RC Tug Boat - Radio Remote Control Sea Port Tug Boat - Ready to Run

The tug was delivered 3 days earlier than projected. I added some weights to make it more stable. It handles beautifully! The water jet is cool. I just putted around the pond for an hour each time. I didn’t have any of the problems some people commented about. My Grandpa was a tugboat Captain. I’m loving it!

When this boat arrived, the battery was poor. I tested it on a thunder charger and it held less than half the mah it should have. I told Amazon and they kindly refunded me $8 as a result (they also gave me the option to return it, but I naively thought I could just get a new battery and then my son would be happy). Got a new battery, then it ran for a minute in the water before losing power. Took it apart, and discovered that the motor shaft was spinning inside a propeller shaft it wasn't properly secured to. Fixed that with the dremmel and a nub screw, and back to the lake. Then I discovered that the FM signal was intermittent, causing the boat to lurch as it got and lost the signal. It only kept the signal when it was within 10 feet of me. So I drove it around in circles, and it went nice and fast and the water canon sprayed nicely. My 3 year old son liked it a lot for a whole 3 minutes when I handed him the remote, until it lost power completely and smoke started coming out of it. Turns out it had taken on water, and then the motor short circuited, caught fire and melted the plastic bracket it sits in. Now it's my son's display tug boat. As for me, I can't even look at it or I'm reminded the $50+ I just wasted.

HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE. IT IS FUN TO PLAY WITH. ONE PROBLEM IS GETTING THE BATTERY INTO THE BATTERY HOLDER DOWN FAR ENOUGH.

This boat has a couple of shortcomings. It is not properly ballasted and the RC system is very limited ability and quality. I bought the boat knowing all of this from various forums I visited. The good point is that the boat can be easily modified by a modeler by adding lead ballast to the keel and installing a quality RC radio with speed controller and rudder servo. With just a little modification this becomes an extremely fun model that looks great and performs well.

The RC TUG BOAT is a great toy as its maneuverability, aesthetic detailing and scale are all perfect features for a child as well as an adult. That being said about the tug there are a few things that can greatly be improved, mainly the radio control frequency on the one I purchased.My son and I were sailing the tug in the pool and the directional propeller locked itself into a right turn and wouldn't come out of it. When I retrieved the boat from the water I realized that the frequency was at 27Mhz which is a very common RC frequency and very susceptible to RF interference which rendered our "fun" time ruined as steering the boat became impossible with the intermittent radio interference until we went back into the house and the boat became steerable again as it was isolated from the inference.Another thing was that so much water gathered inside the boat while sailing it that it either leaned too heavily on the right or left side almost capsizing the vessel at times. The overall experience with the boat outside of the aforementioned issues were great for my son and I. So if your are able to overlook and/or deal with those issues then you won't regret the purchase.

i took it out the box made sure everything was ok. charged the batt. put it in the water and it had a list really bad so i had to play with that for about 30 mins,trial and error,it ran for about 5 mins, and it started to put put and i almost lost it from it floating away.the shipping took about 24 days.i tried to fix it like my other tugs(alantic,aqua tug) but always had problems,its cheap made for a cheap price

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This is an adorable, enormous, surprisingly well-put-together toy that has fascinating functions that all work, is simple to use, and looks wonderful.