Dumas Star 30 sail boat

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

Hello To all

I want to share here My progress of my Dumas Star 30 kit build, its my second sail boat that i'm building. the first one was an Aeronaut bella which i still didn't sailed it yet, since i love building models i immediately started the project of the building the star 30. I'm no pro at building boats, my main hobby is RC Model Aircraft and still i have lot to learn in building them and even fly them still to this day after 7yrs in the hobby.

I started my build thread on the model mayhem forum in the beginners section So I will basically share the same photo's that i posted there, so if anyone interested have a look also there

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,59523.0.html

If anyone of you here ever build the same Model, please do share your experiances and even photo's of your model, everything you like, even the radio setup or even any mods that you did on the Star30, i do love to hear opinions and get more ideas at looking to your models.

If I ever be successful in finishing this model it will be sailed on salt water, and that's because i live on the island of Malta, if anyone ever visited the island you would know that there aren't any lakes here big enough to sail a good size Rc sail boat.

regards

Daniel

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

I started by transferring templates to card so if i ever decide to build maybe a second one. the Kit comes with Diecut liteply (Poplar plywood) bulkheads and mahogany veneer sheets for the hull sides, bottom and deck. I wasn't very impressed with the quality of the dieCut parts at all and many if not all weren't matching to the plans so most of the build was accomplished by guts and what was probably good for me. the keel is a piece of stainless steel sheet pre-cut and it doesn't come with any ballast. The kit has two vacuum formed halves were you should pour lead shots and epoxy, then attached the two halves to the keel, i discarded this and used the two halves to make moulds were i poured molten lead and cast my own ballast halves.

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

the mast and sail installation was a bit unusual and odd to me, but since it's an old kit and all these years not much have been changed, then there must be something that works. nevertheless I've still changed somethings.

the mast is build in two halves in which in between there's a 1.5mm plywood strip. a groove is pre made were the luff of the sail should slide in. the luff or what i call the leading edge of the sail there's a channel were a rope should slide in and sew at the top and bottom. by removing a dowel at the bottom the sail will slide from there but instead i glued permanently the dowel and opened a small groove at the top were the sail will still slide in easily.

[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

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[Daniel Cardona 1Participant @danielcardona1]

If anyone familiar with this Kit should note that i changed the shape of the Rudder as i wanted a more modern look to it……As if you see the rudder when sailing…go figure  

Edited By Daniel Cardona 1 on 18/01/2018 14:09:54

Edited By Daniel Cardona 1 on 18/01/2018 14:10:15

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