Up-and-Flying Model Sailboat

This article was published in Popular Mechanics August 1966 issue on page 165. It is available to read through Google Books.

by Roy Clough Jr.

Stripping a couple of yards from my spinning rod, I hooked the swivel to the stern of the weird little craft and set it gently on the water. Wind riffled across the millpond and caught the stiff balsa sail.

Roy Clough – developer of the Marblehead – describes how to build and sail this little hydrofoil that skims over the water attached to his spinning rod.

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