My First boat what was yours ?

[Joe Wiebelhaus]

Bill,
How is that new sport 40 looking ??

 

[Andy Greene]

My first boat was a 43" Sprintcat with CMB 90 Gran Prix. Jumped in with both feet.

Thats a fun boat - I drove a friends long before I started heat racing , It was a blast , years later I bought it and ran a 101 in it

 

[Tommy Lee]

First drove this Tommy Lee tunnel when I was about 8 or 9, so that's early 90s.
It's a little beat up now, lots of cracks from crashing into banks and bouys
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Mario-this brings back a lot of good memories. This was the 1st fiberglass production boat made by Leecraft, I think in 1980-81. This picture is the gen. 2 deck. The gen 1 deck did not have a cockpit and the NAMBA guys in CA. complained saying they had to have a driver and I built this deck. By the way, my first boat was a paddle boat that I made with a handsaw and pocket knife and ran it in a small creek that ran by not far from my house. Great fun for a boat that you could walk along the bank faster than the boat would go.

 

[Mario Johnston]

Thanks for the info, Tommy!
I passed that info onto my dad, as he gave me the boat to drive when I was a kid. I have no intentions of getting rid of it!

 

[Bill Gibson]

Dumas kits were my entry back in 1979-80 ,K&B engines like 6 packs of beer, what a mess....................

Those are great pics........you were quite the craftsman, even way back then!

 

[Bill Gibson]

Bill,
How is that new sport 40 looking ??

Exactly the same as the pics you posted! Im in WWAAYY over my head with other builds right now so it just sits there.......BUT I WILL GET TO IT LOL!!
Strangest looking race boat ive ever seen, but it sure is light, and I hear they are fast, and turn WELL!!

 

[John James]

Dumas Dragonfly 60. Only got it to run good one time, then sold it. Not the boats fault, the first motor I put into it was a water cooled Enya 60 nitro motor. Run like a tug boat!! The next motor was a Super Tiger 60 ABC. It screamed!!

 

[Paul Sokolovas]

Dumas Miss Thriftway with an .049., then a Dumas Miss Unlimited with a .40, then a Hughy .60 hydro, then a zippkits Rockett thunderboat, and finally a gas Warpath outrigger.

 

[JimZaremski]

one of them "1/12 scale " Pro Boat Miss Budweiser RTRs. the first one with the solid driveshaft and the plastic prop.

 

[Paulmousseau]

My first boat was a coyote 40 rigger from Don pinkert

 

[Mark Poole ModVP]

Well, I got into RC boats a little different than most. I had always been a lifesize boat race fan and by the mid 1980's my favorite OPC class was Mod-VP. The only RC boat that even resembled one was the International Hobbies 'Flying Wedge', a scale of the Starcraft 20. So, I set about the task of building a plug and mold of what I wanted, which was more like a Stoker SST. Learned a lot the hard way but was a good learning experience. Enjoyed running that boat for years. The big yellow boat was 39 inches long and ran surprisingly well with stock 7.5 outboard. Once I started racing I did pretty well racing tunnels. Once this current crap is over I am ready to do some racing again.

 

[Richard Dahlheimer]

My 1st boat was a Dager Boat Works shalow V bottom. Same co. that made the Stilleto canard. Had a OS max .46 with a Muck pipe, and a Muck wedge rudder. I wore out the OS, and went with a CMB conventional .45. I liked the steel rod, with needle bearings. Richard

 

[Walt Barney]

My first boat was Dumas sport 40 with a airplane engine and cool clamp and airplane radio, that I ran in crooked lake near Angola In.
then I saw a add in the paper that there was going to be a race in Ft Wayne, In. So I thought my boat was fast enough to win, man what surprise , then I met Steve Ball and he helped me to get the right engine and radio so I could race, The boat was so heavy that it would not finish a race even thou it was last place because it kept running out of fuel. then the big changes were made to a bigger tank and a OS MaX 46. still didn't win any races but at least it finished as long as I didn't do something stupid .

 

[Gary Lauer]

My first boat was a little earlier than most. In the late 40s,my dad gave me a big fiberglass or plastic boat with a royal spitfire .065. no throttle or cooling. I would start it and let it go, o yah no radio ether, I didn't have to worry about it because it wouldn't go that far before it would overheat and quit. Fast forward to the mid 70s. I built a Skidaddle two with a veco Mccoy 19 1/2 It ran great.

 

[Joe Wiebelhaus]

Those are great pics........you were quite the craftsman, even way back then!

The words PAY n PAK and stripes were hand painted, I repainted that hull 3 times, as a nube, I was perfecting the water cooled radio box theory in 1979, they always run their best just before they hit shore, or a rock, or a dock........................

 

[Bill Gibson]

The words PAY n PAK and stripes were hand painted, I repainted that hull 3 times, as a nube, I was perfecting the water cooled radio box theory in 1979, they always run their best just before they hit shore, or a rock, or a dock........................

HMMMMMM...seems I was doing the same thing at about the same time........ !If it wasn't for premade graphics anD waterslide decals, my boats would be just paint......I cant even hand paint a stick figure! No artistic abilities WHAT SO EVER!

 

[John Beardslee]

This was my first r/c boat, scaled down from one of my full sized outboards. K&B 40 pylon engine with a Kool Klamp. Surface drive with a steering strut. Few thought it would run.

 

[Buckshot]

My first ride was a .21 Avenger Hydro

 

[Buckshot]

My first ride was a .21 Avenger Hydro
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But I really wanted to drive my dads Twin Wing-Ding!

 

[Ray Sametz]

The words PAY n PAK and stripes were hand painted, I repainted that hull 3 times, as a nube, I was perfecting the water cooled radio box theory in 1979, they always run their best just before they hit shore, or a rock, or a dock........................

Water cooled radio box, that's some funny chit right their.