America Challenges Great Britain for International Trophy. In January the model yachtsmen of America, through the Model Yacht Racing Association, challenged the British Model Yachting Association for the Yachting Monthly Cup, a challenge cup set up in 1923 for international competition.
A Class B Model Yacht. In response to the demand for plans of model yachts built under the measurement of Model Yacht Racing Association of America, we are publishing in this month’s issue of Yachting the design of a Class B yacht, prepared by FT Wood of Providence, RI.
Model Yachting America Challenges Great Britain for International Trophy N January the model yachtsmen of America, through the Model Yacht Racing Association, challenged the British Model Yachting Association for the Yachting Monthly Cup, a challenge cup put up in 1923 for international competition. The race will be sailed in England, on an inland lake or pond, not yet named, some time in the first half of August. All of the clubs in the Model Yacht Racing Association of America have been invited to build boats to the oe — fib > British Rule to enter elimination races to pick a boat to represent this country. Several members of the Model Yacht Clubs of the East are building boats for this event, or have already built them. Two or more of these boats are for members of the Prospect Park Model Yacht Club, and the Boston Model Yacht Club is building several, while the Central Park and Detroit Clubs are expected to have one or two boats in the trial races. The races will probably be held during the first half of July on waters to be selected by the Model Yacht Racing Association of America, the exact location to be announced in the next issue of YACHTING, The following is the British formula under which the boats will be measured, and the general conditions: “A model must be designed, built, owned and sailed by persons of the nationality of the club it represents, and must be handled in the races by amateurs. The races shall be open to models not exceeding 6 meters (19.68 ft.) on the scale of 2 in. = 1 ft. by the following formula: Rating = L+V8 , LVS 12./D Length for rating to be: l.w.l. + 4% any excess in “quarter beam” measurement—hull measurements and displacement being taken as the Universal Rule and sail area as by the International Rule. A ClassBModel Yacht N response to the demand for plans of model yachts built under the measurement of Model Yacht Racing Association of America, we are publishing in this month’s issue of YACHTING the design of a Class B yacht, prepared by F. T. Wood, of Providence, R. I. The boat was designed for, and is being built by, Phil Pile, of the Central Park Model Yacht Club, of New York. The dimensions of the boat are as follows: 1.0.a., 66” ; L.w.l., 48”; beam, 1314″; draft (total), 1634″; displace- ment, 45.62 Ibs.; sail area, 3,150 square inches. To the uninitiated, the long keel shown in this design may look peculiar. But a long lateral plane is a necessity for a model yacht whose owner wishes an éven chance with other models when running free. This peculiarity is seen in all of the large model yachts, especially those that race for the Brooklyn Eagle Cup, which is the “blue ribbon” trophy of the sport of miniature yacht racing. Sail plan and lines of a Class B Model by F. T. Wood for Phil desi Yacht, Pile. Details of steering gear of the Polka Dot are shown in upper corner. | The major racing yachts, if scaled down and raced as miniatures, would have absolutely no chance with the fastest models of Class B, because, no matter how good their performance to windward might be, when on the running leg of the course they would yaw so badly and veer so much from the true course that they would be hopelessly beaten by rule models.
