Just email the designer and let them know your intentions. Thats what I do and you would be surprised what is possible, sometimes you have to adhere to certain guidelines but it is all worth.
No mat - just a few layers of glass. Most of mine (up to 48 inches) have been 2 layers of 4 oz. and perhaps 1 exterior layer of .75 oz. Simple old E Glass. Once you introduce mat you also introduce a lot of weight between fibers. No great benefit, since you don’t (usually :scared:) walk on the boat. You can always lay some carbon in areas of high stress like around keel attachment, etc.
All good advice fellas, thanks! Now I just gotta find time to get started…:scared:
Now that BMWOracle has said it won’t try to keep the same class for the next Cup, hopefully the syndicates will release their hull lines (SUI-100 would be nice). It would be amazing to see a fleet of 1/10 AC boats from the 32nd America’s Cup. They might be a little big for most, but they can always be scaled down to 1/12 and fit in the AMYA AC class. Has anyone tried to get any lines? I don’t really know who to email, or how to get them to actually send me the lines.
if you really want something big, the new AC90 class:
http://33rd.americascup.com/en/index.php?idContent=25&idPage=2
found these somewhere out in web-land.
they look AC-ish.
Here’s a pic of a 1/10 based model of Kingfisher Open 60 Mono…
This is my “Development boat” with the first of the revamped boats about to hit the water in the next few weeks. I’ve made her strong enough to handle 20+ knots in the open water - good “Scale southern ocean” fun…
Welcome to the dark side Dark Horse.
There’s a heap of info and links with respect to Open 60’s here in this thread, I hope you get as much out of it as the rest of us have.
Cheers,
HcW.
PS How are the rest of you going with your 1:10 projects - I’ve been a bit distracted lately with organising my “Real” Yacht Race and of all things flying RC Helicopters with varying degree’s of success.
Can anyone give me a link to 1 /10 scale fittings? I have seen the harken gear but i would like to see some wheels and stand-up grinders. thanks.
Wow! That is massive… congrats!
Goose
Out of curiosity, would something like a 1/10 model of a Stevenson Pocket Cruiser (17’6" LOA, 14’ LOD) be against the spirit of this class?
-Rick
I would suggest “no” it is within the spirit of the class - since it is based on an actual boat.
1/10 scale seems to provide nice sized boats on which some scale equipment (blocks, deck winches, wheels, etc) can be mounted and not look out of place.
In any open sailing competition (should it take place) the waterline length would obviously be a negative if sailed against a 60 foot ocean racer, but it would be the same waterline length issue whether full size or scaled.
Obviously an Opti scaled at 1/10 would be relatively the same difference in scale size as a real one if you compared (as example) to an Olson 30 or Farr 40.
I always felt there was an obvious “missing link” that AMYA didn’t address - that being a large scale, 1/4 scale, 1/10 scale or stand-off scale where competition included how the boat “LOOKED” from a reasonable distance. Much like the aircraft hobby guys do. So many points for performance plus so many points for “looks” added together to provide a winner. For whatever reason, the AMYA organization “SAYS” it supports the r/c sailing hobby - but in reality - only if you race them. The one exception being the Vintage class where they promote and sail restored/refurbished boats from years gone by. Hopefully schooners will also make inroads for multi-masted boats so the governing organization really would support scale as well as multimasts, multihulls, and gee - even spinnaker class boats.
Ahhhh - someday, perhaps - but not with the current board.
Hi, I’m an Aussie who used to lurk here when I started messing with R/C yachts. I moved down from Marbleheads to IOM for ease of transport, because I’m more interested in recreation than fleet racing. Then I got a C750 off ebay and it was great. I could take it aboard my 26 foot yacht and sit at anchor and do R/C sailing.
Next idea was to build and sail a replica of my boat, but the guys in the club assured me it would never sail, especially as I planned scale mast height, boom length and and keel depth.
This web site however convinced me the idea was sound so I went ahead and made a 1/10 scale foam mockup, skinned with balsa and sticky tape. Then added a scale size keel and rig and threw it in the pool. It sailed across so I did some pull down tests.
I lost the full size yacht in a cyclone, and replaced it with a different boat, the same size. A good friend took my old boat and spent a fortune rebuilding her to better than new. Recently he decided to resurrect the scale model project because as well as building full size yachts, he is a ‘professional’ model builder. Most of his models are full or large scale detailed replicas for museums and historical collections.
A week ago a box arrived in the mail. He built at 1/12, because most boats are measured in feet and inch to the foot is simple. Also, we had an ‘inch to the foot’ naval architect’s half hull that was made when Doug Petersen designed the boat.
So here’s a full sized Seaway 25 (Aussie trailer sailer Designed by Doug Petersen in 1978) with a 1/12 scale R/C replica sailing around her.
I know it isn’t 1/10 scale, but 1/12 scale comes up in discussion here often enough.