The Model Yacht: Volume 12, Number 1- Summer 2008

LINCOLN MEMORIAL POOL, WASHINGTON, DC NEWSLETTER OF THE U.S. VINTAGE MODEL YACHT GROUP VOLUME TWELVE, NUMBER ONE Summer 2008 Page 1 NEWSLETTER OF THE U.S. VINTAGE MODEL YACHT GROUP VOLUME TWELVE, NUMBER ONE Summer 2008 Editor’s Welcome This issue combines inspiration and technical information. The inspiration comes from an accouns of the restoration of a Sea Scout boat from the MYRAA era, pictures of a restored Spindrift M boat as well as a Yankee III and a Chico II. It’s great to see the efforts our members have put into collecting, disseminating, and teaching the art and science of vintage model yachting come to fruition in the form of boats on the water. Winston Churchill once wrote a little book on his hobby of painting. In it he said that the primary quality one must have when one takes up a new activity late in life is audacity. In his case, he knew that there wasn’t time to spend five years studying composition and three years studying brushwork — the thing you have to do is just dive in. And if your results are less than you expected, remember the words of Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Our technical section reprints a lovely M boat from 1938 called Black Watch. We hope that it will serve as an inspiration to your own efforts. We’re a bit late this time, mainly because we underestimated how much effort it would take to scan and lay out the drawings for Black Watch. We hope you’ll agree that the wait was worth it. Ebbs and Flows The President’s Message Vintage Membership VMYG annual membership is $25 for three issues of our newsletter – The Model Yacht. It is $30 for members outside the US and Canada. The VMYG lifetime membership is $125. Members also have access to technical assistance and vintage model plans, with reports on VMYG-sponsored events. To subscribe to or renew your newsletter and services, send $25 or $30 check (payable to US VMYG) or cash ($125 life membership) to: John Snow, c/o US VMYG, 78 East Orchard Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. For more information, you call John in Marblehead 781631-4203 or visit the VMYG Web Page: www.usvmyg.org 2008 Vintage M (VM) National Championship Regatta The 2008 national event for R/C VM 50-800 and Vintage 36 (V36) models is at Spring Lake, NJ September 12-14. It is being hosted by The Marbleheaders of Spring Lake, NJ MYC. See the entry form in this issue or contact VM Coordinator John Henson for details at senlivjh@aol.com or 732-458-1370. Earl Boebert Page 2 Jr. documented in his book. Full size plans in digital form are free by email to 2008 Traditional Sailing Craft/Scale Model Regatta Details are still to be defined for this VMYGsponsored event. Contact our Traditional Sailing Craft Coordinator Joe M. Cieri at 732244-1047 or 10 Abaco Street, Toms River, NJ 08757 for more insights. boebert@swcp.com or on paper for $25.00 to the masthead addresss. Other 2008 Vintage Activities July 12: R/C VM Invitational Regatta hosted by the Laconia MYC in NH. August 21-24: Model Yacht Regatta renewal at Mystic Seaport Museum, CT for classic AMYA designs: J, EC-12 Meter, Star 45 and Wheeler; it is hosted by the AMYA with VMYG support. Ranger Jr. Ranger scaled to 36” LOA. Rig is identical to Yankee III. October 18: R/C VM Bithell Cup Invitational Regatta hosted by Marblehead MYC. Contact John Snow at jsnowj@comcast.net for details on these activities. Vintage Etcetera VMYG “How To” Model Books – Visit the VMYG website for details on ordering our “how to” vintage model building books and video by our Historian Earl Boebert. These are based on wooden, plank-on-frame method to construct 1940s era model racing class designs (with video), plus modern building techniques to derive an R/C model of the 1930 Yankee J Boat design. Yankee III is 36-inch, entry-level model, which also qualifies as V36 design for VMYG events. Classic RM Design Grouping – Stan Goodwin, AMYA M Class Secretary, is assessing interest for an R/C M (RM) design category of early AMYA M boats 1971 through 1985. This is 2008 five-race RM series sponsored by the Marblehead MYC. It includes an RM Invitational Regatta June 28 at Redd’s Pond with the 1934 Campbell Cup as its perpetual trophy. Readers interested in RM concept can contact Stan at sgoodwin@draper.com or in Marblehead at 781-631-5847. Ranger Jr. Plans – Earl Boebert has adapted the renowned “J” Class Ranger to be a Vintage 36 sister ship to Yankee III and Whirlwind Page 3 John Snow there’s no getting away from it, these schooners are pretty and very competitive boats and even if you are not seriously into racing, they look good enough on the water and make equally wonderful cruising or windling models that command attention. Sharpies for Whatever, the Tour Fossa in the Netherlands, Sailing dem Bottles, and a Magnificent Golden Hind. ave Querin has sent me photos of Adrianna, his latest `build’, a 60” sharpie schooner which I am sure he will campaign in future USVMYG regattas wherever they are held within reachable distance from his home in Youngstown, Ohio. Dave has already built