Back to the start

Three years ago this project had started, to linger for a long time after some furious action at the beginning. I'm currently looking at the software that I wrote mostly about two years ago. As usual, some concepts look foreign, some aspects don't sit quite right, and it's time for a redesign.

What I want to do next is design/ write the software that steers the ship at the same time as the simulation environment. The ship software will not know if it is attached to a real GPS, compass, rudder, engine, and thrusters or the simulated items. This hopefully will improve the odds the boat won't get "lost at sea (lake)", or worse even run into something hard. I'll keep the updates posted!

What about the ship? I still have to get resin and fiberglass on! "What kept you?" Well, there are a couple of spots where I just don't know how to laminate best. There is the rather sharp bow, and I would not like the fibers to lift and make a hollow bulge. At the stern I have the opposite situation: how to I prevent the fibers to lift out from the hollow?

I simply did not want to run into problems that might force me to redo the body into which I put quite a number of hours so far. Meanwhile the resin has expired and I'm thinking about building a replica of the critical spots, and trying out laminating with the old resin and the replica to get a feeling for the real thing.