I was looking for a not much complicated to build power boat and analyzed both RB16 and RB18, taking decision of the RB16.
I bought the plans, studied it and started to plan the building. The first thing was to “convert it” to available materials in Brazil, for example, our plywood size are different from the ones on the project, our standard are 2200x1600mm and 2500x1600mm, so, the original project fitted inside it but many material would be wasted, so, I converted it changing the parts place on the boards. The epoxy resin was another challenge since home boat building isn’t something usual around here, so I consulted some suppliers and found a recommended one from the company Redelease (if you are from Brazil, I strong recommend talk with them about resin, fiber and related tools).
After converted the drawing I was worried if I did something wrong on the drawing, so, I decided to print the parts on scale 1:15 and build a small version of it. Fortunately I did it because some mistakes has been made and gave me the opportunity to fix it before cut the real version.
This week all the parts are being cut by cnc (unfortunately isn’t viable to buy the cnc kit in Brazil because of freight and I had to design my own version of it using our plywood standards), I will post some pictures when they are done.
- My 1:15 scaled version
