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Half hull file wanted
Hello, I am a sailor on a small river and we have beer can races as I like to call them. we only have about 8 boats and I wanted to take it up a notch with a trophy. I was trying to come up with a sailboat half hull model so I could cut and make a trophy. I was looking for a classic full keel type hull for this idea but any sailboat would be appreciated. I have a shopbot and cut mostly plastic so any help with wood choice would be great too. If none available maybe someone could point me in the right direction. Cheers,SteveO
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Let me know if this works. I made this model to enter a contest and it is based on the Haven 12-1/2. It is designed for a 3d printer, but you can modify the file.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:923580
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Willnewton, thanks so much for the fast help like always everyone is willing to do here. It is a pleasure being part of this forum hoping I can pay it forward and help someone someday. The hull is in two pieces upper and lower so I will do some research to blend the two and make one file if I can. not sure that is even an option and if not I will cut the two parts and glue and sand them up together unless someone else has something else for me to try. If I make this I will send you a picture. I really appreciate your time to help me. Cheers, SteveO
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Steve since I made the file, I can cut or assemble the boat parts however you like and post it up for you. I was just checking to see if that style of boat is something you were looking for.
I should print myself a half hull of the Haven anyway....maybe I will play with it a little bit today.
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Yes the hull is a along the lines, and for what I am doing my plans were to change it around a few times and maybe even paint instead of varnish so as to make maybe up to 3 or 4 trophies and then do something else. just depends how well it looks and is liked by the sailors if I make more than one. we have about 4 to 6 races a year and well I would like to have more. I am hoping this will make them get active a little more to win a trophy. we are like kids playing in the water but really just a group of ragged ass sailors having fun. Thanks for your help and if you can make just the hull file that would be awesome I have Aspire and Vcarve but never have used the Aspire very much as it is a little confusing to me. I have only used some pre made files. Cheers.
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Russ, thank you for your willingness to help, I will take all I can get. I have both aspire and vcarve but the aspire I have not had much luck working with. I have cut some premade files but not really a wood carver or wood anything. I cut plastics and all ways only 2 d stuff. I took this on to learn a little but bit off a lot. The hull looks great but not sure I could put a rudder and keel on it and look very nice. I do not need sails or anything else just gunnel down and was going to paint or varnish and glue to a cut out board with a little vcarve on it for winner. if the guys expressed they like it I may do a couple more and then move on to something else. eventually I will build a big over exaggerated really big cup award for someone to hold and defend as sailor of the year like. the final size of the hull I would like to do is about 10 inches. I will pm my email to you and if you think it will help me please send it so I can look at it and see what I can do. cheers to you as well. SteveO
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great Russ I will be standing by as there is no hurry. I will continue to work with Willnewton also and maybe will learn something along this path. thanks Steveo
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If you back to the thingiverse.com link I posted earlier, you will see that I have added a half hull version suitable for CNC. I have not cut or printed it myself, so got no guarantees, but will make small changes as needed so it will cut happily.
I should do this as a 3D carving project myself. I have only cut 2.5D and done some 3D scanning with my Bot. It would be a good file to learn on. Maybe I can try it this coming week.
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