and has raced Pamela his smaller 50” class version at the regattas held in Maryland and It sounds like a windling kind of `tour’, the Tour Fossa which was first held in 1976 and is held annually in the Netherlands The 2007 event was organized by my friend Hans Staal. It is an event run by The Hague Model Boat Club. where model sailboats travel down a canal from the city of Delft to the village of Leidschendam, both near The Hague, an overall distance of 8 km. The models are first loaded onto a truck and transported to the starting point in Delft and from there the owners walk along the canal beside the mixed fleet of boats enroute passing under Dave and Susan Querin sailing Adrianna (foreground) and Pamela (background). These schooners, like their Skipjack cousins, are simple but remarkably quick on the water. Page 4 Two of the boats on the Tour, and the tricky art of “under bridging.” Andre Ros photos. several bridges which can be a tricky business At a halfway point there is a coffee break and they end the event some four hours later for refreshments at a café located along the canal. A day out for a sail, a good walk close to the boats with chatting among sailors make it a non-competitive and social outing, a real pleasant fun event rather than a race. Wim Moonen, one of the Netherlands master model shipwrights’ small but beautifully constructed model of the Golden Hind has undergone a refit and is back on the water as can be seen as can be seen in this superb photograph taken by Hans Staal. The real Galleon, Golden Hind was of course the first Eng Wim Moonen’s spectacular Golden Hind Page 5 lish vessel to circumnavigate the globe under the command of Sir Francis Drake sailing boats are indeed also `alive’ in that part of the world What do you do with a bottle, apart from drink of its contents ? In the United Kingdom they even encourage RC bottle racing and Dennis of the Hull sailing group put two bottles together to produce this craft. I just hope he remembered to recite the Bottle Boat christening chant upon launching ! No ? Oh Oh, bad luck ! It is probably at the bottom of the lake now. Don’t laugh at the idea of racing bottles these days that’s quite sane behaviour. I read recently of a club somewhere holding a plank race ! (Nail two of those together for extra strength and one could say you’re `as thick as two planks !’) Luiz Boms and his boat. Wading in the ocean is half the fun. As I write, we in New Zealand, head into our Winter via Autumn after the most beautiful Summer imaginable, while those in Europe and the US will be enjoying summer windling. Again thanks to superb lensmanship, this German-built barquentine model comes about and will head off for a sail in their glorious weather. The (two) Bottle Boat Meanwhile over in Brazil in South America (my part of the world that !) there is an enthusiastic model yacht sailor who armed with a Tippecanoe T37 boat is having the time of his life in Rio de Janeiro. _Luiz Boms and the writer are in touch and I include a photograph for readers. It seems that model Page 6 Let’s hope the cargo was loaded properly! Mark Steele The Restoration of a Sea Scout Racing Model unior High School on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is memorable to me for a few reasons but one stands out to this day: the building of a free sailing model racing boat in our mandatory shop class. I often wonder where that three foot long beautiful boat ended up and I remember the details of its construction with the lifts of pine, a sheet metal ballast fin and a lead bulb attached. When finished late in the school year we raced them from the shore of Bass River hoping that they would sail across the river and not out with the tide into the Atlantic. Earl provided me with a nine page Popular Science article published in 1929, including step by step building instructions with a table of offsets, plans showing how lift shapes are cut, photos of working drawings with profiles and templates along with a sail plan and diagrams of the fittings. Many of the fittings on our boat are exact copies of the plans shown in the article and I knew we had a model boat built to these specs. Full size plans were available from Popular Science Monthly, Nos, 106 & 107. The design of the racing model Sea Scout was apparently very successful and was adopted for interschool competition as well as recommended as the standard in the national Most junior and senior high schools in the past had well run shop and industrial arts curriculum and building a model racing yacht was part of that program. One very good example of the school built model is John Black’s Cheerio design, and after seventy-five years it is still winning vintage races. My acquisition of Black’s text and plans for the three Cheerio models led me to build both a wood strip planked Cheerio II last year and now the smaller Cheerio I much like the boat in my junior high school using the “bread and butter” lift method. A photo from the original article, showing Sea Scouts ready to race in Youngstown, Ohio. model building test by the Sea Scout organization and hence the name. The Sea Scout to be Restored A friend recently inquired as to my interest in restoring a 42″ pond boat, the pedigree, age and builder unknown, because he wanted it to sail once again. To my delight and surprise, I immediately recognized the boat, shown above, as a possible school design very similar to what I had built as a student. A few photos and e-mails led your editor and USVMYG historian Earl Boebert to identify the boat as a Sea Scout, a design from the plans of instructor A. M. Youngquist, of the Morrison R. Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio. Now that we had the plans and could recreate the missing sails and spars and some of the deck hardware, I agreed to restore the boat to an original condition. I would purchase sails and some fittings, build the spars and refinish the hull. The Popular Science article lists the tools necessary for building the Sea Scout and suggests the material costs (1929) averaged between four and five dollars! Because I have gathered most of the tools suggested and possess a long list of web based merchants who could supply replacement parts, sails and fittings at a reasonable inflation adjusted cost, I decided to get started. The work began by removing the fittings and the ⅛ in thick deck to eliminate a large gap between it and the hull, to secure the Page 7 Similar to an archeological dig, with luck one would find a “builder’s plate” listing the student’s name, the school and year built; instead I discovered colonies of green mold and globs of a predecessor to Gorilla Glue harder than concrete. Although the glue has adhered to only one of two mating surfaces due to the effects of age or incorrect application, it was lengthy task to remove. The designer specified two coats of white lead paint should be applied to the interior of the hull before fitting the deck. This was a reminder to me that most paints of the period contained lead and caution was observed during subsequent refinishing. Deck Removed mast step screws and add backing under the bow chain plate because the screws were loose. The deck is attached with forty four half-inch #2 brass screws and casein glue. A putty knife was inserted under the deck and the glue gave up its grasp. This boat was built without the specified hatch but it does have a small drain plug behind the tiller. Although the designer specifies hollowing out the interior with a gouge to ⅛ in thickness and to use care and not cut through the hull, our student did a fine job but was a bit conservative finishing the hull at about four times the thickness desired. In my opinion, the hollowing of the hull is the most difficult and tedious step in building using the lift method and reaching ⅛ in is a severe test! Because there is no evidence our student builder used anything more than a gouge, a thinner and lighter hull could have resulted if a Stanley 100 ½ curved plane, or similar tool The hull drawings from the original article. The use of profile templates is interesting. Page 8 had been available. If I recall correctly it was John Black who made a suggestion to Stanley to manufacture the 100 ½. Black specifies a 3⁄16 in hull thickness in his bread and butter designs and is attainable using a thickness gauge on my current new Cheerio I. The deck beams on the boat are set into a mortise but were not nailed or glued well. A support under the deck beam nearest the mast was secured and a small support for the ¼” brass rudder shaft tube was added. The original tube was replaced because it was too short and did not extend down into the hull. Original Sheet Metal Repair I learned that only one in five hardware dealers stock thick walled K & S brass tubing and suspect it will be displayed under lock and key very soon given the rapid cost increases. The photo at left of the bottom of the hull shows a sheet tin “cover-up” around the rudder tube. As a student I remember making this error and often handle a drill bit like an electrician drilling through wall studs. The torn out wood was replaced with epoxy filler and smoothed. The bolts holding the lead ballast to the hull were tightened a half turn. This eliminated a small gap under the deadwood block. The deck was now refastened using new Micro Fastener wood screws and a small amount of Titebond glue although in retrospect my choice of glue should have been a less permanent adhesive such as bedding compound. In another seventy-five years the model may need another deck removal! A light sanding of the plywood surface and application of Minwax stain prior to three coats of Helmsman Spar Varnish completed the deck. The ballast surface was smoothed using epoxy with fillers. The hull is now sanded to remove marks left by a rasp and an acrylic primer was brushed on. Any fine lady needs to be displayed properly so a cradle was cobbled out of scrap pine. Experience with a robust cradle design has enabled me travel by auto with the hulls in an upright position. The broken jib traveler was replaced with 18 gauge brass wire soldered into the triangular bases that were on the boat. Other original fittings were cleaned and