{"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=\"(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=\"(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 control. 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. If your electronics are water proof I [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790"}],"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}]}}