Welcome to another RC Arctic Hobby unboxing. This is the Aqua Rider 703
tugboat. And I know I
said I know I said that the excavator
was the last Arctic Hobby RC vehicle that I was going to take a
look at, but the Aqua Rider beckoned and
uh I had to heed its siren call. Oh my
goodness, this thing is
hilarious. Yes, that is the color scheme. It is red, black, green, yellow,
blue, brown, and silver. So, give me a
second. Oh, actually, hold on. We can see the accessories that are included up
here. No, give me a second to get these uh to get these opened up, and then
we'll we'll have a look at it. So, we're doing a bit of an in progress shot here.
We've got all these tires, which go around the outside of the boat. Um, see,
you can see there's lots and lots of tires. Uh, we also found the battery
compartment. So, here's where the receiver is connected to channels one
and two. And then we've also got a receiver crystal that matches the
transmitter crystal that was included. So, that means we can use uh an
aftermarket transmitter with this particular boat here. Um, we've also got
the power lead for the battery, the battery
pack, the rope for tying up the tires, a
rope for presumably towing things. I mean, we've got a little hook here
that's seems to be fairly securely attached. And it is like, you know, a
tugboat. So, my assumption is that you can actually tug something with it. Uh,
what else have we got going on here? Ah, I'm working on trying to get the uh
antenna through the tube here. And we're going to try and figure out where the
where this is actually going to go because once we put this back on, you
can see there actually aren't any holes for us to to thread this through. So,
um, that's our in progress. So, give us a little while here, guys, and we'll get this all set up.
So, that took forever. Um, Arctic Cooling includes a lot of extra tires.
My guess is that for the tugboat enthusiast, um, they might want to take
these tires and put them around like the, uh, the barge that they attach to
their tugboat. So, we haven't really taken a close look at it yet, but I'll show you guys. Here's the antenna.
Here's the mounting uh, point for it. Okay, so here's it coming out the top.
Uh, we showed you the interior. This is really cool. Check out the dry dock that
it comes with. So, it's got little rubber grippy things here and the name
the Southampton. And then it fits on uh
pretty nicely so you can uh you know keep it nice and solid while you're
working on it and you know doing whatever it is tugboat enthusiasts do.
Uh this seals off all of the electrical components from the places where they
Oh, hold on. This looks indicating something to me. Ah, yes. Excellent. Um
so this seals off all the electrical stuff from where water might get at it.
Hopefully it seals it well. There is a
um like a neoprene seal around there.
Okay, so this guy goes in here. So,
we're putting the tugboat back together at this point now that we
have. Hold on. Apparently, I'm doing something wrong again.
Okay. Yeah, something about something about rope. Oh, the wires in the way.
Ah, there we go. Good work, Slick. Okay, so that's why we pay him the big bucks.
Yeah, I know, right? Okay, so uh that's reattached. Our extra tires are
deposited gracefully on the deck. And uh
so here's our included battery and we are ready
to go with the Southampton. Now, something to bear in mind, guys, is this
one does not come with a remote. So you have to get a transmitter, and then
you're going to use this crystal in order to um pair the transmitter to the
tugboat. itself. So, we'll be unboxing
that one and then trying this guy out hopefully uh on a lake or pond or
bathtub near you. So, one more kind of
close look. So, you can see there's like little steering wheel or whatever it's
called in a boat. I don't know what a steering wheel is called in a boat. Lots
of little, you know, cute little ladders and stuff like that. And uh pretty
robust looking propeller system going on
down here. So hopefully this guy can actually, you
know, haul itself and something else at a reasonable speed. So thank you for
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