As I stated in my last blog post, my family has been talking about going canoeing again. For safety reasons I plan on keeping my iPhone with me in the boat. Although I have a Lifeproof case on my phone that keeps it waterproof, if our canoe ward to flip over, my iPhone would sink to the […]
My family and I have been talking about going canoeing sometime soon. We went canoeing for the first time about two years ago and had a great time, but after it was over there was one thing we all wish we had brought on the boat ride: a fishing pole! All we wanted was a […]
Over the weekend I went night fishing with my family. When you go night fishing you want to set up lanterns to attract bugs. The bugs attract small fish, the small fish attract bigger fish, and those fish attract even bigger fish (the ones you want to catch). So having a lantern is pretty important. […]
My RC boat is almost finished! I got the rudder installed and I just finished installing the stuffing tube, shaft, and motor. I now just have to get a battery to use and then I’ll try ‘er out! To mount the stuffing tube to the boat I drilled two holes in the center of the […]
Time to build a rudder for the boat. I made the rudder out of some brass sheet I got at the hardware store. To start I took my brass sheet and I drew on it the dimensions of the rudder. I made the rudder 1-1/4″ wide at the top and 1″ at the bottom. The […]
So I already have a boat prop, but now it’s time to build a boat for it. My plan is to build a very basic boat I can use in my pool. I will use a cheap toy boat from Wal-Mart as the hull, a DC motor that I saved from my destroyed RC helicopter, […]
As I was sitting bored at my desk surfing the web on RC boats, in particular homemade RC boats, I stumbled across a how-to on making your own brass propellers. When I have fooled around with making RC boats in the past, I’ve always had trouble when it came to making props. I once made […]