Hi all ! First of all, let me introduce myself : I'm Pierre from the north of France. I'm a RC sailboats enthusiast since my childhood. 

Two years ago, I decided to launch a community site to enable all practitioners of model sailing to share their experiences : Voile-RC (sorry, french speaking)...

On this social network, I met people with whom we are now to mount a construction project: an autonomous unmanned sailboat whose only sources of energy are wind and sun. This sailboat, when ready, will perform journey of about 200 nautical miles in complete autonomy (Atlantic or Mediterranean Sea) ... Needless to say that this project is both exciting and motivating ...

For other enthusiasts to join us, and eventually build comparable sailboats, we decided to create class rules. And that's what we've done here: vrc-a.org! Of course, all is not yet fixed in this class and we're listening to all those who want to participate. In particular, these class rules currently only exist in French ... If you understand French and want to help us to translate it into English (and in any other language) you're welcome.

This class has the distinction of being published under a Creative Commons license because we want it to be used by anyone who wants ...

In a future post I will talk about "Open Sailor", the first sailboat to be designed to meet the requirements of this class. Let me just enough time to give her a nice website ..

Pierre