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Re: pic: 648 Cardboard Crab Steer Boat 1

You will have a very difficult time steering this boat. If you're ever rowed a flat-bottomed inflateable dinghy in the wind, you'll know why.

It's a bit like trying to walk on ice.

Powerboats use a V shape hull for tracking, and sailboats use a keel.

You have a couple options to correct that. You can move the propellers so that they will pull the boat. Pushing an unstable boat is like trying to balance a shovel on your hand.

Or you can change from the tetra design to hulls that have self-tracking, like a catamaran.

A number of solutions - but you're going to have trouble if you don't implement one of them.
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