Progress so far. I was still thinking of what to use for hull skins, cornflake box was considered but I didnt trust it to not go wavy, i tried a bit of the thin alloy sheet but I knew trimming it would be critical and difficult.
I remembered a pair of blue foam wings I made at least 20 years ago! They were intended for a slope soarer but they turned out really heavy. They are 1/16 balsa covered, glued on with copydex. If I could get enough of it off, I might get enough to at least get my side skins. About an hours work on each wing with the scraper from my 3d printer and I had the nice wing skins off, with only a couple of broken bits, one leading edge sheet was enough to skin my entire boat, so I have some extra 1/16 now. The only thing is that the copydex and slight whifs of blue foam are still stuck to the back. It doesnt come off.
I was worried this would affect my glue joints so I did a test bit and it was solid so I skinned the bottom of the yacht. I am going to work out the radio etc before I put the sides on, to give me the best access. Looking nice so far, I have made a start on the fittings for the mast and boom. I decided to go for the mast setup of Vic's original. In a waterproof socket rather than going through the cabin and into my radio tray as I was thinking about doing.
I have also made up my rudder, fitted the tube and fitted mounting blocks for rudder servo. Still to sort out a tiller arm and a tiny rudder pintle. Still not sure what to do, I filed the end of the rudder shaft down so that it could have a pintle, but it would need to be 1/16 inch wide, and have some way of fixing it to the skeg. Not sure it needs it but I had sort of planned on it. See what I can come up with.
Still got to figure out a sailwinch, probably just use a long arm on a servo, will a 9g metal geared servo be up to it, or a slightly bigger hitec hs 80. Or will it need a full size servo? There isnt much room inside, the arms wont have much room to move, plus a full size one weighs a lot too. It would be so much easier if someone made a board for marine use like the wltoys F949 aircraft board/servos. I was intending to use my flysky receiver, which is quite bulky and heavy, I dont really have anything lighter for boat use though.
I am pleased with how it is going so far, especially as I am managing to use a few recycled parts as well. I was lucky to find the (very nice) 1/16 wing skins and get them off mostly intact. The rest of the skins can finish off a few projects. Might even get some hatches on my cargo ship. I am still thinking about that though. I want to build a crane for it too, just dont know which type to go for.
I have been thinking about sails as well, what to use thats going to be light and wont need too much micro sewing, I decided I am going to try some vector 'board', which has no board-like tendencies when it is 0.2mm thick. I wont get anything lighter than this and I have loads of it. It has some strange patterns on a lot of the sheets so I tried to pick a semi transparent one, you will see what I mean. Still got to attach them, not sure what to do here.
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