{"id":2790,"date":"2021-05-08T04:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2021-06-08T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:02:00","slug":"rc-techtip-widebody-catamaran-rc-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"RC Techtip: Widebody Catamaran RC Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows a Widebody Catamaran style RC boat. It is very stable and easy to make turns without losing control.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the hull is rather flat so there is very little room inside. Heat accumulates real quick even with the presence of water cooling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2953\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-1246x935.jpg 1246w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-675x506.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210504_133026.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your electronics are water proof I would recommend that you drill some small holes on the top cover to aid in heat dissipation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2954\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100-675x900.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100-480x640.jpg 480w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ftIMG_20210508_152100.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the boat rides pretty stably on water, small holes at the top would not produce too much water risk to the inside.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LU8O4kueEk0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows a Widebody Catamaran style RC boat. It is very stable and easy to make turns without losing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boat","category-tech-tip-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}