buffed using the Dremel wire tool and the rudder was re- Restored Hull, Deck, and Cradle Page 9 placed and fastened to the tiller arm with a piece of 1⁄16 in brass rod. A side shroud attachment plate was made to replace one damaged using 26 gauge brass bent and drilled appropriately. To my surprise, brass knurled thumb screws are still available so we replaced the parts securing the fine quality cast aluminum mast step the school must have had mass produced. Model Yacht Fittings1 have been supplying us with some nice vintage brass and in our case has supplied two small turnbuckles to adjust the mast shrouds. A deviation from the plans is my addition of a brass plate to the skeg under the rudder shaft to prevent fowling by weeds in a space between the rudder and skeg. Replacing the skeg is an option but not in my plans at this time. The designer suggests a spade rudder as an option because “younger or less skillful boys sometimes find it difficult to make a good job of the skeg”. Painting the finish coats on the hull of our last three pond boats has been simplified by the use of a spray can application as recommended by my friends in the Marblehead club. It is durable, thrifty, a large choice of colors are available and once you mask off the surrounding surfaces multiple thin coats of paint can be applied and provide a superior finish. Compared to my earlier experience with brushes and rubbing with pumice and many grades of wet-dry paper, the spray cans win!! My choice for anyone without an airbrush kit. A white topside and Maritime green bottom have been applied. Our next steps included spar building, obtaining sails and rigging for free sailing. The sail plan, seen below, was mailed to Chuck Black and a nice set of sails was produced. The Sailplan The Fittings Drawing from the Original Article 1 The spars were crafted out of clear northern white pine. Laminated construction for the 54″ mainmast will be stronger than the one piece called for in the plans. Four ⅛ in strips, www.modelyachtfittings.com —Ed. Page 10 ½ in wide, laminated with thickened epoxy, similar to what I use for Vintage Marblehead stock, is allowed to harden and then it is planed using the Stanley #100 to eight sides and ultimately down to a ½” radius. The sails were made with hooks for a jackline arrangement. The location for brass cotter pins was established midway between the hooks, the pins epoxy glued to the mast after small holes were drilled and a length of stainless wire was run through the pins. The wire was terminated with small screws. An attempt to replicate gooseneck #2 shown in the plans may work well. The spring loaded vang is attached to an eye screw along with a downhaul at the main foot, both adjustable with bowsies. (From the Top): The General Arrangement, The Mast Fittings, and the Tiller Arrangement. Page 11 The shroud turnbuckles by Model Yacht Fittings and at 1 inch in length are in my opinion very close to A. J. Fisher replicas and ideal for this pond boat. Wire shrouds are 45 lb black vinyl coated fishing line leader. The tiller is attached to a rubber band whose tension is adjusted with a bowsie. It is suggested that the mainsheet be attached to one of a series of holes in the tiller only when the boat is on a “run” or “broad reach”; the skip- As soon as weather permitted, launch day arrived at Redds Pond in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The Sea Scout, christened Barbara by the owner, being away from the water at least for several decades, sat almost exactly on her waterline. The owner, Ed Harrow from Hopkinton, Mass, is pleased with the restoration Getting Acclimated and joined members of the Marblehead Vintage club for an afternoon of sailing. The Redds Pond photos are from the collection of the owner. Ready for Relaunch per will need to experiment with various adjustments. The mainsheet attachment, when the boat is on a “beat” and tacking to windward will be connected to the backstay shroud plate as shown on the facing page. A similar type of steering arrangement was found on the Boucher Curlew of 1930 vintage but we lack the main sheet traveler or “horse” found on Curlew and a similar setup to the “Marblehead” or “Clyde” gear found on early pond boats. Page 12 Barbara Barbara, Demonstrating that as a Free Sailing Boat, She’s in Charge The breeze picked up and her sails were filled. Above she is shown to windward of three RC Vintage Marbleheads. Avoiding the rock ledge around the burial ground provided a challenge. The owner will experiment with various adjustments such as rig tension. jib sheet travel mainsheet/tiller connections to optimize running. We do not know the builder of this fine example of a model racing pond boat. If she or he is watching, Thanks for the enjoyment you have brought us. Andy Abrahamson Yankee Down Under Editor’s Note few years ago, the good folks at Float a Boat in Melbourne, Australia agreed to stock out Yankee III book, and as these things typically unfold, Bob Jones of Melbourne purchased a copy and built a lovely version of the boat. As these things also typically unfold, Bob used his skills