Hi everyone.
Here's my first boat design.
I have designed a modern work barge based
loosely on the Eurocarrier type of vessel that is popular these days for all sorts of in-shore duties that require a stable work platform.
I am building this in 1/32nd scale as this will fit my work bench. It will be just over 800mm (31") long, 255mm (10") wide and the design(!)draft will be about 55mm (2.1") at about 6 kg displacement. The cross section of the hull is rectangular with a flat bottom. The freeboard will be about 43mm (1.7") on the mid hull.
The proposal is to use a 4 blade 45mm propeller in a MMB Kort nozzle. My model boat shop suggested a geared motor as the hull will be pushing aside a fair amount of water. Is a 12v lead acid gel battery through a 20amp ESC appropriate for this?
Any comments are welcome.
Cheers
Andrew