The Water Challenge

[Phoxtane]

UPDATE: Due to some small bits of revived interest, here\'s the newly updated challenges! Do them in order, as I have arranged them from easiest to hardest.

Challenge 1: Construct a rocket boat that goes at an appreciable speed.

Challenge 2: Get back onto land from the water. Or, you can use C7\'s heavy RCS for getting out. If you do that, you can skip the first portion of Challenge 3.

Challenge 3: Take off from land and get into a stable orbit. Bonus appreciation for getting the Kerbals back safely.

Restrictions: Stock parts, C7 Flight Pack, and the sideways parachute from the DERP CO. Pack.

Please submit screenshots and/or videos for this challenge, for the purposes of validation.

Current Leader:

JupiterII, with a plane that can successfully land and take off from the water!

[rebelcommando1807]

Oh, hey.

Can only get mine up to around 10 m/s that I\'ve seen, but..

HEYO!

..Yes, this was one of the first things I did. You need to land with power at under 4 m/s for whatever reason (At least, I do), but they work. RB-M doesn\'t have much fuel, and RB is a pain to control. But they work.

All vanilla parts.

[Tybot]

Was playing around with this tonight, checked to see if it were a challenge and lo and behold here one is. The main hurdle is that you can only go so fast in the water before the resistance makes my pod go kablooie. Still, it\'s fun to float around. Even more so if you make the motorboat sound with your lips.

[JupiterII]

[Phoxtane]

Very nice! Can you attempt a water takeoff?

[One Winged Angel]

Very nice! Can you attempt a water takeoff?

I don\'t think it\'s possible. I tried to do a water takeoff and my boat looked like it had hydros, bouncing up and down like a ghettomobile.

no offense if you drive a ghettomobile.

[Phoxtane]

In that case, is it possible to get back on land and then take off? You\'d be the first to have invented an amphibious spaceplane.

Extra points if you can make it into orbit from there. I\'ll even update the OP.

[Kryten]

It is possible to take off from the water, but only by using an RCS powered craft-like so-

[foamyesque]

Sounds interesting.

[JupiterII]

Very nice! Can you attempt a water takeoff?

Success!

[JupiterII]

Now I will attempt the Updated Challenge

[JupiterII]

It is possible to take off from the water, but only by using an RCS powered craft-like so-

Not just RCS powered. You only need RCS to point your nose up.

[Phoxtane]

I\'ve started using DERP CO. Pack parachutes myself. They really help with the landings.

[NovaSilisko]

Can you say Sea Dragon?

[JupiterII]

Can you say Sea Dragon?

Sea Dragon?

[NovaSilisko]

Sea Dragon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

[JupiterII]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

Mine\'s only 1 stage and looks cooler, so it\'s the sea Squid(How that relates to Squids is unknown)! Even though it\'s not squishy(Squids are squishy).

[Ferrit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

Good grief! That\'s more Kerbal than Kerbal!

[SteevyT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

Someone should suggest this to HarvestR as a launch option.

[Itchono]

I guess the BFE-5000 would come in handy.

[Phoxtane]

Well, I guess I\'ll have to make a rocket boat, seeing as I\'ve optimized the heck out of my Orbital Jumper.

[brody]

tried it with my space plane and barley lasted a second.. im so sad i thought it could atualy be used as a boat but instead it can\'t..

[RangerDanger75]

How could you go wrong with a Big Dumb Booster?

[JupiterII]

My latest attempt at the updated version.

There\'s a bug with the RCS fuel so I ran out before I could get into a stable orbit. I also deployed the parachute late.

[JupiterII]

If someone can beat this, I\'ll finish the whole challenge.