I've collected images, diagrams, formulas, and stuff on how to control sails on RC traditional sailing craft, specifically square-riggers. Considering all the questions I get on the subject, I decided to compile it all into a web-site showing it all, explaining things, even redrawing some diagrams that aren't so clear, plus a glossary page to translate all the jargon (after all these years I still tend to call the floor, the deck).
I'm taking data to post from other folks as well, so, eventually it oughta be a fairly complete library of the various ways to brace the yards on an RC square-rigger, and some other stuff. The intention is to describe the different methods, how they function, their pluses and minuses, adjustability, etc, a one-stop shop for folks wanting to build an RC square-rigged sailing vessel, from the most basic, to the most prototypical.
It's only just starting, so there isn't much to see yet at: https://todd.mainecav.org/model/controls/
I'm taking data to post from other folks as well, so, eventually it oughta be a fairly complete library of the various ways to brace the yards on an RC square-rigger, and some other stuff. The intention is to describe the different methods, how they function, their pluses and minuses, adjustability, etc, a one-stop shop for folks wanting to build an RC square-rigged sailing vessel, from the most basic, to the most prototypical.
It's only just starting, so there isn't much to see yet at: https://todd.mainecav.org/model/controls/
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