Inspired by IOM and MicroMagic I am trying to build my own RC yacht. I have an old simple RC system laying around which might come to use. First I had to decide the size and what kind of hull I want. It seems like around 500 mm will make a reasonable sized boat to be able to transport with some ease. So how should the hull look like? flat and wide or narrow and heavy..? Having a look around on RC yachts most hulls seem to be somewhat in between. Not extremely wide and still with some shape. So a nicely shaped hull with low drag then. I use FreeShip to design the hull and eventually hull No 6 came out with the lowest drag and still with a nice shape and looking ok.
Hull No 6
Now the work begins. The hull are to be shaped correctly. There are 20 stations defined and are to be printed out and transferred to a harder surface in plywood or plastic of some sort. The styrofoam is very easy to shape and then coat with a filler. Then I can coat the plug with fiberglass and depending on the result i could use that as the boat or as a mould. Maybe I go for carbonfibers and clearcoat the hull.
