Turns out modifying the boat to adopt the camera is fairly easy: Just had to flatten the crew's backwall, then leave out the instrument panel (comes out easily) and glue the compartment to the backwall. Also left out the dome as it would have to be cut anyway to not distort the lens and give access to the camera. Used just double sided tape to mount the camera (slightly misaligned). So far so good, doesn't even affect the forward/rear balance of the boat.
That said I don't have a video to show: Turns out the fully charged batteries from a week ago have self depleted meanwhile. The camcorder is also fairly prickly about storing video footage: It seems that it needs to have at least a 5 minute duration to auto store. Anything before that (as in my case a dying battery) and it will not write it to the card. You can of course manual force a stop, but that's tricky with the waterproof casing. So I have to charge the batteries and try again.
That said I don't have a video to show: Turns out the fully charged batteries from a week ago have self depleted meanwhile. The camcorder is also fairly prickly about storing video footage: It seems that it needs to have at least a 5 minute duration to auto store. Anything before that (as in my case a dying battery) and it will not write it to the card. You can of course manual force a stop, but that's tricky with the waterproof casing. So I have to charge the batteries and try again.
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