as a trained engineer to redesign the fittings from the ones given in the book. To the right is Bob’s Page 13 boat. He used mylar for his sails rather than the ripstop nylon called for in the book, and made his spars from carbon fiber fishing pole sections rather than the aluminum arrow shafts of the original. He silver soldered his fittings from K&S brass shapes. The final two pictures show how he did his spreader and main beam outhaul. Above is mast crane, and below is his clean gooseneck and jumper arrangement. Boat and Photos by Bob Jones Spindrift Editor’s Note ere we have another fine restoration, this time by Charles Meister, of the M Class Spindrift. This boat was designed by the naval architect Chester A. Nedwidek, who was responsible for many successful full-scale boats in the 1930’s.The design was offered as a kit by Marine Models and was the subject of a two-part article in Model Craftsman for July and August of 1939. The articles were accompanied by reduced versions of the kit drawings, exquisitely done by Nedwidek, and describing both a plank on frame and a carved hull version of the boat. The combination of the article and the kit would usually mean that quite a few boats would have been built, but two factors com- Page 14 bined to prevent that. First, 1939 was a revolutionary year in the M Class, when the efforts of West Coast skippers like Gus Lassel resulted in the plumb stemmed, full waterline, sliding rig vane boats that dominated after the War. Second, of course, was the onset of WWII with its corresponding depressing effect on model yachting as a whole. So it’s not very easy to find a Spindrift, either in kit form or built. The picture below shows the boat, a classic traditional M design with short overhangs and a large fin. The picture below shows the rigging of the jib boom and the attachment of the jib steering lines, all according to the original plans. Charles succeeded in locating a copy of the original full-size plan, which enabled him to exactly duplicate the fittings and their layout, as shown in the three pictures that follow, starting with the mainmast rigging. Note here and in the next picture that the boat is equipped with a “full up” Braine steering gear including the jib steering. Charles is willing to sell the boat; interested parties should contact him at: Page 15 cmeister@columbus.rr.com Boat and Photos by Charles Meister she sails well under radio. He also did the handsome inlaid deck shown in the pictures. A Replica of a 1920’s Boat Editor’s Note n 1928 Thomas Moore published his classic Build a Winning Model Yacht, which comprehensively document the design and construction practices of the period. Original copies are now quite rare, although an inexpensive reprint is available from D. N. Goodchild.1 Moore was a naval architect working for the U.S. Navy. The section of his book on design is detailed and complete. We reprinted it in The Model Yacht and then put it up on our Web page. Michael Duddy downloaded the plans and build a boat from them, a 40 in LOA design to the MYRAA Class “D” rules. Michael reports that after modification to the sail plan to get read of excessive weather helm (typical of free sailing boats of the era) Boat and Photos by Michael Duddy Chico II Editor’s Note teve Mah began this Chico II at the Woodenboat school class on carved hull models conducted by Al Suydam. As is often the case, the model laid idle for some time and then Steve picked it up again last year and finished it. Here it is on the historic lake at Central Park, New York City. Boat and Photos by Steve Mah 1 www.dngoodchild.com —Ed. Page 16 great advantages over the horizontal lift or waterlines method: it is more economical of wood and it makes it much easier to carve a symmetric hull. Duncan’s layout differs from most in that he has a single lift straddling the centerline of the boat; most designers place two lifts there so that the glue seam between them forms a permanent center line. If you are going to build the boat with a carved hull you will need to produce a fullsize set of lines with the buttock spacing matching the thickness of your stock. Now the lines printed here have had a pretty hard life; originally drawn, reduced and printed on low quality paper, stored in unknown conditions of temperature and humidity for seventy years, scanned and printed again. Distortion is inevitable, and will be magnified when you enlarge the plans 600% at your local copy or blueprint shop. The way to reproduce the original lines is to first lay out a grid on you drawing paper, with stations spaced 5 in, waterlines at 1 in and buttock lines at 1 ⅛ in. Then cut the full size plan apart at the section lines (and waterlines if the deviation is too much) paste the parts onto the drawing, aligning their reference lines to those you have drawn. Then lay tracing paper over that and draw fair curves with battens. Black Watch Editor’s Note ohn B. Duncan was a trained naval architect and a veteran of the British Army, where he rose to the rank of Major. A Scotsman by birth, he gave all his boats names reminiscent of the Auld