RE: My newly built Dumas Ace Sloop
Hi,
I'm sure it can be converted for r/c use. I'm no expert on sailboats as I'm in the nitro section.
This is a neat little boat in my opinion, I got mine from ebay at $32 + shipping so at 38 bux, thats about right. Its an easy and fast build. if it was me, I would just build a removable hatch towards the stern thru the deck, and just use one servo for the rudder. You can just do that and keep it simple and can still be able to control the boat in a small to medium size lake or large pond...
As a free-sailer its kinda cool. Its a learning curve to understand how to adjust the sail and rudder to keep it sailing straight. Mine on its first run wanted to go straight upwind. So to fix that I had to move themast forward. the mast is easily moved as it sits on a small pin resting on several pegholes in the deck.