Model Maker: Volume 4, Issue 47 – October 1954

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BIRMINGHAM Il ——_—— Rea fags ts gs ert oe at KINDLY MENTION “MOCEL MAKER” a eg! Be es ast RT WHEN REPLYING Sag TO SATE ee A ADVERTISEMENTS THE 1954 CHAMPI GOSPORT REPORTED BY Pais year’s championship at Gosport saw many interesting entries, all varieties of weather, a finish as tense as could be desired, and, most important, some really fine sailing. With 32 starters, O.0.D. Mark Fairbrother elected to sail in two fleets during the early part of the week, giving comment was received by Roberta, a new Priest design based on Yeoman. The first board started in a steady rain which persisted for all Monday morning and reappeared on Tuesday: not till Thursday, Friday and Saturday was any appreciable sun seen. The wind was quite stiff in the first part of the week— boats were planing and some even went into lower suits—but towards the end it was all round the lake and extremely fitful. With the changeable conditions crews really had to know their boats to earn a high overall score, and, in fact, Kai Ipsen, the winner, attributes most of his success to the fact that he knows Revanche so well. By Wednesday evening Revanche had a one-point lead over four relatively new boats (Moonraker, Roberta, Red Sabre and Samoena) and on Thursday opened this lead to a margin of 6 points over his closest contestant. Friday saw a complete change, with several boats within striking distance and Moonraker actually tying. This tie 1. Winner’s smile from Kai Ipsen, who becomes the fourth skipper to]twice-win the trophy since its inception in 1923. 2. Well deserved runner-up: Peter West and Moonraker. 3. Delightful scene at Gosport pool’s eastern end. 4. Very first pair away were 1948 and 1953 winners Tinker Bell and Arabesque; note weather. 5. Pandora, off against Revanche, failed to repeat last year’s third place. 6. 676 Moonraker builds up a quick wave; opponent is 677 Maybee. * 7. Samoena’s circular hull looks more pleasing barbs age Arabesque e —= everyone some free time, amalgamating for the last days so that the full tournament was actually sailed. Among the entries were several new boats and what made the regatta especially interesting was the presence of what are considered to be the best designs of several well-known designers. A brief survey of outstanding boats will be found in Tucker’s Topics, but we might mention here that Samoena, designed on the circular arc theory, attracted considerable attention, and shook not a few skippers, and most favourable A CLASS ONSHIPS AUGUST 8-14th VIC SMEED lasted well into Saturday, but then Kai started to creep ahead and would have been unassailable had it not been for an unfortunate disqualification. On a beat with Samoena both boats came in, Samoena slightly ahead. Both re-trimmed and Revanche, gying further out, obtained the better position and was flagged as winner of the board. However, on release Revanche’s jib had flapped—in the light, variable breeze a jib could be full one second and shaking the next— and after a discussion the board was awarded to Samoena. The three points thus lost later meant that, coming up to the last board, Moonraker could win by beating Fantasy or by Revanche losing to York. In fact, Fantasy led Moonraker ’ by a couple of lengths, and Revanche romped across the line to the applause of the crowd. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Revanche (which incidentally, won the event in 1951) is that, if it wasn’t the lightest boat sailing (4941b.) its 31]b. lead was almost certainly the lightest there. Other dimensions are: L.O.A. 77.8, L.W.L. 53, max. beam 16, L.W.L. beam 15.85, top sit area 1554.9. Kai had laid in a stock of timber for a new boat but is no doubt delighted that he had changed his mind. The second boat, Moonraker, put up a splendid show, especially when one considers that Peter West has only been sailing for four years. Principal dimensions are: L.O.A. 78.5, L.W.L. 54.3, L.W.L. beam 15.75, displacement 62.5 Ib., top suit 1748.7. An unusual sidelight on the two leading boats is that, with around lin. difference in length, their total overhangs compare very closely, but reversed, viz., Revanche 10 in. for’ard and 14.8 aft, Moonraker 14.8 for’ard and 9.5 aft. As has come to be expected, the organisation of this event was most efficient and, except for some understandable 8. Pinocchio, one of the three Arabesques entered, leads Pandora off the duckboard. 9. Two Priest designs, Roberta and Betty XI; former placed third. 