I've just picked up a pre-loved Smitty that's in darned good condition but that wants a bit of TLC as a winter project before I put her on the water. Mainly cosmetic, including a rename and a repaint to bring her into my fleet livery, and a few repairs here and there. I also want to give her a revamp under the hood.
Her running gear is a pair of 540's running on 6V, directly driving the 'as supplied' props. There's only one ESC, so I want to replace the electrics with a 4 channel rx/tx and two ESC's.
Any suggestions for what ESC's I should go for? Is it worth changing the perfectly OK motors for anything different, or running alternative motors on 12v, with reduction gear on the same props, perhaps.
Finally, I'm toying with the idea of a working towing winch, using the 'spare' radio channel. Thing that concerns me is that the winch is mounted on the removable deck with the superstructure. I have visions of the tug sailing off leaving the deck behind! Anyone fitted a winch on a Nederland, or towed with one? An if so, how did you do it?
Cheers
Andy