Anyone ever seen one of these?

Hydro Junkie · Apr 15, 2022

A guy in another forum received a boat as part of a trade several years ago and wants to convert it from gas to electric. Does anyone know what it is or have any info on them? He thinks it's a hydro, I'm thinking step hull. Any thoughts?

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Someone thinks it's an Octura White Heat V. Never heard of that one so....

David Bryant · Apr 15, 2022

yes, I believe that's a famous vintage Octura hull

RobertDoak · Apr 15, 2022

I guess a call to Trudy at Octura and a pic ....she may be able to help..

Daren Worboys · Apr 15, 2022

Looks like a white heat 5 or 10

Tom Foley · Apr 15, 2022

RobertDoak said:
I guess a call to Trudy at Octura and a pic ....she may be able to help..

Hydro Junkie said:
A guy in another forum received a boat as part of a trade several years ago and wants to convert it from gas to electric. Does anyone know what it is or have any info on them? He thinks it's a hydro, I'm thinking step hull. Any thoughts?

Someone thinks it's an Octura White Heat V. Never heard of that one so....

You have led a sheltered life !! Possibly the most famous boat in RC history followed by the Wing Ding !! The beginning of RC boats for the masses !

Hydro Junkie · Apr 15, 2022

Not sheltered, Tom, just short funded. The first R/C boats I ever saw were Dumas kits and that wasn't until the second half of 1982. I was, at that time, attending avionics class at NATTC Millington TN, a now long-closed Navy training base, and found them at the base hobby shop. I had to save money for a couple of months just to get the funds to buy a 20 sized Pak kit, hardware pack (big mistake), radio and engine (an HB20, another mistake). I have never even heard of or seen a White Heat until last night, though I have heard of a Wing Ding

RobertDoak · Apr 15, 2022

One of the oldest boats I know of is the original fiberglass dumas 3.5 tunnel...thatbis the start of my boat history....anything before that is unknown to me...

John Beardslee · Apr 15, 2022

Tom Foley said:
You have led a sheltered life !! Possibly the most famous boat in RC history followed by the Wing Ding !! The beginning of RC boats for the masses !

I still remember Ed Kaulfus running his White Heat at the 1969 Mini Gold Cup on Belle Isle in Detroit. It was powered be his own hand built loop scavenged engine and a radio that he built himself as well.

SayMikey · Apr 15, 2022

RobertDoak said:
One of the oldest boats I know of is the original fiberglass dumas 3.5 tunnel...thatbis the start of my boat history....anything before that is unknown to me...

Dang Robert you missed the flat nosed tunnel ERA. Maybe Zabroski can put you in his time machine

Grimracer · Apr 15, 2022

I am not embarrassed.. i am not embarrassed.. I am not embarrassed..................

SayMikey · Apr 15, 2022

Grimracer said:
I am not embarrassed.. i am not embarrassed.. I am not embarrassed..................

When you say FUTABA FOREVER you mean it

dr gary turner · Apr 15, 2022

Grimracer said:
I am not embarrassed.. i am not embarrassed.. I am not embarrassed..................

The first boat I built was a fat nose Hot Shot

Clee Moreman BTW has his name on the Excellence of Performance Trophy, and I came up with a quarter wave stub pipe for the K&B outboard motor.

Took second at our first race in Dallas Texas

ChrisHerzog · Apr 15, 2022

Back in the early 80’s Don Wagner “Avenger Spider Boats” built a White Heat and put an OS 40 in it. I remember it ran really good at Miller’s pond in Hammond La.

Tom Foley · Apr 15, 2022

John Beardslee said:
I still remember Ed Kaulfus running his White Heat at the 1969 Mini Gold Cup on Belle Isle in Detroit. It was powered be his own hand built loop scavenged engine and a radio that he built himself as well.

True old school craftsman .

Tom Foley · Apr 15, 2022

Hydro Junkie said:
Not sheltered, Tom, just short funded. The first R/C boats I ever saw were Dumas kits and that wasn't until the second half of 1982. I was, at that time, attending avionics class at NATTC Millington TN, a now long-closed Navy training base, and found them at the base hobby shop. I had to save money for a couple of months just to get the funds to buy a 20 sized Pak kit, hardware pack (big mistake), radio and engine (an HB20, another mistake). I have never even heard of or seen a White Heat until last night, though I have heard of a Wing Ding

It was in jest lol . I learned about the White Heat from old Flying Models Magazines .

David Bryant · Apr 15, 2022

my first boat- Dumas "Swamp Buggy" w/Cox .049 . I'd set it in the water at the lake, let go, then run around to the other side to retrieve it (hopefully) before it runs up the shore!

John Beardslee · Apr 15, 2022

David Bryant said:
my first boat- Dumas "Swamp Buggy" w/Cox .049 . I'd set it in the water at the lake, let go, then run around to the other side to retrieve it (hopefully) before it runs up the shore!

My dad built mine in the early 1950’s (home built, not Dumas) and the engine was an OK Cub .049 that came in kit form that he helped me assemble. It would do a big circle with the air rudder slightly angled and engine screaming. Oh, I can still close my eyes and feel that nylon prop kick and hit my fingers!

Wasted wages · Apr 15, 2022

The first boat I built was a fat nose Hot Shot

I think they just handed those out to everyone that started into model boating...

Yup, guilty as charged,,,that was my first boat too.... 3.5 K/B outboard... thought it was the fastest thing on the water. Probably weighed 10 lbs with all the epoxy I slathered on it...

First time I went out to the local club pond and saw a rigger going around the bouys, I was too embarrassed to even take my Hotshot out of the truck...

Grimracer · Apr 15, 2022

SayMikey said:
When you say FUTABA FOREVER you mean it

A raced for Airtronics for a time. Bobby Tom was a great leader.. THEN.. Win one Tunnel WC with a Airtronics sponsorship.. while working for Hobbico and they come in hard with a sponsorship for Futaba..LOL.. It was as we know the right move.

My Byron Sponsorship (thank you Mark Jensen) also fell to Odonnell only to develop our own fuel. Full circle Byron ended up mixing our fuel!

We won a few more after that! LOL

Grim

Hydro Junkie · Apr 15, 2022

Tom Foley said:
It was in jest lol . I learned about the White Heat from old Flying Models Magazines .

I figured you were joshing, Tom. I'm good with that since it was meant in fun. Bad part is my reply was actually legit. The Dumas Pak I had bought was heavier than most sport 40s, the hardware was garbage and that little HB 20 couldn't even get the boat up on plane. I later learned the engine was nothing more than an airplane motor with a cooling jacket added. Worse yet, the engine was only capable of 17,000 RPM!!!!. Still have that motor and the Futaba twin stick I bought for $60 to control it, both being good reminders of what NOT TO DO

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