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Automated boats/ships - part 1

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So...I've had a radio controlled boat / ship, well, it's 4ft long, so it's still a boat, but it's mighty large, since covid-19 lockdown time - I bought the boat around April/May2021-ish (I think).... my plan was when the lockdown lifted to visit the Warminster boating lake and use the radio controlled boat on a Sunday morning for a bit of fun and for something different. The boat I bought was a replica of one I starting building way back in the mid-1980s, the boat knocked around for a while, I fitted the prop-shaft and rudder and fitted a period correct water cooled fuel engine - the one's that were used in RC planes.  I never got the engine working properly.  Anyway, I did keep the boat with me until the end of the 1990s when I sold it to my sisters husband (at the time) who was more skilled at this sort of things.  He rebuilt the engine and got it working/running.  However, he didn't do anything in relation to the radio control gear.  He did paint the boat how...