Don,
I flew RC planes when I was younger. As a matter of fact I built the first RC radio in my first plane. Remember the Heathkits? They had a RC radio you put together. Part of the receiver and the servo boards. Worked fine.
Now that we have a cottage up on the St. Lawerence I figured hey why not try out a boat. So I surfed the net. I was actualy looking for a hover craft to build. Got plans for one but never started. Then I got a ride in an air boat on one of the local lakes here. So I persued an airboat. While surfing the net on airboats I came across the models. This time I did start the project but only got about half way through when I found HMEM and now Madmodder so that boat building stopped in favor of stean engines. Anyway to make along story a bit shorter. I received a speed boat for X-mas a little over a year ago. I tried breaking in the motor at home and promptly broke the con rod. A year larter the replacement finally showed up. The guy from China must have used a row boat to get it here.

Anyway got her running now and have been having fun. Got one of my cottage neigboor interested in RC boats. Now he has one and we're going to have lots of fun this long holiday weekend. I hope to have some vids of the boat in the water. First though I need to train the wife how to take video's.

Back to the airboat for a minute. If you want to take a look at what I've got started as far as the airboat is concerned. Here's a direct link to my web site page:
http://www.kingstonemodeleng.com/ModelAirboat/First/first.htmI plan on building one with a weed eater engine after the one I started above.
But in the mean time I'm going with my speed boat and anoy the duck's. Can you say
Aflack 



Bernd
P.S. I won't be back on till next Tuesday.