Retreival boat I made
#1
Retreival boat I made
Figure since there is a section here I could post this up. I know there is some cross members between forums but this is for those who have not seen it.
Here is a retrieval boat I made to pick up our boats at the pond. Our buddy got tired of rowing after mostly his boat and sometimes ours. So with a little bit of backyard ingenuity the retrieval boat was born. Currently building another one to do all of your boats including a Rio51z, call it a proto-type or proof of concept. So far it runs for 24 mins straight on a 2200mah 3 cell lipo at 7 mph and has hauled a completely sub'd Miss Vegas at 15 lbs.
45 turn crawler motor, traxxas esc, crawelr ebay servo hacked as a winch 208 oz, Miss Vegas Shaft and prop, home made collet and drive stuffing tube (brass), 1/2" PVC, airplane tricycle front landing gear for rudder (shaft and horn) welded to a shaped piece of flat steal, and what nots.
Here is a retrieval boat I made to pick up our boats at the pond. Our buddy got tired of rowing after mostly his boat and sometimes ours. So with a little bit of backyard ingenuity the retrieval boat was born. Currently building another one to do all of your boats including a Rio51z, call it a proto-type or proof of concept. So far it runs for 24 mins straight on a 2200mah 3 cell lipo at 7 mph and has hauled a completely sub'd Miss Vegas at 15 lbs.
45 turn crawler motor, traxxas esc, crawelr ebay servo hacked as a winch 208 oz, Miss Vegas Shaft and prop, home made collet and drive stuffing tube (brass), 1/2" PVC, airplane tricycle front landing gear for rudder (shaft and horn) welded to a shaped piece of flat steal, and what nots.
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Last edited by vette66_00; 02-23-2012 at 09:07 PM.
#3
that's a pretty nice setup
#4
Haha its never fun to dunk it or have a flame out but this does almost make it bearable. At least you can harass the guy that has a boat floating from the shore, instead of watching him row out to awkwardly row it back in being careful not to damage the raft while bring it back in.
#6
That is really cool! Great engineering. What is the screening/netting material and how is it attached?
#9
We felt the same way after having a couple boats that just did not like to keep running and a buddy that was doing most of the rowing (I am fat and go in circles in a canoe cause I don't know what I am doing). This was born.
On a side note after this was made our boats seem to be running a ton better, last time out we did not use it once. LOL