FoamCrusher here…located in Elk Grove, CA, about 20 minutes south of Sacramento CA.
I started flying RC airplanes in 2002, teaching myself how to fly with a foam plane and lots of epoxy! My shop still has about 10 planes, mostly foamies and 3 meter balsa gliders I built - some from kits and others from scratch-, as well has a copter, a small quad and a few assorted other “flying things”, like a gyro-copter and an IFO.
In 2009, a fellow flyer started talking about RC sailboats and how much fun they were. Since I had raced Fireball and Laser dinghies for many years as well keeping a 26ft sloop on a local lake, I went and saw a race and was hooked.
Starting with a Seawind, my fleet has progressed to an Infinity-54, Canterbury J, Santa Barbara and several US1M’s, along with a rescue tugboat, fast electric deep-v and a swamp glider. After I retired I started building US1M’s; first balsa planked boats, then fiberglass hulls from borrowed molds and now to Kevlar and carbon fiber hulls from plugs I make myself, either from plans or of my own design. There is an old kit of a Dumas Triple Barrel-back that has been waiting in line on the bench that is currently calling my name, but it will have to wait its turn behind a Frank Russell designed hardchine US1M that I am building using a foam plug and split Ultracal molds.
I routinely race in two local clubs and occasionally in one that is about 2 hrs away. It keeps me busy and always learning.
FC