Hi, its Christmas time again and last year you were helpful in directing me toward the purchase of a Nitro truck for my son. This year he wants a boat. He is 16 but has experience with Nitro and owns a Traxxas T Max.
My husband and I want to surprise him once again and need your help.
I know we are looking for RTR but not sure if I should get electric or gas. He had a Traxxas Blast for years so he is looking for a step up. My concern is if I get electric and he is running the boat and the battery dies, how can you get the boat back? It looks like the Traxxas Vee has seperate power to get back to shore. Is this the only boat that has this? Any recommendations would be appreciated!

Thanks again,
Vicki

the nitro vee is a very good first boat. it has the return to shore, a small electric motor that will bring ya back to shore if your nitro engine stalls. one problem with the boat is its kinda heavy and a little underpowered. but offshore electrics and funrcboats ( i forget what one ) make prop and flexrod kits for em that help out greatly !! its also very easy and almost needed to upgrade the water cooling part of the boat with some supplys from your local hobbyshop s+k, or k+s ( having brain freeze ) kits, along with some fuel tubing. go with the carbon prop kits, they are cheap and you do not have to polish them like the brass ones. and the nitro vee is the only boat with the return to shore that i know of.

i could have used that return to shore option on my first boat. Sounds like a great option to have.

my miss budwiser took about an hour to come back to shore after it flipped. but i guess the rts would not have worked upside down anyway !!

I have spent a lot of time with a fishing pole trying to get my boats back after they stalled.

another trick for getting stalled boats is to hook a tennis ball onto a fishing reel....throw the ball out past the boat and just reel it back in until it gets hooked on the boat. We've used that in the past on our race boats.