Pro Boat Jet Jam 12" Self-Righting Pool Racer Brushed RTR (Orange) w/2.4GHz Radio, Battery & Charger

Fun, simple enough that even complete newbies can experience the thrills of boating in your own swimming pool. These aren’t much for scale, but then you’re in a swimming pool, not Lake Washington with a hydroplane.

Instructions are basic, include some specific boat maintenance instructions so buy some lube and pay attention. Only real frustration (other than not being able to fill your 1:1 Offshore Cigarette with bikini models), is the very specific connectors on the battery. To be fair I’m only one TRX-4 Bronco deep since returning to R/C after a... ahem 30 year absence... so the connectors might NOT be super specific but they aren’t anything I’ve seen on any other lipo packs. So you might be stuck with the little USB charger, that does work just fine, but cannot give you cell specific data, resistance, etc.

Controller is inexpensive but works fine, and is appropriate for $90 little thing.

Over all, unless you’re in Everett Washington, bought the Boat at your local (rhymes with Lobby Clown), then complain about it here on Amain, while missing Horizon altogether??? (See Relevant review above or below). Anyway... this is a solid little boat, perfect for buying a pair to race around the pool, it has good run times, is a proper hobby level product, with spares available!

So yeah at $90 it’s exactly what you’d expect in a small hobby class boat, simple and fun.

One caveat, even though this is the smallest RTR Hobby class boat I could find, with a tiny battery, and a jet pump, it’s still almost too fast for a 14k gallon in ground pool. At full throttle you only have a few moments to turn, brake or simply freeze and mash buttons while this skitters across the surface with some alarming quickness determinedly seeking a pebble-tech wall to dash itself to pieces on post haste!

However, the Jet Jam is made of sterner well considered materials. So even with my fists of ham, driving it straight to its doom, the Jet Jams’s tiny rubber bumper prevents any real damage to the craft if not to your ego as it slams itself into a distant pool edge with a not at all alarming and sorta tepid... “TOCK”. However it also teaches a quick lesson in “trim” as the battery shunted far forward in its cradle altered handling somewhat. It’s not stupid if you learn something.

So solid good rating, on fun, simplicity, and being exactly what you’d expect and hope. It’s like a boat version of the Axial SCX 24. Tiny, but good!

This thing is neat. It has good run times, and its pretty damn fast. Maybe a little bit to fast for a backyard pool but if you take it to a river or lake in a little fanny pack or something its a good rc to take out and mess around with when your fishing. My mini b is fully kitted out, inlcuding a brushless dynamite motor, which is stupid fast, and im not saying anything since that motor is supposed to stay on the ground and not the water, but You could totally swap that motor in and seal it and add an air tube of some kind and make this boat stupid fast. It would take some basic fabricating but its do able im sure. Radio is alright aswell, it works, but I havent lost range and ive gone pretty far.

Im lovin my new ProBoat Jet Jam. Here is a video of me unboxing it: https://youtu.be/Tq_WEos0Igk
Then I take it out to a small river to test it out. I am so happy I bought this fun little boat! https://youtu.be/LjhQ7-3Gx-o

NEW: 3s Upgrade video: https://youtu.be/SvTVd3lVwrE

This item has a defective Li-Ion battery!!!

Yesterday I bought your 12-inch RTR Pool Racer Jat Jam in Hobby Town, Everett, (1130 S. E. Everett Mall Way, Suite Everett, WA 98208, +1 425-355-8086).
Immediately after connecting the battery, the boat did not work and the seller said that it should be charged for about 2 hours. After charging the battery at home (about 2 hours)
I connected it but the servo was moving very sloowly. The motor's shaft attempted to rotate and stopped..
After that I returned to the store where we cheked? the condition of the battery cells with Li-Po / Li-Ion checker. The first cell has an Overvoltage up to 5,47V, and the second cell was dead (zero volt! ).? In this case I took a pictures with seller along with my receipt to send it to Horizonhobby.com