How to Model mast profile for motor pod

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I wrote a guide here. Lots of work to get right, but a bit of fun.

Foil Drive Assist, DIY

I have an Armstrong mast which tapers outwards towards the top so a simple profile doesn’t fit as nice it could. For a bit of a challenge i used photogrammetry (lots of photos stitched together to make a 3d model) and then fixed splines to this in Fusion360 to create a solid parametric model. This model can then can be used for the guide the pod. A bit of an overkill but was a fun process to learn and could be used by others for getting approximations of board or propellor shapes. All you ne…