A Tale of Two Thistles

Postell describes his hobby of building detailed scale models of sailboats he owns, culminating in his ambitious project to build a remote-control Thistle sailboat from scratch. He details the construction process including fiberglass hulls, wooden trim, carbon fiber rigging, and custom-made sails.

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• modeling
• boats
• hobby
• RC sailboat