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[Bill D203]

Mines coming along.

[Bill D203]

Inside my boat.

[2772e]

Looking good Bill, have you run  her yet?

Have you got a bulkhead?

BW

Simon

[Bill D203]

Hi Simon.
Yes it's going well . I have lots of small jobs to finish. Maybe i will get some done on Saturday, if Her indoors dose not want me to do the Christmas shopping.
I am trying not to put a bulk in as I may well fit a ballasts tank + pump in the front. I have got loads of foam float stuff to fit in. That should keep her from going under.
As and when she dose take to the water I will see if I can get a video of the event.

[pete_486]

hi bill it's looking nice hoping to see the maiden soon lol.

Pete

[Bill D203]

Well that day has come when weeks of work have been placed in that big lake. Pity about the rain but it did little to dampen my spirits. The engine was started after a little pulling on the starter rope, dumped in the water and off see went . Not bad I was thinking, When this woman who must have got out of bed the wrong side started to rant a rave about the smell, up setting the wildlife. In Stevenage i took it be all the local youth but they was all in bed. No she meant the Ducks!! Sill Blow it all I was having a lot of fun. A few things to short out, but things are looking real good for next years OMRA racing. Cheers for now Bill.

[2772e]

Bills Makara fisrt run.

Video link to Utube.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aob31iLFNV0

Well done Bill

[Stavros]

Ducks being disturbed, funny the one in the video deos not seem that bothered

Stavros

[pete_486]

its running quite well for its first run.
on my first run i opened her up, and it lept out of the water on its prop and could not keep the front down and it took weeks to set up even Kurt was baffled by it.
on further inspection there were two large rockers near the transom, so i got the heat gun out and put trim tabs on.
now it will not turn left.

Pete

[Bill D203]

Hi Pete. Yes Very happy apart from a transmiter full of water. Still it's now drying out on my rad indoors.  ::) I will have to reset it all agian. Oh well all the fun of boating in the rain

[AC RAZOR 45]

Hi Bil yes good maiden run,mine to like Pete's had rockers in the hull but removed them in the build now with adjusted trim tabs runs well at turns well both ways,i look forword to seeing you at the odd race next year...al

[2772e]

AL

Talk to me about these rockers?

Simon

[omra85]

Simon
"Rockers" are big hairy bikers from the 60's.  If they had a couple on the back of the boat - it's no wonder it didn't go 
Hope they removed them politely!
Danny 

[2772e]

Thanks Danny, can allways rely on you top look at things from a totally different angle!

Hows that Magnum coming along. Want me to fit it out for you, and add the paint?

BW

Simon

[Bill D203]

Hi Simon
I was in the RED Bull F1 place today, showed them your pic's of your boat and video. There paint sprayers seemed to like what they saw.
Bill

[glennb2006]

its running quite well for its first run.
on my first run i opened her up, and it lept out of the water on its prop and could not keep the front down and it took weeks to set up even Kurt was baffled by it.
on further inspection there were two large rockers near the transom, so i got the heat gun out and put trim tabs on.
now it will not turn left.

Pete

Hmm,

I had until very recently a Panther that would not turn left. I mean, full left rudder and nothing happened at all. As soon as you shut the throttle it would turn, but not until then.

I cured it eventually, at least it seems like I have. If I get some flat water in the next week or so I will try it flat out and see what happens, but so far 100% better.

Those Makara's seem to go well.

Glenn

[2772e]

Glenn,

I had a similar problem racing at Bristol this year. It turned out to be the servo, i changed it and it was fixed?

Regards

[glennb2006]

Mine was a trimming issue. Took half an hour to sort, just needed the drive moved over. And a rudder adjustment.

Glenn

[pete_486]

ive just put a hitec hs-805bb 25kg of torque at 6v on the rudder and that was the last run and still no left.
hence the bent sign 

Pete

[martno1fan]

Maybe you got your rudder too far over to the right ? also try a longer rudder could also be prop walk ? is the prop sharp i know the last ones probably a no brainer but  if its none of those things then your hull has a serious hook in it somewhere ?.As it seems more than one has this fault maybe you need to send it back to nimriff? .My mates cat was a complete disgrace from them and it went back for a refund (after solicitors got involved).Werent you singing the praises of this boat a week or so ago yet it wont turn left i find that strange,so its not quite as good as you reckoned then?.

[martno1fan]

What prop are you running? sounds like it could be a lifting prop which could be making it bow steer?.Also have you painted the hulls bottom? this can also alter things for the worse,also check your strut is dead stright with the keel line maybe its twisted slightly to the right ?.MY MONEY IS THAT BIG PROP TRY A SMALLER ONE AND ILL WAGER THE LEFT TURNS COME BACK  .

[martno1fan]

Read this,lifting props if its octura has no letter on it you need one with a v or an x on it for a non lifting prop.Anyway read this lot and maybe you will find your problem.maybe your rudder is too short? mine was on my woody so i made a longer one?.
http://www.modelpowerboat.com/RC_Boat_Hull_Attitude

[Blagmeister]

Well finally my Makara hull has arrived together with some of its bits and pieces, albeit I am going to have to hang fire on a lot of the work until I get the engine mounts which could be another week or two.  [I don't want to start mucking about with the tube until I have got the engine in. Dunno if this is right but it strikes me that I need to get things lined up reasonably well, first time].

I had a good look at the hull and it seems to be ok [with the exception of a couple of gelcoat flaws in the topsides which a bit of judicious gelcoat filler should sort out.  The hull itself seems to be free from any flaws going by eye but until I get a decent straight-edge on it, I won't be sure.

This is going to be my first build so Simon, stand by to be bombarded with seemingly stupid questions!

I'll do a full pictorial on it as the build progresses, [if that sort of thing goes down well here?]

Cheers

Phil

[Bill D203]

Hi Pill
Good to here your boat has come in at last. Re engine mounts. Are you fitting stringers? I did on mine using 9mm ply.  It adds a little weight bur it all so strengthens up the hull. Re the gel coat. Snap. It would be interesting to know where yours are to compair the two boats. Who's running gear are you using? I used the gear that Paul suppled which seem's to be OK on it's first outting last week.
If I can be any help just sing out.
Bill Warder. :-\

[Blagmeister]

Hi Bill

I hadn't planned on fitting stringers. I was going down the route of glassing in the mount bases to the hull. Paul at Nimrif suggested this method was much more preferable to using ply stringers and on the basis that he has far more experience than me, I thought I'd take his advice!

Having said that, I'll give this method a go and if it doesn't perform as well as hoped then I may well look at a future build using stringers but perhaps made from a composite material. [No possibility whatsoever then of the stringers becoming soft through water ingress].

As for the gelcoat flaws, I have a few creases on the topdeck, port side.  Nothing too serious and a bit of P40 should sort it. When it's been painted and lacquered, I don't think they will show at all.