Pilot Boat at "speed"

The camera never lies? 

It does in this case. You'd think my Pilot Boat was racing along, blasting everything out of the way with it's wake. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's slower than MisChief, a real Karmann Ghia of boats (all show, no real go) even though the nose is in the air and we seem to be generating plenty of spray. 

Sailing this model is pert of my plan to get a variety of boats on the water, so I dug this out of storage and managed to find a battery that fitted it. Sadly, said battery has been around for years and was bought second-hand from the club. 

All that time with no charge hasn't done it any favours, and despite several charge/discharge cycles, the runtime was not much more than 5 minutes. 

So, time to buy a new battery, but maybe also replace the 540 with something brushless? 

You can read the build of this model here.