Thanks for your heads up on my Aigle build thread. I want to resurrect your thread to answer a few questions I have on my project. 1. Did you end up needing the extra 1/2" depth belt that you added to make the legal freeboard and weight? 2. What size props and motor rpm's did you use to make legal speed? 3. Did the fiberglass backing sturdy her keelless body up, so you're not afraid she'll split in two on the first good ram? Thanks
Yes, Class 1 boats are allowed the extra weight so in my opinion you should definitely try and model it in. For props I think I had 3/4" ones laying around that I tossed on. I don't remember all the details as I gave the boat to @Nate G to build for me as an alpha tester. I personally would give it a nice fiberglass layer along the whole impenetrable bottom, and strips along the subdeck. But when printed in this "keel-less" fashion they are still surprisingly sturdy. Instead of a single relatively flimsy wood stick as a keel, the whole bottom of the boat acts like the keel. Its like a unibody car vs body on frame. I didn't finish this boat myself because I was busy designing the next iteration of the idea, the Suffren rookie kit. We already as a hobby had a great supplier for easy to build destroyers (Vacuboat) so I wanted to get something in the pipeline that would be a great first boat for newbies. But the design process and workflow is exactly the same, just scaled up. And I didn't have a WOWs model to use for reference/etc, so had to model it from just plans. Counting the V1.0 prototype that @Nomercy built and battled 2020, there are 4 of my kits in various states of construction. My personal V2.0 will be at North Carolina in a week for her maiden voyage.
