Did a leak test on the hull yesterday and had the running gear working, everthing works fine and I'm very pleased with the bow thruster that works just as it should, at this time I didn't have the 12 volt battery leads, so I had the 12v SLA battery in place and two nimh batteries connected to the ESC's this was fine for test purposes, but the main motors will run on 12 volt and as the bow thruster motor is only 7.2 volt I'll put a diode in the supply to the thruster ESC effectively halving the voltage, after 30 minuits there were no leaks, which is always nice.
so today the aft deck was bonded on, the fore end of this deck is over hung by the upper deck by approx 5" this will make painting in that area a bit of a pain so to make it a little easier I'm making the structures under that area in separate modules that will slide in place after painting, well that's the plan anyway.