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Launched in 2004 the Lakestar still goes from strength to strength. Highly regarded as the best all around bait boat on the market, the Lakestar was the first three hulled bait boat designed to carry a maximum load in either or both hoppers without affecting performance. It’s capable of carrying 2.5kg in each hopper and yet the boat is just as happy on small waters moving with precision around features and obstacles.

Andrew Kitchen, a master pattern maker by trade, which involves precision engineering and design, designs all products. He revealed: “The Lakestar will take on any extreme weather situation having the weight stability and raw power to smash through even the roughest of conditions. All Lakestar’s are now controlled using our own handset and boat controls. Our electronics engineer Jim, who also writes the software, helps me to put the designs into motion. Now that we have full control over radio communications, hardware, software and UK manufacturing we feel that all the pieces of the jigsaw are in place to make consumers confident to buy our unique products.”

Dimensions

Length:700mm
Width:500mm
Height:200mm

Dimensions

Weight with battery approx 16lb

BSA's new handset

Using our own handset might not mean a lot to some but we are extremely proud and exited to have achieved this for the following reasons:

• The handset controls the boat on 433Mhz radio frequency, this eliminates any interference from any other radio controlled boat or bait boat. Each handset will only talk to its own boat.
• We use a transceiver in the boat and a transceiver in the handset. This means that the handset can talk to the boat and the boat can talk to the handset. Having this facility in place gives us the tools to constantly improve and develop new ideas.
• One of the best user features is the battery life of the handset. The sonar handset will run for an amazing 30 hours, approx 4 times that of a conventional 40Mhz radio controlled handset.
• The handset without the sonar will give an amazing 300 hours from 4 AA batteries, approx 50 times more than a conventional radio controlled handset. Take your baits out in the evening and in the morning, you have flat batteries. Not with our handset. You would have over 20 hours left on the sonar handset and over 290 hours on the non-sonar handset. In fact the non-sonar handset would probably give you a full year’s fishing on one set a batteries.

BSA Sonars

The main problem when fitting sonar devices to a bait boat is that standard sonar such as a Smart cast uses a very sensitive layout. This means that when fitted to a bait boat the following problems can occur:

• The motors give off a magnetic field that we call spikes. The spikes travel down the power supply to the sonar board and the sonar board interprets the spikes as a sonar pulse. This gives a totally wrong reading on the sonar display.
• The speed controllers that drive the boat motors are giving off a pulse. This pulse can also be picked up on the sonar and give a false depth reading.
• The wires on the boat act like aerials also giving off interference to the sonar board.
• Some tweaks can be done but in the end the system will always be not quite right.
• This is why our system has to be the only solution.
• Sonar depth range 40ft.

Andy Kitchen revealed:

“Our main advantage over any other bait boat company that also sell a sonar is simplicity itself. Our boat control board and sonar are both designed and built by us, they are an integrated circuit. This means that we can stop the motors, fire the sonar, display the reading then totally start the motors, stop the motors, fire the sonar and so on and so on. This totally eliminates false sonar readings. We can also tell the sonar what information to accept and what not to accept. In a nutshell we are 100% in control of our system. We do not have to miss and match different systems.”

The Pocket Rocket was designed for the angler that prefers a lightweight boat without compromising the features of our Lakestar. Weighing only 8lb the Rocket can handle most situations day or night. Andy Kitchen commented: “Most find the Pocket Rocket surprisingly quick and smooth to operate and able to manoeuvre with precision into the smallest of nooks and crannies. The boat is operated with our own BSA handset and running gear, and the boat is controlled with the two joysticks whilst the door drop and lights are operated with push buttons. All BSA boats are controlled using 433 mhz. This almost eliminates any interference from any other bait boat.”

Dimensions

Length: 630mm
Width: 360mm
Height: 180mm

Weight

Weight with battery approx 8lbs

Running times

Running time approx full speed 30 minutes per battery.
Handset with fishfinder run time 30 hours
Handset without fishfinder 300 hours

BSA's new handset

Using our own handset might not mean a lot to some but we are extremely proud and exited to have achieved this for the following reasons:

• The handset controls the boat on 433Mhz radio frequency, this eliminates any interference from any other radio controlled boat or bait boat. Each handset will only talk to its own boat.
• We use a transceiver in the boat and a transceiver in the handset. This means that the handset can talk to the boat and the boat can talk to the handset. Having this facility in place gives us the tools to constantly improve and develop new ideas.
• One of the best user features is the battery life of the handset. The sonar handset will run for an amazing 30 hours, approx 4 times that of a conventional 40Mhz radio controlled handset.
• The handset without the sonar will give an amazing 300 hours from 4 AA batteries, approx 50 times more than a conventional radio controlled handset. Take your baits out in the evening and in the morning, you have flat batteries. Not with our handset. You would have over 20 hours left on the sonar handset and over 290 hours on the non-sonar handset. In fact the non-sonar handset would probably give you a full year’s fishing on one set a batteries.

BSA Sonars

The main problem when fitting sonar devices to a bait boat is that standard sonar such as a Smart cast uses a very sensitive layout. This means that when fitted to a bait boat the following problems can occur:

• The motors give off a magnetic field that we call spikes. The spikes travel down the power supply to the sonar board and the sonar board interprets the spikes as a sonar pulse. This gives a totally wrong reading on the sonar display.
• The speed controllers that drive the boat motors are giving off a pulse. This pulse can also be picked up on the sonar and give a false depth reading.
• The wires on the boat act like aerials also giving off interference to the sonar board.
• Some tweaks can be done but in the end the system will always be not quite right.
• This is why our system has to be the only solution.
• Sonar depth range 40ft.

Andy Kitchen revealed:

“Our main advantage over any other bait boat company that also sell a sonar is simplicity itself. Our boat control board and sonar are both designed and built by us, they are an integrated circuit. This means that we can stop the motors, fire the sonar, display the reading then totally start the motors, stop the motors, fire the sonar and so on and so on. This totally eliminates false sonar readings. We can also tell the sonar what information to accept and what not to accept. In a nutshell we are 100% in control of our system. We do not have to miss and match different systems.”