Fully parametric sailboat ornament / pendant

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This is an elegant little sailboat model, suitable for decorating a Christmas tree, wearing as a pendant on a necklace, or even an earring if printed really small. I am quite proud of the parametric sailboat hull design I developed. All hull dimensions and shaping parameters are derived from parametric ratios of hull length. Bezier curves are calculated from those parameters for a smooth hull shape. **If you want a different size boat, don't scale it in the slicer, use OpenSCAD to generate a new STL.** In the OpenSCAD code, the parameter `hull_loa` (hull length overall) is the primary parameter that controls the size of the boat. Many other parameters are multiples of `hull_loa` and can be adjusted to control the shape of the hull: depth of the keel, width of the stern, width of the beam, location of the deepest depth and widest width, location of the hull transitioning from V-shape to round. You can get some strange but plausible hull shapes from playing with these parameters. The eyelet at the top of the mast can be set to a hook, a ring, or nothing (just a mast top), and you can set the size of the inside of the eyelet hole.