Stupid moments in R/C Boating.....

[topfuel443]

Anybody ever do something that was just plain stupid when it comes to boats? sure you have, lets hear em.

Heres mine for the week:

Was out running my newest scratchbuilt rigger yesterday after completing it the night before. brand new Road runner extreme cowl that I was using on it came off after a hard stuff right in front of launch dock. I was in no particular hurry to get to the cowl because i installed a small peice of "styrofoam" on the underside the night before. I get about 20 feet from it in the jon boat and my buddy yells to me that the cowling just went under the water ??? ???

I managed to dive and get the cowl because it was only about six feet to the bottom, and didnt want to waste 30.00 for a new one. "styrofoam" is still there but a much bigger peice now......

the night before, I had mistakenly picked up an old sponge used to clean soldering iron tips and cut the small peice out of it , that had dried and was hard like styrofoam and looked just like the klegecell that we use to build sponsons with..... guess what? sponges absorb water Stupid, now I know.

~ James

 

[ClayGlover]

lol... that sponge story's a hoot ;D

last weekend i nodded to the guy to launch my 45 rigger before i realized that i hadn't set my radio to the proper model number. it was set to my 20 mono and the "left"was to the right and vice-versa. that was a wakeup call real quicklike ;D i bent the hell out of my best prop too :

 

[topfuel443]

Clay, I did that at the last race we were at also, same thing, had it set on my tunnel but was running my rigger. left was right and right was left......embarrasing.

one radio for all your boats is great as long as you remember to change the model. ~ james

 

[_laxmasta2039]

howabout this........

i was breaking in my .21 OB rigger, and it sometimes had a tendency to start running backwards when it hit hard compression, so we had alot of "false starts"....one time we got it started, checked to make sure it was running the right way, and gave it a toss and it sped off for about ten yards then flipped...when we brought it back in i noticed the onboard battery wasn't turned on!! i still wince when i think about what would have happened if that wave hadnt flipped it!

Joe

 

[PHIL THOMAS]

Once up on a pond we had a guy start his new 3.5 OB with it screamming he rushed to the water and screwed up and threw his transmitter in the water. Thats the funniest one i have ever heard LOL..

 

[ClayGlover]

naw!! come on phil, your pullin our legs!! lmao!!

;D ;D

 

[_laxmasta2039]

thats hilarious!!

he shoulda had someone launch for him, but still i'd be pretty embarrased if that happened....pretty steamed too especially if it was a 200-300$ radio!!

Joe

 

[MarkScott]

Story #1..

Both my wife and I run boats. She kept bug'n and bug'n me on one subjet.. What happens when you lose a motor.. Need to know, at that time, we only had 3.5 tunnels. I kept telling her the same thing, I've been running boats for 10 years and have "NEVER" lost a motor.. Something always held the motor when the mount broke.

Well, it was a beautify day, no clouds or wind, water was like glass, her boat was just flying. We had been at it for over a hour and I was just starting mine up so we'd be running together when I heard this terrible sound. SMACK... I turned around to see the end results. Boat was up-side down. She went and got the boat.. When she was coming back, I knew something was wrong.. At shore, she picked up the boat, Dumas wood Sprint and held it up.. Where's the motor I asked.. That's when she held up the log... Sad to say, the motor had gone to Davey Jone's locker... :-[ Needless to say, all of our boats now have a safety harness. ;D

In the pic, you can see where the foot took out some of the wood. Looked like a hatchet job to me!

 

[MarkScott]

Story #2

At the pond, my wife's (why is it always her ??? ;D) boat had died far from shore.. Our friend started up his boat to run. I didn't mind since her boat was so far away.. Both my wife and I, on opposite sides of him, kept telling him "dead boat".. He threw his boat out and proceded directly towards her boat. As he was driving his boat, still directly towards her boat, we were getting louder and in his face (almost) "dead boat".. Well, he ran right into it.. At that point, he looked at me, then her, and then said, "oh, was that your boat?".. If looks could kill, he would have been dead on the spot. The boat, a Steve Muck's Lil' Light'n, had the top/bottom seam split open about 45%.. Lucky for him, he retrieved both boats and stated that he would repair and paint the boat. Never ran the same again..

We asked him why did he go directly towards her boat.. He thought it was a duck.. He quickly got called every name in the book.. One thing ya don't do, is to go after wild life.. Those pencil pushers will quickly close ya down for that kinda crap.

 

[MarkScott]

Story #3.

Same friend as in #2 launched a brand new fg sport 40, brand unknown now. Lovely paint job as he works at a body repair shop. I asked him if he had put any floatation in.. Nope, just going to see if the settings are close was the comment back. Well, the first corner, the boat rolled and sank within 5 minutes.. Smoke was roll'n from his head. It didn't even make it 50 feet. He went and got a friend that was a diver, but the boat was gone. Diver stated even though it was only 20 feet deep, he couldn't see his hands in front of his face..

 

[Finne]

oh man. Since the topic is "stupid" and not "Funny" i'd say thatone takes the price.

