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I spent years tinkering with this one in an effort to figure out a way to make working jib sheets. At first I had an elaborate mechanical device under the forward cabin the purpose of which was to create enough travel distance so that the port sheet could be sheeted home, and the starboard sheet on the other tack, etc. This I accomplished with a single small sized sail winch servo, brass rods, tubing, and copper wire. As I recall it sort-of worked pretty good but it wasn't too reliable until I ended up eliminating the device all together, in the spirit of simplicity, and triple looping the sheets to each end of a double arm on the head of the servo. Originally I thought this would make too much friction, but it worked flawlessly. The other two sails worked from a separate servo on another channel.

It was really cool to come about through a tack and crank in the jib sheet on the other side. At some later date I re built the rig much taller using cloth sails which looked more like the real thing.

She's still on my top shelf, but she's seen better days. One day in a fit of rebelliousness I decided she's work much better rigged as a sloop so I ripped out the deck and everything.

She has a very deep fin and bulb keel which made her very stiff in a blow which is way more fun because Pretty much every time I sail one of these boats, the wind blows too hard. She's also very lightly built with Balsawood so she can definitely get moving like a scalded duck.