Customer Reviews

RC Tug Boat - Radio Remote Control Sea Port Tug boat - Ready To Run

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Length:: 7:34 Mins

This is my Seasport boat first time on the pond. It is totally stock. The sounds are WAV add ons to the video but if you want to invest in some hobby grade add ons RAM makes a porportional with throttle diesel and horn sound system that would easily fit in this hull with a hobby grade RC unit and electronic Speed control.

It is a well detailed and well engineered and overly designed near scale model boat toy. My only structure modification was to break off the lock tab on the battery box so I did not need a screwdriver to change out the battery. With about $20.00 in LED and grain of wheat lights some tiny cloth flags on some string and with some 1/16 plastic rod stock you could really detail this tug to near museum quality. The TOY decals are really cheap and poorly designed not for this quality of near scale model.They scrape off well. Tug ran flawlessly out of the box has limits on power on rudder throw likely to keep from capsizing it on a hard turn. Note the significant roll or lean in the power turns. Upper superstructure rail detail was broke in shipping so I superglued it. Fire squirter system must be PRIMED before it will ever work. Also recommend a voltage meter check of all batteries condition and contact quality. I peak charge all NiCd and NmHi batteries on a battery conditioner. It is one neat tug boat and would be a real found treasure in the hands of a boat kitbasher model maker. Highly recommended
I am scratch built/ kit hobby modeler since my youth in the 1950's so many decades ago . This is a toy grade RC model and really only requires an entry level skill set.

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

Nice toy with a lot of good detail. The one we received had some balance and steering problems and came without instructions and couple little parts - suspect it had been repackaged.

Company agreed to immediately replace it once we sent it back - we are awaiting the replacement which is scheduled for this week.

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.

I bought this boat to give my boyfriend as a congratulation present. I works perfectly. It came in a box that was in perfect condition. The instructions for are very easy as long as you follow what they are saying. there isn't much to put in it beside the battery and the top piece so its sprays water. I am very happy I bought this boat. THe only thing that i can say is a problem with it is that the battery dies fast. but all in all very good and entertaining boat. 5 stars

...Unless it simply quits working. And that is what happened to mine. The steering servo mechanism came loose (off) of the rudder's post, and that up inside the boat. The steering servo, it turns out, was well up inside and against the very rear end of the boat, just underneath the deck. It would have probably been easy enough to rememdy--a slipped peg or rod, but ALL of the internal parts that make it go! are not accessible. This is because the hull and deck are of a solid one piece design; many tiny screws and glued together, both. It's put together tightly, which is good, but that plus is a big minus *for making it nearly impossible to even attempt a minor repair to anything inside it.* Only the battery compartment can be seen. Seen !

The boat needs careful ballast placement; it bobs, and it leans too hard from side-to-side in full sustained turns. It is, simply, top heavy with the derrick, cabin, and crane, and lifeboat, each up high.

It's looks set it apart; this is it's selling point, I think. There really is nice detail that one usually cannot expect to find for 50 to 60 dollars. The water spraying feature worked quite well, and the water tank which fills up automatically does help to make the boat more stable.

I had problems with the steering trim from day one. The rudder, for whatever screwy reason, really favored motion over to the left. So, therefore, it always had a weak turning ability to go to it's right. I would have given this rc boat a pretty rating, even all things considered, if it had simply continued to steer...at all !

Perhaps your model, should you buy one, will work for a long time, but it's a Who knows? proposition, it seems to me.

Everything works well on the boat, the only thing I would change would be the turning radius.

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.

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.

This model boat is extremely powerful. While that made - note my use of the past tense here - for fun straight line acceleration, the boat would heel over dramatically during turns. On the fifth or sixth turn, even under reduced power, the thing heeled over and sank in less than 30 seconds. It's a complete waste of money.