Does she handle well and is she stable? Does it catch the wind like the real ones do?
As it is at the moment it needs a little more ballast and trimming down at the stern. I corrected it on this first sail with loose heavy items in the stern and it made a lot of difference. The new heavier battery should help to sort this out. It surprised me how stable it is. As it has a fairly flat wide bottom I could get all the heavy items - batteries, motors, controllers right down low where they need to be and surprisingly the upperworks fabricated out of styrene sheet are fairly light. I did make a point of keeping weight above the waterline to a minimum .
Of course there are many more details to add on top - rails, stairs, lifeboats, cranes, winches etc but as I will be making these myself from styrene or balsa and not using heavy white metal castings there should be no problem.
It heels a little when turning tightly but this is at non scale speeds. There was not much wind when first launched ( perfect conditions) but later the the windage was noticeable, especially downwind when it tends to wander off course - but easily corrected as the steering response is excellent mainly due to the Action Electronics P94 controller/mixer. Into the wind it goes as straight as I could wish.
Broadside on to the wind it heels quite realistically (but not worryingly) reminding me of the last cruise I was on ( Fred Olsen's Black Watch) when a force 9 wind directly abeam induced a very noticeable list to Port. And it drifts off course quite a bit with the wind abeam.
Don