For whatever reasons, I've been too unmotivated to do much blogging about this Alternative IOM RC sailboat build. But I'm making progress regardless. It started off quickly after planking it in only eight days. But now I've slowed down. I've installed the interior bits now. The true IOM jockeys that are shooting for top in the world will never want this boat because a woody is too heavy for them. They'd look at my inside bits and say that it all weighs too much. For them, that's true. But for most people this boat will work well. It's too early to gauge the weight, but I'm hoping for as close to 100 grams of corrector weights as I can get. It's a heavier boat than the V8 though, for sure. All that said, this will be a strong boat. Here's how it looks so far... This is how it looks as of today after I installed the scoop deck.  But if you go back a week or so, I've done this... Made my own fin box. And I installed th...

Installed the shroud anchors and the scoop deck today. Here are my shroud anchors. This is the 3D versison. Four small pieces epoxied together. When dry, I drilled out the hole and installed a greased anchor bolt in thickened epoxy and let that dry to make my own threads.  Here they are being epoxied in place. In this picture you can see the "cradle" for the curved scoop deck. When those were cured enough, I epoxied down the scoop deck. I laser cut a hold-down piece of 3mm plywood and taped the edges so it wouldn't stick to the main bulkhead. That's the bit with the clamps on it. It's clamped to the main bulkhead and fits the curve just right. And here's how it looked after curing for 5 hours... I'll keep plugging away! Cheers!