Didn't want to highjack the tread anymore as well, so I started a new one.

So Jake, are you able to tack the boat by remote control?

I grew up in the Caribbean making these kinds of boat from dried wood. We called them pond boats. We would spend weeks shaping it with a knife and chisel. The keel was a simple piece of galvanize that we bent one way or another depending on the wind direction and strength. Nothing as revolutionary as this. Only a few weeks ago I visited my brother in Boston and we (both in our 50s now) were reminiscing about these boats. We used to sail them mostly in the ocean (Caribbean Sea). When racing, we would follow them in small row boats, and sometimes have to jump out of the row boat, and swim to the pond boat to tack it. Sometimes we were maybe half a mile offshore in 200' deep water. There was one guy (one of the richest guys in the village) who would build his boats from plans bought from the US or Britain, and nobody could beat him. I sent to link to my brother so he could read it.