- The project started when i was 14 yo in 2021, i wanted to build an RC sailboat from scratch, my dad helped me to build up most of the basis (designing and creating the hull).
- The project was abandoned for 2 years : School / Covid / Laziness (mostly the last reason).
- I now want to finish the project to have a base to program on embedded electronics in Rust
This repo record the evolution of the making from scratch of a 0.7meters RC sailboat in wood.
The hull was designed on FreeCad with a Python macro. Code here: macro_hull_skeleton.fcmacro (french).
The skeleton was cut in plywood with a laser cutter at the HATLAB. In order to do this, the different parts of the skeleton were exported in DXF file format, and then imported in LaserCut53. Finally, the wooden parts are simply glued together to create the skeleton
This part was tricky, each wooden slate needs to be strongly maintained for 24h along the hull to dry the glue. At the beginning, simple clamps are adequate.
But it is more complex for the top slats, notably for the nose of the boat. A home-made Lego clamp helped a lot here.
The nose needed multiple attempts to be glued correctly.
Then, the hull was sanded down, to remove most of the defects and irregularities.
The apertures are filled with a mix of glue and wood dust (~50/50)
Now the structure of the hull is done !
To make the hull water-proof and strong, epoxy resin needs to be applied over. This ressource (in French) helped me to create the resin in the right proportions. TODO