Fat Boy Slim

1/16 Balsa hull 41 g
Soft Sail swing rigs  25 g
Servos, Rx, Tray 22 g
Ballast 275 g revised to 300g with 40g hull
Keel 20 g
Rudder, Arm, Push rod 9 g
Battery 32 g
Total 435 g

Ballast ratio 63%
LOA 335 mm
Beam 82 mm

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Peter Shepherd
 it has taken a while for me to realise that to a certain extent when the Footy Class designers started to use carbon fibre in it's hull manufacture the class perhaps took a wrong turn.

Whilst striving for the lightest and best preforming hull designs we went into an area which is not readily available (without some experience and cost) to most hobbyists, and whether it is true or not the perception is that in order to have a winning boat it has to be built from carbon fibre.

A lot depends on where you think the class should be, and how it presents itself, if you believe that it is a pure development class and anything goes then you have to accept that the number of people prepared to put the ultimate effort into developing hulls is going to be minimal, however if you want the class to be an introductory class to radio sailing and an affordable way of getting lots of people into the sport then it is incumbent upon those at the top to develop in area's which are readily available to all and sundry.

Hopefully the Fat Boy Slim goes some way to bridging that gap.