Three of us at work have been monkeying with R/C boats and have drawn up and scratch built about three different designs over the last couple of years (not including an overpowered catamaran that uses a one meter rig!). We drew up another one and were so pleased with it after quickly scratch building an operational model, that we've decided to build several vacuum bagged carbon versions. I'm working on the female mold now and almost have the plug completed. The boat fits within the US One Meter box rule and is 39 3/8" long, will have something near a 65" carbon fiber mast, and a 3 to 4lb lead bulb on a fin keel. Neville is beginning work on the lead keel mold while I'm working on the plug. After the female mold is made, I'll fab up bulkheads and create a sheet of bulkhead molds and move on to creating molds for the deck. Meanwhile Neville, with the lathe and milling machine in his garage, will be working up some of the custom hardware rigging bits and creating the foils. We're documenting the (learning) process at http://www.teamseacats.com.

Here's the plug - I have one more round of wetsanding to remove some slight orange peel and then it will be time to form up a mold.