You must have some impressive angermanagement ;D

 

[Chris Wood]

Two years ago i was at the hydro masters in indy.. running my 67 sg... wouldn't lauch all day changed props head clearence everything... i decided i was done. finally got the motor out of the boat.. ( take in mind it is ten mins before my next race ) and this is a cmb evo motor with a two pc crank..

started to pull it apart.. got the cranck apart and pulled the rod and piston out.. hmm pistion went right throught the sleeve.. it was shot.. so i scattered me and dad found a piston that fit.. put it back to gether.. got it runnning and bam we was called up to race... went out raced won the heat.. that put me 2nd.. one race left and all i had to do is start because the guy in first could not run the last round...

i put a good prop on.. got ready to go.. clock starts i told dad throw it hard, had a big wheel on there..

well he wound up thru it right up on the left side of the bank and broke the boat... lol talk about a day...

chris

 

[Ian Inverarity]

Well, there was the moment last weekend where I just put the glowdriver on my 90 and it started with no other input from me. That would have been okay, except I had just been flushing fuel out of the motor so the radio was off, the throttle had been manually set to full and the fuel line was pinched off. Result: VERY high revs for a 90. I shut it down by blocking the exhaust, but after I restarted it and ran half a lap the steel rod broke and the engine was destroyed! : Moral of the story: Always be ready for the engine to start when you put the glow driver on.

But my worst 'Stupid Moment' happened a few years ago after I sold my 45 SG rigger to a friend. He had radio trouble (not with the gear I had in it I must add!) with it on its first run and lost control of it doing circles at partial throttle. It was still up on plane but not going really fast. The wind was pushing the circles towards rocks, and not wanting to see my old boat smashed to pieces so soon after selling it, I got out the pole we use to retrieve boats to try to hook it. I missed a few times and realised I needed to stop it or it would hit the rocks on the next pass so I put the pole down in its path instead of trying to hook the booms as it went past. So the boat ran up the pole and hit me! Fortunately the cuts I received on my ankle from the prop were minor, it could have been a lot worse! Since then my attitude to out of control boats has been "Let 'em burn!" My advice is dont try to stop one as they are very dangerous. :

Nitrocrazed racing: Counting the boating scars.

 

[offshoremodels]

Got you all beat one day a guy showed up to the pond with is boat and a bow and arrow. I said what are you going to do with the bow he said watch.so he starts his boat and runs it to the middle of the pond and stops it. He picks up the bow ties a line to the arrow that goes to a zebco real and aims and whoosh off goes the arrow. Well as I am holding my stomach I say its a direct hit. It sure was right though it. That was the funniest thing I ever seen in my life.

 

[Richard Mancilla]

and the winner is Eddy.

 

[ScottVanSlooten]

I had a trophy made up for just this occasion. It is a horses ass with a plate that says the EDDY award And is taken home by the guy that mess's up the worst for the day and must that and display that next race if you have it the week befor a race. We have a lot of fun with it . Scott

 

[topfuel443]

Yeah, Scott we do the same thing in our club, Crash of the moth award winner gets to take the horses ass with him to every event during the month until the next poor sob crahses. not the type of traveling trophy you want to win! ~ james

 

[PHIL THOMAS]

OK you liked the last story so how about the time we were out in the middle of the mississippi river on a island running boats in circles. My boat came down the front straight and kept on going right down the river. It was out of sight before we could man a chase boat. Later the search and rescue crew ask some kids along the shore if they saw any rc boat they saw it crash and one of the kids took it home they brought it back ok. This was back in the 70s so you can guess the quality of radio i had...

 

[Ron Olson]

I've seen some boners done but here is mine. I was getting to run my DPI 7.5 tunnel at the Toxic Pond and noticed a little piece of green wire sticking out of the bag that held the reciever. not thinking of what it was, I launched the boat while Eric held the TX. It headed across the pond while Eric was yelling that he had no control. It missed the small channel to the River, hitting an embankment, going airborne landing in the River. I grabbed the Stroke boat and chased it down the River finally getting it. The motor mount had snapped so that it was hanging on by the linkage and the cowling was floating also. The hard part was trying to row back upstream, the water was faster than it lloked. The green wire that I saw earlier was the FM antenna wire, about 1" long. The reception isn't very good being that short.

 

[EatMyShortsRacing]

Gee I might even have a story too.

I was running my 90 Mono (Multi boat or FSR for all you non americans) and the race was getting late in the day and there was a shadow over the far side of the lake. The boat had had problems stalling all day so I wasnt surprised when I was trying to overtake another boat at the furthest turn that only one boat made it out of the corner. I head back to my starting area and put my transmitter down and walk down near the lake to watch the rest of the race when someone shouts "incoming". A boat came straight towards the bank at full throttle and went whistling past my legs as it beached itself 5 metres from the lake's edge. I looked up at the driving stand and yelled who was the *^%(@#head driving that boat? Then looking at the boat that just beached itself something looked very familiar. It was my boat. The boat I was trying to pass had stalled out there, not mine.

EMS Racing We dont make mistakes, we perfect them!