Bill (SoundSailor) Dunn's Sport Fisherman.
Seeing the various boats that are built on lobster boat hulls down east, I decided I also wanted to do the same with an RC boat. I saw some photos of what had been done in Maine on the big boats and decided to do a yacht/ sportfish. I like the fact they are a reminder of the boats I grew up with and not the overly modern looks of today. The boat was built using the Bluejacket RC lobster boat kit as a starting point that provided the hull and running gear. The hull is 33” long and is glass and was made by Microglass for the kit. Much of the features were replicated from features found on various photos of live boats. The mast with radar and GPS etc., are one example. The rods and reels were fabricated using styrene tubing and dowels The forward cabin is from the kit. It was a molded part and I had to do a few modifications to fit it with the rest of the cabin which I designed and fabricated using sintra. My first design was as a sedan cruiser without a bridge. When I reached that stage of the build I decided I would like the boat better with a bridge and added that also out of poplar. I wanted to stay with an “old school look” so I made the bridge with a straight front rather than curved angled. Power is from a 55turn 540 brushed motor. Radio is a Spektrum 3 channel 2.4 and the ESC is a Hobbyking used in rock crawlers. Batteries are 2 -7.4 NiMH 3000 Mah in parallel. Building was straight forward with no major problems. I used the full sized plans from the kit to draw a overlay of what I wanted the cabin to look like. Doing this allowed me to make changes, such as windows, length of roof and so on. I then could transfer the final design onto the material. Some final elements just came to mind in the final stages. Adding the anchor pulpit and railing were one and the ladder and railing were another. The only change I have in my head, at the moment, is to make a better set of outriggers possibly using old fishing rod top sections for the tapered outrigger poles. The graphics are by Callie and the name is Scottish (from my heritage) for One to Many. The hailing port is from where I grew up and did my early real sailing.
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