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There are wonderful educational possibilities in a good model yacht, while as a sporting or recreational activity, boating deserves serious consideration. A young man can get more pleasure out of an afternoon’s try-out of a model boat along the banks of some cool lake or stream, than he could by spending days in some closed-in back yard.
The skill or technique necessary to build a large 36-foot cruiser or sailboat sufficiently large to carry several passengers, is possessed by only a few amateurs ; yet almost any boy of the seventh or eighth grade can build the boats mentioned in this text, and make good jobs of them too.
- Chapter I: Tools and Materials
- Chapter II: Stern Wheel Boat, Rubber Band Drive
- Chapter III: The Construction of Hulls
- Chapter IV: Model Motor Speed Boat
- Chapter V: The 36-inch Cruiser Type Motor Boat
- Chapter VI: 30 in Model Shallow Draft Motor Boat
- Chapter VII: The Sailing Yachts
- The 24-inch Sharpie or Yacht
- The 30-inch Model Yacht
- The Making of a 36-inch Model Yacht
- Chapter VIII: Sailing of a Model Yacht
- The Flat Bottom Skiff
