Hobbyking Hydrotek f1 self righting rc boat review

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Bart DiNardo - 6 years ago

i lost a deep vee boat because it flipped.

Bart DiNardo - 6 years ago

i have this boat.very fast. love the self righting feature.

Randy Mackay - 6 years ago

thanks for the review, in particular it was very helpful to see the steering control. By the way, I'm planning to make an autonomous version of this boat using ArduPilot (which is free and open source).. of course any boat frame will work

redogg D - 6 years ago

its Elvis :D

TheSakamura - 7 years ago

what about review of this yellow boat under the table.....Graupner Arrow isnt?

Daz Z - 8 years ago

nice boat and lake i just ordered mine..il soon be upgrading the ESC and running it on 4s happy boating mate

Commycruza - 7 years ago

mr cheerful Hi, what esc did you end up using? And did the stock motor handle the 4s battery?

Daz Z - 8 years ago

Wil do mate wont be for a while yet have 2 other boats to work on..the hydrotek wil be my basher boat :)

Man Card - 8 years ago

post me a video of it on 4s!

Muci0701 - 8 years ago

How long u can play with 1 battery ?

Man Card - 8 years ago

i havent actually timed it but on 2200mah, if feels about around 10 minutes. I usually bring 2 batteries.

gpage - 8 years ago

This boat is actually made by Joysway, a rebadged version of the Joysway Madshark F1 brushless. Its a good boat, thick plastic, and the parts are cheap.

If you need replacement parts such as the flexshaft, you can buy them online pretty cheap, the Madshark F1 brushless parts will fit this boat if you don't want to wait to get them from Hobbyking. Make sure you order them for the brushless version of the Mad Shark, they also sell a brushed version, the flexshaft is not the same length on that one.

Daz Z - 8 years ago

the joysways brushless version is called the mad flow. :)

Jimmy Husain - 8 years ago

+Master Bass Can't find the parts there. If it is not too much to ask, can you link some of the parts here? Thanks!

Man Card - 8 years ago

+Louis Hoon I ordered the part from: funrcboats.com

Louis Castero - 8 years ago

+gpaje, hi there, could I have the link that I can buy those spare parts for Joysway Madshark F1? my email : louisweb@hotmail.com . Thanks man.

Man Card - 8 years ago

Thanks for the info. I will definitely order parts for the joysway. it was a nightmare dealing with Hobbyking! They are clueless dopes! After 4 calls, they sent me the wrong part.. so I just ordered from the joysway offshore infinity boat. I have now ran this boat lots, and seriously enjoy it.

Sung Cung - 8 years ago

Good boat i have it and it has a tendency for the coupling snapping that is due to people setting the turning angle on the endpoint is to much and it snaps from stress.