well, it works. a little bit. after more of the same issue we had yesterday (that the tubing got twisted and misaligned - SEE BELOW), we managed to make things work in the kiddy pool. Daniel would sit holding the boat in the kiddy pool and i would give it just a tiny bit of motor and it would have a tiny bit of forward thrust. i'd bring up the motor and the boat would have more thrust. then a bit more and the tubing would flap around so much it would dislodge and we'd have to stop and reset things. that was ok though cause it worked at low speeds. so we moved to the big boy pool. i called jack (just back from south africa last night) and i put on a bathing suit and went over to test the boat in the real water.
this was very very scary. electronics essentially open to the splashing of the waves of the pool is a BAD idea. both for safety reasons (though it wasn't going to kill me, i still would not have liked to test that it wouldnt kill me) and for fiscal reasons. the cheap motor and esc were not super vital, but the reciever, battery for reciever, battery for motor and servos are not really things i want to lose. anyways, this great fear meant i wanted to keep things low speeds and not take risks.
thats what we did. take it slow and avoided doing something really stupid.
(more to come when i get the pictures and video from shaffer)
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