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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.

[Backerther]

I have just taken up some unusual pics of clash between the boat and the waves fiercely in the second day of trial run.
These still images may illustrate concretely what the collision be at the moment that is normally not to be confirmed nor acknowledged clearly on the spot.
These pics are really just like hi-speed photos.
These still pics are so informative for me who have been enjoying sailing on the lake, to analize how the model boat be influenced by the rough waves at the collision or on high speed sailing or steering.

Oh,my goodness, she disappeared really leaving only large splash in the pic1.!!!
An Oerlikon 20mm gun mount and davit crane have already been removed or fallen down on the deck after the collision
as if she were in the typhoon or the North Atlantic sea in the winter..?

Enjoy the pics of clash.!

[Backerther]

Shocking pics to have lost a 20mm gun and its operators as well as a davit in detail on the rough water test..


1; In the beginning, a clash with waves fiercely
2; A little while later, the gun and davit looked to have disappeared aboard the hull..!!!!
3; Clashes were taken place repeatedly all the way ...
4;Finally I felt easy to have noticed the fittings sitting on the stb side in a piteous manner as in the pic...  


How lucky I am!!!    No loss of fittings at all in spite of terrible waves of the lake.!!

[swiftdoc]

Really stunning photos, Kiyo!! Pic 1 looks as if the boat capsized?! Fortunately it all ended well

[Backerther]

Hi Arno,
Thank you for your comment.
The boat never capsized at all, but a 20mmOerlikon gun and davit were damaged as seen in the pics below.

You can easily imagine by the video below lively how the boat struggled with the rough waters in the second trial run.
Please enjoy the video.
The damage around the 20 mm gun and davit might have taken place right after 25 second past from the beginning when the boat clashed with the waves fiercely...
This trial run partly became a seaworthiness test unexpectedly and unintentionally as the result.!!!
A trial run on the water is always challenging, isn't it.?! Because the 1/1 very nature of water is always the very final and severe judge for a RC scale boat built with much efforts by a modeller.

https://youtu.be/gQFAzRfUU6U

Kiyo