Clive. How big is this little gem please? Brushless motors, if you wanted to go this way, are cheap enough now, but a small model will still go well on a traditional speed 400 (or something).

Battery choice depends on how fast you want to go, and, if flying helicopters..do you have any useable batteries left of a decent capacity? Do you just wish to zoom about the lake or go really really fast?

Ashley

It's probably Ron Warring's 'Project 66', in the Jan/Feb/Mar copies of the 1966 Meccano Magazine. If so, we are talking about a 22.5" balsa hull – slap in my 'EeZeBilt' range. The magazines, with plans, are available for free on the net here:

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I have found that a small cheap brushless – typically an EMax CF2822 (get one off ebay for around £5) driving a 35mm prop with 7.6v of NiMH gives a sparkling performance for these light boats.  I think that a 1.5cc diesel would be rather over-egging the power – a 0.5cc diesel would make one go pretty fast…

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