Country, such as Black Watch documented here. This boat was the subject of a two-part article in The Model Craftsman for September and October 1938. The hull design shows the likely influence of Admiral Turner’s Metacentric Shelf approach and will therefore produce a nicely balanced craft that will sail easily either free or under radio control. The broad transom is definitely ahead of its time. The sails are shown lashed to the booms, something that was very out of date by 1938. Other than that she is a very conventional boat for her period, but her great charm lies in the details, particularly of the fittings. Duncan shows the boat as being constructed with a carved hull, built up on the vertical lift (buttocks) method. This approach has two No sail plan or dimensions are given in the article, but scaling off the profile drawing yields the following: Main Luff: 60 in Main Leach: 61 ½ in Main Foot: 20 ½ in Jib Luff: 35 ½ in Jib Leach: 35 in Jib Foot: 11 in Using the M class measurement formulae we get a 600 sq in main and 176 sq in jib, which is typical for the era. The standing rigging consists of fore and back stays, a jib stay, and two side stays, a lower fixed forward of the mast and an upper fixed aft of the mast. The running rigging is a full-up Braine steering system with jib steering and guying options. Sailing a boat with these rigs is described in Volume 11 Number Two of The Model Yacht. Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 The real charm of this boat lies in the design of the fittings. Duncan’s military background definitely shows in the clever use of 30 caliber shell casings to cap the ends of the spars. Everything is neat, seamanlike, and indicative of an experienced model yachtsman. Note the accommodation for stowage of the guying sheets and for the shrouds when the rig is taken down. These drawings are copyright Carstens Publication and are excerpted here for purposes of research and education. Design by John B. Duncan (1938) Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 commodore’s cup for Skipjacks (Buck at right) and the St Michaels/ Solomons Island skipjack challenge regatta. Al Suydam God, how sad it is to lose a friend, even one whom you never met but respected, one whom you only `sort of knew’ through letters and emails, one who extended the hands of friendship with you by helping a writer with photos and information whenever he was asked. Parker (Buck) McClennan, I found you to be that sort of man and news of your passing came to me in an email this morning like a hot wind that left me sad and dejected, breathless and becalmed and wanting your family to know that even another distant, friend you never met, already misses you. Buck McClellan Mark Steele Eight Bells Buck McClellan, past commodore of the Solomons Island Model Boat Club in Solomons, Maryland, passed away on May 4, 2008 after a long battle with cancer. Buck was a graduate of the Naval Academy and a career Navy officer, attaining the rank of Captain. Some of his accomplishments included commanding officer of the USS Excel, and commanding officer of the Naval Station New York and chief of staff commander of Naval Base Philadelphia. After he retired from the Navy, Buck became a successful yacht broker before moving to Southern Maryland. He started volunteering at the Calvert Marine Museum and joined the Solomons Island Model Boat Club (SIMBC) which is sponsored by the Museum. Buck took over the position of commodore when the club founder and first commodore “Pepper” Langley was unable to continue in that office. Buck was the driving force behind the many Traditional Vintage Model Regattas held by the club in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006. These weekend regattas were very popular with both skippers and wives of traditional schooners and skipjacks. A great time was had by all, especially with the Saturday night gatherings at the Solomons Island Yacht club. The Model Yacht is published three times a year by the U.S. Vintage Model Yacht Group. Copyright 1998 to 2008 U.S.V.M.Y.G. Reproduction for noncommercial purposes permitted; all other rights reserved. Other copyrights are maintained by the original holders and such material is used here under the fair use provisions of the relevant copyright acts for nonprofit research and educational purposes. Editorial Address: 9219 Flushing Meadows NE Albuquerque NM 87111 Email: boebert@swcp.com Phone: 505 823 1046 Officers of the U.S. Vintage Model Yacht Group: President: John Snow Eastern Vice-President: Ben Martin Western Vice-President: Dominic Meo, III Midwest Vice-President: Tom Pratt Southeastern Vice-President: Thom Mclaughlin Vintage M Class Coordinator: John Henson Vintage 36 Inch Coordinator: Al Suydam A Class Coordinator: Rod Carr U.K. Coordinator: Graham Reeves Canadian Representative: Doug McMain Historian: Earl Boebert Archivist: Jim Dolan Buck was very active in model yachting in Southern Maryland, sailing skipjacks with SIMBC, and schooners with the Great Schooner Society. As recent as last fall, Buck was still in top sailing form, winning both the Page 26