Your First Boat. (Post a Photo Here)

[Kez]

My first boat was an Aerokits Sea Rover. I built it in the summer of 1970. It took me many months to save up enough to buy a Super Tiger C/L .15. I wrapped copper tube around the head for cooling. A Futaba 2 channel radio was too expensive so I set the rudder to make it run in large circles. I was hooked ever since.

Still have a picture of that bad boy huh? Nice build.

Roger, you Dad did a marvellous job in modifying the SK Daddle. I would never have guessed it was a Dumas Daddle. How did it run?

kez

 

[Roger Hooks Jr.]

My first boat was an Aerokits Sea Rover. I built it in the summer of 1970. It took me many months to save up enough to buy a Super Tiger C/L .15. I wrapped copper tube around the head for cooling. A Futaba 2 channel radio was too expensive so I set the rudder to make it run in large circles. I was hooked ever since.

Still have a picture of that bad boy huh? Nice build.

Roger, you Dad did a marvellous job in modifying the SK Daddle. I would never have guessed it was a Dumas Daddle. How did it run?

kez

It seem to run well. He had it set to run very slow being that I was just learning so it went slow very well....Hahahahaha! What it did very, very, well was not break when I ran it up on the shore. Which happened a lot... Hahahaha! I do remember he made it go faster and it seemed to handle then too. The next year though he got me a Prather .20 Deep Vee and that was the last I remember of that boat.

 

[charles siler]

Rodger what a cool idea! In 1977 coming home form work I heard a crazy motor sound comin off the lake near buy as I came through the trees was my first encounter with the Alaska RC boat club. The next day I bought this fiberglass boat with a 3.5 K&B outbord and one of the new futaba box radios with the stiring wheel . At the time it was the coolist! Heres my pics as a Newbie

Charles, I have a soft spot in my heart for RC boat of that vintage. But I do not reconize that boat. Any idea who made it? And how did it handle?

I am re-building an OB 7.5 vee for sentimental reasons.

Thanks,

kez

Kez man no idea who made that vee it was built realy nice . My best guess it arowmarine . Anchorage house of hobbies carried there products then and know . It was real stable and eazy to assemble.I made the servo box out of plywood and fiber glass. Sorry that I couldnt be more help Charles

 

[Ronald van Essen]

Don't know if its a coincidence or not,

my first Rc boat, same as Grimracers

The K&B ist the one with the sliding throttle.....

 

[XtremeRcBoats]

my first boat was a Graupner Key Biscane with an Os-Max 32 engine. Got if for my birthday in 1988. Sold the engine but still have the boat.

Lateron I bought a Dumas Hot Shot IV with an K&b21.

 

[Grimracer]

Ronald.. great old boat for sure..

Grim

 

[SayMikey]

Don't know if its a coincidence or not,

my first Rc boat, same as Grimracers

I had the same flat nose HotShot .

 

[Joe Wiebelhaus]

Dumas Sport 40's and Sport 20, Scales 1980 and on..

 

[Rhonda Pickard]

My first boat was a Lap Cat 2 it was a fun boat to learn on, Robert

 

[Roger Hooks Jr.]

Don't know if its a coincidence or not,

my first Rc boat, same as Grimracers

I think I have only driven an outboard once in my life and that was only because that happened to the boat controlled by the transmitter handed to me while visiting and all outboard race... hahaha... but I like the man in the cockpit and I've always liked the boats with more realism. Always appreciated efforts to make the boats look more scale. Nice boat. I do remember a lot of these types of outboards back in the day.

 

[Roger Hooks Jr.]

Dumas Sport 40's and Sport 20, Scales 1980 and on..

Nice work on the scale look especially Chip Hanauer's Blue Blaster and Beer Wagon runs. He was my favorite driver after Bill Muncey.

 

[Bill Gibson]

My first boat was a Dumas Hot Shot/K&B 3.5 O.B./exhaust throttle....cant find a pic of it...but ive still got the 2nd boat i built....Its a 20 sized PaynPak. the motor is a K&B 3.5 car engine with a cool clamp....the radio is a Futaba 2 stick on 26.995....it STILL works!I think the prop on the boat is a Jimmy Gale F-20....like HJ,s boat, the first engine i used was an airplane engine..an O.S. 20 just kinda pushed the boat around, but when i stuck the K&B car motor in it....it was FUN! I also still have the first boat i got a trophy with..its an 82 or 83 Coyote...57 dollars shipped from Don Pinckert! I remember i could call him ANYTIME i had a question about the boat....a super nice guy! The boat has a poor mans race motor in it..K&B 3.5 shnuerle ported airplane engine with a water cooled head, O.B. carb, and a home made header made of steel and copper pipe fittings, silver soldered! No pipe pressure...ran just fine! The old Wheel radio also works..if you right handed guys had a hard time working this radio, you shoulda tried it LEFT HANDED! What a HANDFUL! I miss those days..they really were alot of fun! I still remember Larry Beals and Al Ingman throwing my ass in the pond after i got my first trophy with my trusty ol Coyote!

 

[Roger Hooks Jr.]

