motomatt

[MOC] Lego Sailboat

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Hey there, first post to the Town forum. Thought I would share a Lego sailboat model I made in approximate minifig scale. It is based on a Benetau Cyclades 43.4 The inspiration for this was watching the sailing journey of La Vagabonde https://www.youtube....LjIzFnWsDQOv4ww

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The sails can be rolled out and are made out of a plastic bag. The sewing string rigging is the only other non-lego part.

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Here is a digital rendering

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Full instructions and parts list can be found on rebrickable http://rebrickable.c...t/lego-sailboat

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Excellent design, looks really great! The size seems just right indeed, it doesn't look crowded with the whole crew on. How have you done those smooth curves on the side? Did you bend them?

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before i get all gushy, because i do like her, im a bit courious. you see i use a very similar technique to quite some extent and I don't understand what's going on with the bricks towards the bow. There's just some kind of shift, a disposition if you will, that I've never gotten on my builds.

That being said if there is one criticism, I'd suggest that more might have been done to close the gap at the prow. Otherwise I love her. Its a good application of technique and full of clever problem solving and parts usage. Plastic bag for the sail, that's brilliant!

I don't always make it out this far but I'm glad I did tonight. Thanks for sharing.

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Very nice sailboat! :thumbup: The problem with those brick-built hulls isn't so much their shaping as such but to integrate the superstructure within their irregular lines. You've mastered that very skilfully. No fan of Nonlego sails, but well, the build would be great without them anyway.

Would be very glad to have this in the LEGO Yacht Club on Flickr, see https://www.flickr.com/groups/legoyachtclub/

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This looks so accurate :classic: :thumbup: great work! And the shaping of the hull features an indeed interesting technique!

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Looks great! I really like how you added the photo of the mini fig on the mast. It's a really nice touch.

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Thanks for all the nice comments guys. This is my first ship MOC. One day I would like to build a much larger sailing vessel.

Excellent design, looks really great! The size seems just right indeed, it doesn't look crowded with the whole crew on. How have you done those smooth curves on the side? Did you bend them?

The technique for curving the hull is something is to use brick 1x2 pieces in the following fashion

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before i get all gushy, because i do like her, im a bit courious. you see i use a very similar technique to quite some extent and I don't understand what's going on with the bricks towards the bow. There's just some kind of shift, a disposition if you will, that I've never gotten on my builds.

Yes, I will admit that the the curvature is not perfect near the front. I suppose when I display it from the side I don't tend to notice it so much.

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Very nice sailboat! :thumbup: The problem with those brick-built hulls isn't so much their shaping as such but to integrate the superstructure within their irregular lines. You've mastered that very skilfully. No fan of Nonlego sails, but well, the build would be great without them anyway.

Would be very glad to have this in the LEGO Yacht Club on Flickr, see https://www.flickr.c.../legoyachtclub/

Thanks! Maybe I should join flickr :-)

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Hum. I'm afraid I may have misrepresented my intentions. I don't mean to be so much critical of the shift in the bricks up forward as concerned and wondering if I could help out. Thank you for the break-down shot. Yours winds up very similar to my own technique, go check out my fleet and you'll see (everything's linked on my profile). Any way, I mean what I say; she's quite nice. If the effect doesn't bother you, then MOC-on! and don't mind me.

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Spectacular build!! She is easily the best sailboat of this type that I have ever seen. Your technique for curving the hull is great and the rigging looks perfect. Does it work? Also could you modify her to float? That would be magnificent. I think if you added a weight very far down in the water it could balanc the heavy sails and rigging. I am looking forward to your next MOC. Brick on!

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Once again, thanks for the nice comments.

Spectacular build!! She is easily the best sailboat of this type that I have ever seen. Your technique for curving the hull is great and the rigging looks perfect. Does it work? Also could you modify her to float? That would be magnificent. I think if you added a weight very far down in the water it could balanc the heavy sails and rigging. I am looking forward to your next MOC. Brick on!

I really don't think this thing would float :-) The hull is not waterproof. It is intended to be a shelf display piece only.

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This is great... One of the best Lego yachts I've seen!!

The hull design and rigging look spot on - excellent stuff!!

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Once again, thanks for the nice comments.

I really don't think this thing would float :-) The hull is not waterproof. It is intended to be a shelf display piece only.

no matter still an extraordinary piece. I wish Lego would do things like this. Oh well

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This is amazing. An engineering marvel. When I was younger, I lived on a sailboat for a year (even had to be hoisted to the top of the mast for maintenance). Thank for bringing back nice memories!

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Love this ship!

Great parts usage, and the design looks very realistic.

Keep clicking those bricks together!

wooow. this is amazing. can you share the ldd file?

This model looks to have been built in MLCad, not LDD.

You can get the MLCad file, parts list and pdf instructions in the rebrickable link motomatt provided in his post.

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