Where did YOU start

[VenomCC]

Since we are going back in time. Here is where I got my start in R/C boats. It's been 18 years ago and I can't remember what make tunnel it was and I think the other was called a War Machine. The mono was one I threw an outboard on for my son. I handed him my air brush and he had a blast painting it.

 

[misshydro]

started with a cheap NQD hydro then two weeks later got my first nitro Miss Bud off of ebay....

 

[chris1088]

I started with a Seahawk by Jerry Dunlap with a TT.21 and i still have the hull I'll have to dig up some photos

 

[Ron Olson]

Wow, way back about 30-1/2 years ago.

I bought a Dumas DV 10 and dropped a Cox TD .051 in it, very disappointing. I bought a Dumas OB tunnel, the Hot Shot 24 I think that it was then a Hughey .21 'rigger, both of them I never finished. I started following this college kid around to the races in the area named Dave Homer back when Midwest, Hughey and Dumas OB tunnels were starting to be the thing to have.

I got out of boats for a while and went back to crashing planes and running on and off-road cars and trucks before returning to boats about 14 years ago. I got into OB tunnels again with a couple of electrics before getting into nitro.

 

[camaroboy383]

lol... im a young buck,,, tower hobbies turbo vee was my first rc boat ever... within a month i was onto a kyosho viper with (if i remember correctly) a gp .15 dang engines had brass bushings on the crank instead of bearings,,, that engine wore quick,,, ecspecialy with me tellin my buddies," lean is mean".....lol....

brings back memories....lol...

alden

 

[jetpack]

First boat was a half-gallon cardboard carton of milk cut lenghthways in half with one D-cell battery with scotch taped leads to a plastic outboard cliped on the back of it that always waited for the next rain for some good mud puddles.

Actually my first r/c is an abs sprint that does good with lots of weight with my KB SS.

 

[Tom Foley]

Dumas Drag N Fly 40 with HB 61 sideblower with a Nitro pipe , 3 piece hard shaft ...first year went through 3 motors and about 6 cranks and rods just messing around ..I'll scan some pics in later .

 

[carlnoki]

My first boat (no pictures) was a Luis Durand 20 outboard Water Spider rigger.

hogged out the exhaust outlet on the K&B 21, ran 50% fuel and a JG E-20T.

Ran like crazy. loved that boat. The guys in the club named it the 2 X 4 due to it not

having the cowl. that's what it looked like out on the water come to think of it.

Carl

 

[Mike Larson]

Dumas ABS sprint... KB 13mm, which I grenaded a half dozen times, after the LHS sent me home witha can o' KB 50 speed fuel...... around 10 years ago easy..... It's now in landfill heaven, as I let another boater run it over with his 4X after it frustrated me testing for the final time...... things have come a long way.....

 

[Bill Gibson]

Dumas Hot Shot full nose tunnel/ K&B exhaust throttled 3.5 Outboard/ JG E-20 prop/ Futaba 2 stick brown METAL box radio,26.995.....I believe the year was 1979......still have the radio,rx, servos,and switch and it all still works as good as the day i got it!! I have paper pics of the boat, but dont know the process to transfer to the computer.....but i still have the second boat i built and will try to post pics of that when i get home tonight!! I LOVE THIS STUFF!!

 

[Norm Doerr]

Okay I will bite.

1976 Dumas Deep Vee 40-

1977 Dumas Hot Shot Kaboom .21 outboard (Jim Gale Props)

1978 Dumas Atlas /Pay and Pack 1978 OPS .65

1979 Precison Boat Manufacturing (Marty Davis) El Diablo Outboard Kaboom .21

1980 Crapshooter 40 Kaboom 45/OPS 40 Speed.

1981 Motocross, Drag Racing, Snowmobiles and Girls

1982-Figured out Girls required just as much maintainence as all the machines in the shop.. but you can't leave them in the Garage alone why you try to figure them out.

 

[Zach Davis]

Okay I will bite.

1976 Dumas Deep Vee 40-

1977 Dumas Hot Shot Kaboom .21 outboard (Jim Gale Props)

1978 Dumas Atlas /Pay and Pack 1978 OPS .65

1979 Precison Boat Manufacturing (Marty Davis) El Diablo Outboard Kaboom .21

1980 Crapshooter 40 Kaboom 45/OPS 40 Speed.

1981 Motocross, Drag Racing, Snowmobiles and Girls

1982-Figured out Girls required just as much maintainence and all the machines in the shop.. but you can't leave them in the Garage alone why you try to figure them out.

