I've been wanting to get a bigger Canard running but the cost of hulls, the cost of postage to Australia & the exchange rate of the Aussie Dollar has made it prohibitive.
So with Mikes blessing I'm going to butcher one of his ML Boatworks, Winston Eagle (lobster) kits & turn it into some sort of a canard.
This is a fun thing. Not for racing.
The kit arrived last week & after a bit of deliberation on how things were going to be set up I got started on it.
The tub & sponsons were basically stuck together in a few hours.
I had to take some of the height off the sponsons so it was flush with the narrower tub at the rear of the boat.
I also reduced the AoA of the wing so that the top of it lined up with the sponson & the tub.
To fit the front shoe, the angle of the front part of the hull was reduced before I installed a base plate for the shoe. (See the pencil line in photo #3)
Building the boat won't be difficult, but getting it to run nicely most certainly will be.
Here's a few pics of the story so far.
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