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Building an Autonomous Sailboat That Pursues to Cross the Atlantic Ocean

andy-osuskyAndy Osusky 12/05/2017 at 10:301 Comment

The design posted back in 2016 has now been improved in many aspects. It's more streamlined, balanced, robust and optimized for speed.

This rudder combines two interesting features – avoids entanglement and reduces the power needed to steer the boat. 

Here's how it's designed on the inside. The heavy duty aluminum skeleton holds all the critical parts together.

From this point, it's going to be pretty straightforward. The next step is to make a foam hull using a CNC foam cutter and then build the molds.

Discussions

Kevin Klemens wrote 12/05/2017 at 20:45 point

Looks good! I'll be watching the build closely. You have a bunch of good ideas here.

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