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[Backerther]

I could happen to find a nice day for getting my boat on the water and took some memorial pics.!!
To my regret, it was cloudy though...
A model boat looks better on the water to my eyes..??
I really feel refreshing to see such pics of model boats floating calmly and/or sailing realistically...

[Backerther]

Here are the pics of sailing at slow speed since this was the first to sail after completion.
I just checked how she behaved on the water and went so so as usual for a fast scale pla-model boat.
The most anxious point was if the brushless motors were well cooled by the water and this was also very well done as seen
in the pic No3. The pic No3 shows sufficient drain of water from both sides of hull for this level of speed.
In the next step on the water, she will receive mainly a test of speed and its behaviours.

[swiftdoc]

Looking good for a first sail, Kiyo!

[Backerther]

Arno,
A great thanks for your quick reaction of kind comment.!!!


I'm so much satisfied with the clear pic of draining as greatly expected to do so.
Because in the early stages of trial runs of my first jet drive boat, cooling water wasn't necessarily drained/supplied sufficiently by which some brushless motors had been burned out..
But even this jet drive boat could be later improved successfully to drain well enough as seen in the following 2 pics, leading to a nice sailing performance with which I'm so satisfied.!!
I'm not a so-called speed mania,but had better know the ultimate performance of a model boat built with lots of efforts just like real ships/boats which have possibly been proved seriously and precisely in the trial runs before their deliveries, especially warships might be the cases..??    I usually have not operated my boats at full throttle, needless to say.

Kiyo

[Backerther]

Here is a YOU-TUBE video of my Japan Coast Guard model boat.



Bing 動画

[Shipmate60]

She looks great on the water, you have done a great job with her.


Bob

[Backerther]

Hi Bob,
So nice to have your kind comment on my boat.!!
She has been growing up and educated on the water currently as a RC serviceable boat on the lake under me, a trainer day by day.


Kiyo

[Backerther]

In the second day of trial run, the boat had happened accidentally to encounter the rough water and the trial run itself became a
speed test under the rough water, not under a fine day...!!!   Though it was so effective to practise both speed and rough water tests in one sailing or one day. 
The wind was blowing at 10km/h(6.3miles/h) that was a bit fierce for the small boat.

Attention to the Oerlikon 20mm single barrel gun mount and its operators as well as a davit crane in some pics.
The former one had been removed thoroughly while the latter collapsed after a lethal collision with big waves in the early stage of the first test sailing...   But she continued sailing on and on by ripping the waves largely with its nice bow as in the last pic.

Finally she did a very good job under the terrific weather.    A nice coast guard boat of Japan.