Out on the High Sea With a Remote Control Boat

Everyone needs a hobby, right? Some people collectdifferent ways to power them; electric, sail, nitro and
comic books, others collect sports cards. Some peoplegas. Electric powered boats are usually cheaper to
collect dolls, others might collect little trinkets that onlybuy, easier to maintain, and are also quieter than the
sit on a shelf, collecting dust and are only good forother types of model boats. If you want to save
looking at. For the last few decades, since the midmoney, and have an electric remote control car, you
1960's actually, another hobby has been adopted byuse the battery pack, battery charger, plus the motor
vehicle and toy enthusiasts alike. That hobby dealsall on an electric boat. A basic electric boat can get
with RC vehicles (remote control boats, trucks, cars,speeds of around 15 to 20 mph. If you are new to the
airplanes, and helicopters.) Not only can these modelsworld of racing model boats, then that is pretty fast
be put on display for others to look at and enjoy, butalready, but you can upgrade the motor or batteries to
unlike many collectibles, they can also be played with.increase the speed once you are a little more
Back in 1893, Nikola Tesla actually gave aexperienced in controlling the boat.
demonstration of an RC boat, and radio technologySome of the more popular companies who make
was used on various vehicles by the military in WWII,electric remote control boats are Megatech, Nikko,
but the model versions didn't appear until much later.CEN, and Traxxas. Nikko is known for toy boats, CEN
Today's RC remote control boats come in manyis good for cheap and fast boats, and Traxxas is
different types and classes and they are divided byknown for high quality boats for hobbyists. In addition to
the type of hull and the type of engine. And thoseelectric boats, you can also buy nitro or gas boats.
categories are divided up even more by the type ofNitro boats use a special fuel designed for model
battery used, how many batteries, engine CC, etc.boats, while gas boats use a fuel similar to what you
Remote control boats generally feature one of 4would put in a weed eater.