks for the reply. I'm still having fun with a sub 250g motor glider using a depron wing as per your instructions. Indeed I may go sub 250 completely as I machined my left thumb with a palm router (I should never have joked about them being for routing your palm 🙂) so I'm not too sure about my abilities on the left stick for more critical stuff.
Ouch. I shortened 3 fingers with a router and a biscuit joiner bit. Luckily they still work OK
@@AndrewNewton Oh hell! I was putting biscuit slots in oak planks when I had my accident. My family's gallows humour really helped - take a deep breath and count to 9, cancel the order for red mahogany stain, etc.
Hi Andrew could u tell me where to purchase the 3 way wire harness .andy Channel isles thanks.
HobbyKing and EBay www.ebay.com.au/itm/XT60-to-3-x-3-5mm-Gold-Bullet-ESC-Lipo-Battery-Cable-Quadcopter-Heli-Tricopter/171513670414
Attach an under water camera to it
Very nice build but I am still wondering how a rescue would be performed. How would you capture and tow a distressed plane or other object. Push the victim sideways maybe against the floaties? Design a makeshift pushbar on the front and/or back?
Push bar or loose line between the bows will be my first test. Then trying to encircle the seaplane with a line and manually pulling it back in.
ah, the lasso idea is a good one. maybe a long string with an empty water bottle for a float. drag it behind you, then just circle around the rescuee and capture it that way, and drag er back to you. nice.
Hello Mr. Newton
I just watched your build video for the R C Rescue boat. I am wondering if you could explain how you got the thrust vectoring and all of the mixes to work. I have made an R C Airboat for my rescue boat out of styrofoam, but it only has one motor and no reverse. I am interested in your reverse capability and also the vectored thrust. I have a 6 channel Tactic TTX650 radio, but I do not know if that would work for a project like this!! Thank you so very much for taking a moment to publish any information at all that you could pertaining to my inquiry here. It would be most helpful!
I don't know the Tactic radio. OpenTX mixing here ruclips.net/p/PLC8MdCMvxwBgLPft8sLfJ6W5Epx770rwT
Great vid thanks. I'd like to build a slower version and maximise run time. What is your run time currently? To max run time what is needed & what might be achievable? Could I add solar, if so what changes are required? Much appreciated 👍
Bigger batteries and careful throttle use is the easiest way to give longer run time. Check out RCtestflight for solar boats
@@AndrewNewton Hi Andy thanks for your reply. Do you think I could add a 10Ah 1.5kg battery to this setup and still get bouyancy & thrust? Could I perhaps then get 30mins low throttle? Thanks 😊
@@chrisdewar9659 You would get hours of run time with that battery.
How much would you charge me to build one for a catermeran Genesis boat rc ?
Not interested in building for money sorry
Hi Andrew just finished building one Caught up on the wiring part Can you give me a quick summary how to wire them up please
Excellent to hear. Each motor connected to an ESC then all three ESCs powered from one battery via a 3 way cable. Each ESC connecting to its own channel in the receiver with only one of the ESCs providing 5V
Andrew Newton thanks for that. I’m really not electronic minded at all and having some concern about the one esc powering the receiver and how I achieve that. What size battery do you recommend? Do the motors get connected by which method series or parallel? Cheers
Hi. What size battery was used.
@@petersymec5259 3S 3000mAH
Ain't it nice not to have to worry about weight, and to have plenty of space to stick more stuff on.... :)
Sure is, makes a change
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Thanks Andrew Newton
Great tutorial to build, much information
build my boat fpv
How much can weigh the boat?
A greeting and thank you very much for the information
No problem. It weighs 1.5kg without battery
Thank you Andrew Newton.
It is the thing I needed.
a greeting.
what size props are you using? What type of battery and how many? Thanks.
Did I forget to include that in the video? Check the next one
Hi there. Mine will only have two rear props. I'm not very electronically inclined so excuse the stupid questions. Do both esc's need to have bec's ? Also what size lipo are you using ?
Good questions, only one ESC needs to have a BEC (to provide 5V for receiver and any servos if you have them) Doesn't really matter if both have BECs but it's probably better to remove one of the red ESC servo cable wires so that only one is providing the 5V. I used a 3S 3000mAH Lipo
Hi, I have a question: what wind power in knots or kmh could this be reliable, and what about waves on sea? I was thinking to rescue DragonForce RG65 or IOM sailboats, could it be done with this or those IOM or DragonForce 65 boats are to heavy maybe?
thx, love your work...
Probably not suited to stronger wind, I only tested in 5kn or so. With more power and weight it would work
I built the boat (looks great) but I can't figure out "differential thrust" in you mixing video. My Spektrum DX7s does not seem to have "curves". Is the Turnigy TX, you use, the only one that can do curves and if so can you send a link.
Hi Ron, I'm using OpenTX which you can run on Turnigy 9X, 9XR Pro and Taranis. Higher end Spektrums must be able to do curves but I know nothing about Spektrum. Flite Test have done a video on differential thrust with Spektrum I think.
"You are an ideas man Andrew" :)
Some say he has too many ideas
Some would say many very good ones at that!
I can follow your RC Rescue Boat build till you combine the 3 motors to one harness. Can you explain in a little more detail?
3 motors, 3 ESCs (only one providing power to the receiver), plugged into 3 separate channels. The magic is in the mixing. ruclips.net/video/80iH9CsB5CM/видео.html
Thank you for the response, but I was not clear. How do you attach the 3 esc's battery lead to one battery, and is it parallel or series? I could not find a harness to buy. I am a newby !!
Oh yes, you can buy a 3 way breakout cable from Hobby King, or make one up yourself. www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__25479__XT60_to_3_X_3_5mm_bullet_Multistar_ESC_Power_Breakout_Cable.html
Now i know why my boat is too slow. I don't have Afro motors.
Afro motors?
7:07 Afro ESC 😮
Oh yes. Groovy man
How much dos it cost to build ,
About $20 for the frame. $120 for the electronics
LOL! Yes I do.
nice one! :)
can you give me a list of electronics that i need m motor & etc. thank you, richard
You could have kept the tri-motor and aero towed it or blew it back to shore!! :-)
Didn't think of that
Just mount kinda harpoon in front and jam it into the plane to be rescued. Sometimes you'll miss the lipo, sometimes not 😜
Don't need a rescue boat at all, but ... (go buying pool noodles)
Excellent, that made me laugh. My seaplane buddies would fly very carefully if that was the rescue option.
Great video! Can you make me one i will pay? LOL!
Ha, no you have to make it yourself
Will do the reverse thrust video ASAP
Keen to see it Stephen.
Its there now - a bit rough however I will do a better one soon
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thanks for your great videos which inspired me to have a go prior to risking my Tundra on floats! I made a few tweaks ... used a bigger box as the centre of the frame so there's no deck, and used two motors with reversing ESCs and trick mixing on the Taranis. I needed to move the Lipo right back and add a bit up up-thrust on the motors to stop the bows digging in (due to the high thrustline) but it goes pretty well now. I have everything (radio, ESCs, battery, LEDs) inside the box ... used 60A ESCs to reduce the risk of overheating (each motor pulls 15A on full throttle). Thanks again, Bill (UK). A very short video of mine:
ruclips.net/video/YqhEDT9BN70/видео.html
Fantastic, thanks for showing me