They also get mad when you take another out for a test drive.

Zach

 

[Bill Gibson]

Okay I will bite.

1976 Dumas Deep Vee 40-

1977 Dumas Hot Shot Kaboom .21 outboard (Jim Gale Props)

1978 Dumas Atlas /Pay and Pack 1978 OPS .65

1979 Precison Boat Manufacturing (Marty Davis) El Diablo Outboard Kaboom .21

1980 Crapshooter 40 Kaboom 45/OPS 40 Speed.

1981 Motocross, Drag Racing, Snowmobiles and Girls

1982-Figured out Girls required just as much maintainence and all the machines in the shop.. but you can't leave them in the Garage alone why you try to figure them out.

They also get mad when you take another out for a test drive.

Zach

JUST ASK TIGER!!!! :lol:

 

[Chris Wood]

Sytler 45 mono with a rossi either 67 or 80.. I forget what it was.. come off bouy 5 lost the rudder ( dad says otherwise lol ) hit the bank landed on the 2 lay road behind me still running LOL!!! looked like the general lee on takeoff lol.

I was about 10 then

chris

 

[Kelly Miller]

Dumas DV 20 with a K&B Outboard. That was in 76 and Pops put together a 50 inch Daniels with a OPS 60, can you say HOOK. He used a piece of Mahogany to make the Deck. In 79 I got a Prather 40 and we ran a OPS 40. I remember a Modified Daniels hull that was being run then that was extreemely fast with a .67 Had a lot of fun. Ran a Sightler after the Prather.

 

[Big roy]

This will be my third year into boats. I started with me and my son buying a proboat Shockwave 36, nice boat! then the monster in me came out now I have a whole storage area full of newer and faster with a secret one for next spring.

 

[Grimracer]

See interview..

Grim

 

[Glenn Gates]

Andy you need to either edit your pics and make them smaller or use thumbnails for the pics in these posts.

There ya go Don-

Sorry you didnt like the way "tiny pic" decided to size my pics-

And once again thanks for ,

well you know ....................

Merry Christmas .

BTW You may want to get with Glenn and have him change size of the pic on his reply to me also ........

Besides telling you to ,,,, ,,,

Its the only thing santa couldnt fix tonight

You crack me up Andy. You gotta get up this way in 2010. Hope Santa brings you everything you want or at least what you need to finish the space shuttle.

Im glad you see the humor in your reply Don,

The shuttle is firewood - just for you and Rick

Dead subject in ashes ....................

Me and the old lady stayed mighty warm watching her burn !!!!!!!!

ANDY WITHOUT A SPACE SHUTTLE PROJECT? I won't hear of it!!! Sending you the shuttleII around Mid Jan.

Ya don't like it ya can give it Viking funeral

Glenn

 

[Glenn Gates]

Andy you need to either edit your pics and make them smaller or use thumbnails for the pics in these posts.

There ya go Don-

Sorry you didnt like the way "tiny pic" decided to size my pics-

And once again thanks for ,

well you know ....................

Merry Christmas .

BTW You may want to get with Glenn and have him change size of the pic on his reply to me also ........

Besides telling you to ,,,, ,,,

Its the only thing santa couldnt fix tonight

You crack me up Andy. You gotta get up this way in 2010. Hope Santa brings you everything you want or at least what you need to finish the space shuttle.

Im glad you see the humor in your reply Don,

The shuttle is firewood - just for you and Rick

Dead subject in ashes ....................

Me and the old lady stayed mighty warm watching her burn !!!!!!!!

ANDY WITHOUT A SPACE SHUTTLE PROJECT? I won't hear of it!!! Sending you the shuttle Too around Mid Jan.

Ya don't like it ya can give it Viking funeral

Glenn

 

[DickJones]

I wont live up to my very first e-bay 9.99 special - so we will start here

The first half real one was my Villian EX with all the mods for the day- lol

From there it went to the biggest joke rc EVER developed

The EX was much more fun BTW - LOL

I started with a tether boat at 9 years old, went to RC planes with a bonner push button brick radio, first Rc boat was a dumas tunnel with one of the first K&B 21 outboard with slide valve exhaust, then a eldeablo 21 hydro with the K&B 21 outboard,

seems like it was just yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!