View attachment 43327View attachment 43328View attachment 43329My first boat was a Dumas Hot Shot/K&B 3.5 O.B./exhaust throttle....cant find a pic of it...but ive still got the 2nd boat i built....Its a 20 sized PaynPak. the motor is a K&B 3.5 car engine with a cool clamp....the radio is a Futaba 2 stick on 26.995....it STILL works!I think the prop on the boat is a Jimmy Gale F-20....like HJ,s boat, the first engine i used was an airplane engine..an O.S. 20 just kinda pushed the boat around, but when i stuck the K&B car motor in it....it was FUN! I also still have the first boat i got a trophy with..its an 82 or 83 Coyote...57 dollars shipped from Don Pinckert! I remember i could call him ANYTIME i had a question about the boat....a super nice guy! The boat has a poor mans race motor in it..K&B 3.5 shnuerle ported airplane engine with a water cooled head, O.B. carb, and a home made header made of steel and copper pipe fittings, silver soldered! No pipe pressure...ran just fine! The old Wheel radio also works..if you right handed guys had a hard time working this radio, you shoulda tried it LEFT HANDED! What a HANDFUL! I miss those days..they really were alot of fun! I still remember Larry Beals and Al Ingman throwing my ass in the pond after i got my first trophy with my trusty ol Coyote!

Those are some nice boats. I really like the Sport 20 boat.

 

[Bill Gibson]

Thank you Roger.....thank GOD for Pactura Formula U rattle can paint! Thats all i could afford to paint the Pak with back in those days!!

 

[Andy Greene]

The very very first was one of those 9.95 ebay twin motor pos's to run in the apt complex pond in 02/03 or so -

Thankfully no photo's exists -_-

The first real boat was this BBY Oval Master 21 - 6 or 7s Hacker brushless on a 3500 6 cell nimh pack - way pre lipo . It really looked like it hauled the mail in the little pond at the apt, took it to Brandon my first visit there and never got it out of the car

 

[RodneyPierce]

Bill, nice boats. But what I find very cool is the pictures in the background. The one on the far left reminds me of me and my daughter. She points just like that! Too darn cool man!!!

 

[anthony_marquart]

my first was a kyosho nitro viper.. POS,.. I guess I still learned alot. Then a lapcat1, that was fun big step,.. slow old tank it was,.. no pipe,. ran it alot.. then a seaducer sub surface 45,.. then a micoburst 45sprint, with a EVO67, then a AM sprintcat, then started .12 riggers started with a FF12,.. designed and built about 20,.. then .21 riggers... an old original eagle,.. (which I think would still run pretty good) then designed and build about 15 21 riggers... built, ran,.. changed,.. over and over.. now 45 riggers and sport20 and sport40... sometimes I wish I had kept them all.. dont know where I would put them!!!

Not my first as the thread suggests.. but I like thinking about them all..

 

[LarryConrad]

Maybe it's because I started out with three boats, that I can't seem to stop collecting so many now. All the local RC car tracks ceased to exist in my area back in the mid 90's so I traded a well used chain drive Custom Works Dominator and a original Associated Gold tub RC10 that survived 3 of my 4 children racing the wheels off it to a buddy of mine from one of the airplane clubs up in Bemidji for a Dumas 20 size pay and pak with a side exhaust HP or HB. A .45 size Dumas fiberglass mono with an OS .46VRM and a Wood Dumas Hotshot .45 with a 7.5 K&B. I don't recall what ever became of the Pay and Pak, but I sold the side exhaust engine out of it on ebay a few years back for$100.00 on a no reserve started at a penny auction. :lol: The Hotshot had a wicked twist in the hull that I tried unsuccessfuly several times to remove. The mono I gave away to someone after joining the TCMBC as nobody in the club at that time was racing anything larger than .21 boats. I've been camera shy most of my life...no pictures.

 

[Bill Gibson]

Bill, nice boats. But what I find very cool is the pictures in the background. The one on the far left reminds me of me and my daughter. She points just like that! Too darn cool man!!!

Rodney, its hard to believe that lil cutie is now 13 years old! SIGH!..THATS why some of us kinda preach the deal about how every minute counts!.....Haley would point at EVERYTHING and say WASSAT?? Sometime i gotta bore ya to death with the story of the picture in the middle, which would be my 3 older granddaughters when we played with Grampys airboats....BOY! Did i set the example for what NOT to do with an R/C airboat right in front of all 3 of em!!

 

[larcor69]

Been enjoying reading everyones post, My first boat I built was from a neibors plane kit that was gave to me,after seeing pic's in a magizene I used the wood and made my own outrigger, I was about 12-13 at the time,1975-76 used a Cox .049 engine from a C/L plane I had and the fuel tank from a sand blaster car, got a dumas running hardware kit from the hobby shop, had a flywheel,cool clamp,universal,shaft,prop and rudder, made it run circles at the near by pond, then after I was a little older built a Dumas short stuff with a OS 10 cool clamp and a Futaba brown box wheel radio, then about 1983 Built a Dumas Comp.21 mono with a K&B 3.5 had this boat for a long time, it ran best with an OPS .29 and remounted the strut to surface drive ...I do have a pic of that boat!!...good Ol'days..lol I also found a pic of the Dumas Miller American I built I got one of the first one's when dumas offered the kit in 86/87