10. Charm and Roberta crossing the line typify the many close finishes. 11. The board that dashed Moonraker’s hopes; Fantasy leads across the line. 12. Typically French was fanine’s mate; Red Sabre follows up. 13. Scamp and Moonraker make a perfect picture on the beat. Scamp was highest placed of the pre-war boats. f 14. Scheherezade pare leads the ill-~starred experimental Chivalry ¢ MODEL MAKER Right: Old ourite and fav- Fantasy 4th place boat Fullanar. Far right: Revanche and Samoena afloat. Arciform hull of latter is well shown below, vanche’s with Re- skim- ming dish form shown for com- Parison. Inset: Special request —the tea- and bun department! committee, the O.0.D. and officials. So passes the twenty-fifth championship. Next year, Fleetwood, and, we predict, many new boats, for there is no doubt that this year’s meeting proved the newer yachts to have the legs of the old. It also proved that terylene sails are defi- nitely here to stay, probably over of the entrants used them. However, as the results show, good consistent skippering is still the main factor especially when the tournament is spread over a week of such variable weather as was experienced at Gosport. 60 per cent. testiness in the trying light airs towards the end of the week, the whole tournament passed smoothly, for which all credit is due to the RESULTS Yacht No Owner Club Designer Builder Revanche Moonraker D.22| K. Ipsen… 676 | P. West Denmark Portsmouth Ipsen Turner Ipsen West Jullanar 712 | L. Davis… Gosport Civil Davis Red Sabre Samoena Arabesque Scamp … Scheherezade 704 | H. E. Andrews 714 | F. Douglas Newcastle Andrews Douglas | 530 | L. Corrooin 649 | W. Baker Trixie I | 715 | D. Pinsent Roberta 707 | D. Lippett Vanity Fair The Stranger 679 | 3. Meir … … 619 | E. Jones… 661 | A. Clark 520 | G. B. Lee Janine … F26 | H.Boussy Naiad 357 | A. Hill … 47| | L. Dawson Grenadier Oberon 706 | J. Roberts 711 | B. H. Priest Pandora 682 | J. Craker Tinker Bell Hesperos 581 | E. Gower 329 | C. Whitmore Marian 476 677 70! 718 | | | | Littlejohn Fleetwood Portsmouth Alexander Turner Paignton Daniels Y.M. 6m. O.A. France … … … | Fleetwood .. Y.M. 6m. O.A. olton … Y.M. 6m. O.A. Bradford … Birkenhead Fleetwood 531 | J. Lapsley Orchid 621 | V. Crean 719 | W. Porter Levison Alexander Farley Pinsent Nash Corby Boussy | Alexander Dawson Holden Roberts | Newcastle Andrews Turner Turner Jurd Jurd Baker Crean Bradford Daniels Priest 556 37 56 58 68 68 84 4 3 33 45 28 32 27 65 65 5 2 6 … | Craker Corby Lapsley Alexander 26 65 75 95 107 89 10! 72 92 100 99 63 53 68 60 79 78 93 92 74 88 57: | 69: | 86) | 102 934 | 34 53 66 78 91 26 22 27 56 50 54 63 58 73 74 71 88 87 86 5 36 54 60 72 80 5 30 42 54 él 78 36 33 57 46 13 28 47 25 34 8 26 5 5 10 15 0 5 6 5 10 oe 39 7 3 5 Levison | Eastbourne Eastbourne Nottingham 18 22 … | Marsh .. Poole… 114 112 0 Daniels Daniels | Alexander Alexander Priest .. | Amlot Littlejohn Levison Corby S; 97 97 24 Clark Lee … 664 | F. Shackleton … | Felixstowe F. 8! 74 7 | Boussy … | Littlejohn ike 66 65 Levison Jones Birkenhead… | Priest Ww. 36 32 22 Davey Holden T. 10 2 Levison … | Levison Douglas Snr. Gosport Davey … | Eastbourne… | Lee C. Smith H. Atkinson H. Amlot F. Dutton Thistle York Barrow … M.Y.S.A. 623 | E. Blackshaw … | N. Liverpool … | Nash Chivalry Charm Maybee Betty XI Pinocchio Nash Gosport 356 | N. D. Hatfield Flame Priest Birmingham 67! | J. Anderton Mouette Reveille Fantasy Birmingham M. 13 3 23 6 16 is 13 62 56 76 7I 88 78 51 60 59 70 71 77 47 49 60 7I 46 44s 43 43 46 49 5l 53 32 26 35 28 444 40 474 43 26 28 36 26 17 29 13 20 21 31 32 21 65 514 59 49 78 38 394 35 37 16 4 67 48 35 7I 684 65 55 50 43 264 | 294 MODE MAKER) A SCALE STAR CLASS YAC HT International Star Class dinghies, a grou p of which are shown racing at Genoa in the Gabor Denes photograph above, are among the liveliest small sailing craft afloat. N. Gamble’s twenty-inch model will provide many hours of pondsid e fun FROR every serious sailing enthusiast there must be at least a dozen or so peopl e who are interested in having a little yacht to take along to the nearest pond for an hour or two’s relaxation. This small, simply-built scale model is ideal for such purposes, and has the added advantages of being light on the pocket and constructed from easily-obtained materials. Little need be said about the basic building procedure, but for the absolute tyro the order of construction is (a) trace and cut out keel and bulkheads, (b) glue bulkheads in place, (c) when dry add gunwales and chines, (d) cover sides and bottom with 