The answers to the questions I am about to ask have most probably been dealt with somewhere in this forum, but as a newbie, please forgive me if I am retreading ground already covered and please point me in the right direction.
I am about to start fitting out a hull of a Grand Banks Schooner from Kingston Mouldings, UK. I intend to fit it with R/C and it will have 3 headsails as well as main and mizzen gaff rigged sails. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to control the total 5 sails, presumably with multiple winch/servo combination. I currently have two R/C sloops but each uses a single sail winch for both main and jib together - 2ch radio for sail and rudder control. But clearly the GBS will need to be a more complex arrangement.
My other question refers to cunning ways to disguise and keep water tight, a deck opening to service the R/C gear. The deck layout has small cabin and hatches as well as a poop deck taking up about 40% of the rear of the hull i.e. the deck steps down to the mid-to-fore deck region. Given the need for multiple servos/winches, I'm thinking I do not have enough deckhouses to lift as access, and even then it will be tight openings. Therefore being able to remove a clear section of deck is the other method. I don't want to invent large deckhouses and detract from the aesthetics of the deck layout as planned. Has anyone kitted out a boat such that a section of deck is routinely lifted (and resealed) to service the R/C gear. I'm wanting it to be as discrete as possible so as not to detract from the overall appearance of the deck i.e the removable section is suitable blending in with the deck planking.
Any thoughts and assistance is most welcome so I don't set about reinventing wheels.
I have attached the thumbnail image for the GBS from Kingston Mouldings site, to give an idea of the boat.
Cheers
Rakiura