1/32 in. ply. (e) apply one or two coats of white lead paint to the whole of the interior and leave to dry. Now mark and cut out the deck and carefully trace the positions of all screw -eyes and horses. Beneath each mark glue a small block of wood to take the thread of the eye. Paint the underside of the deck. Add all reinfo rcing blocks inside the hull for the gunwale screw- eyes and the }in. ply king-plank between bulkheads 1 and 2, checking that the mast will sit at the correct angle. Fit the rudder tube 584 and glue the deck in place. coaming and washboards. Add _ cockpit The rudder assembly should now be soldered together, the rudder post slipped throug h the tube, and the quadrant soldered to the top after placing a short length of tube on the post as a spacer. Screw in all screw-eyes, and mark the positions for the horses with a fine hole. Cast the lead as indicated and saw and file to shape and weight (weight being more import ant than shape!). Bolt in place with two 6 B.A. bolts, countersinking heads and nuts. The hull is now ready for sanding preparatory to painting/and or varnishing. This subject has been frequently covered, and it is only necess ary to suggest that a lined and varnished deck and white hull with green boot-top will set this model off to best advantage. Select clean, straight-grained birch dowel for the mast; cut to length and taper—a tedious job for which there is no short-cut. Fit jumper strut, hounds fitting and eye for boom gooseneck and step in place. Plane boom to size, fit eyes, and connect to mast with a screw- eye opened up and squeezed closed in place. Rig with 33 swg. plated piano wire (as used for control-line aircraft) tightening as far as possible before making off the ends and securing with a touch of solder. | Plastic sails, from polystrene food bags, offer many advantages, but a tube of polystrene cement is essential (most model shops stock it). Alternatively, use nurse’s veiling, using the selvidge for the leaches (rear edges) and hemming the other sides. Lace the mainsail in place with good quality thread, using long oversewn stitches, and bend the jib as indicated. Connect up the quadrant running lines and sheets. An optional celluloid boom is shown on the jib, the use of which will allow a full jib-sheet to be fitted; if the boom is omitted the sheet must be made off in the eyelet and adjustment will be limited, though this will not have serious adverse effects on sailing. During construction, don’t be afraid to use SCALE fe poe N. GAMBLE COPYRIGHT a se: \ ae MODEL MAKER PLANS SERVICE 38 CLARENDON RO. WATFORD. HERTS. ? 4 SS tee ei ea ral A j- Soom (eee 10 roL- be 4 in. ply in any event. With balsa skinning it would be advisable to tissue or silk cover the outside before painting or doping. However, working in the specified materials is really just as easy, and the finished boat will, perhaps, be a little more durable. as MATERIALS 4 x Us 20° x Ye”20″PLYSPRUCE 4 vex OR OBECHE 1 vex 2° x IBY. – i —o= eee bo” BOTH RUNNING LINES B8OWSIE—~ p — \ BRASS, WIRE, BOWSIES, LEAD, ETC Z Ts = wast SOOM B \ SS’swe PLATED / Piano WIRE. na BAS SCRAP 6″ PLY, va” Ine” SPRUCE, Pid, EVER OO STE SERVICE * pana a Zitat a” DOWELSia 136″ 1 jax 12″ vac PLANS MODEL MAKER PRICE 3/- FROM BOOM Ua” x Sne” SPRUCE TAPERED TO Va”X MeTM FOOT OF JIB MAY BE } Use a waterproof cement such as Durofix or a gapfilling glue (Aerolite 300, Beetle, etc.) and use dressmakers’ steel pins to hold the skin while drying, withdrawing them on completion. No permanent pins are needed. Ensure free movement of the rudder and do not lower the steering quadrant on the rudder post. The cockpit interior can be detailed with a bench seat each side and wooden duckboard flooring if desired. There appears to be no reason as to why the hull of this model should not be built in balsa, using hard }in. sheet for all construction, including skinning. The main keel member should BOWSIES- METAL OR WIRE YUMPER STRUT, THENCE TO ve \ the glasspaper block to ensure snug fits. a TAPERED 10 Taeat STAR CLASS eat! YACH 1954 BELOW ARE AVAILABLE DRAWING OF THE FULL SIZE COPIES OCTOBER, nT STRUT —~ / w 2 aaove deck — F is 18 SWG. SOLDERED To 16 SWG. BRASS a ALUMINIUM TUBE HORSES 16 SWS Loken WASHER SOLDERED PIPE, SAW IN. ozs. CAST IN M4″10. PLACE 9’ FILE tEaDHALF, THUS “~~ TO WEIGHT, BOLT IN nfl OR OBECHE De rj 7 ty BLOCKS GLUED BENEATH DECK 18 SWG BRASS QUADRANT Ym OR LINEN THREAD FISHING LINE RUNNING LINES 8 SHEETS HULL SKINNED & DECKED WITH 32″ PLY .2UT SAILS FROM POLYSTRENE SANDWICH BAG, ea INSERT EYELETS AS INDICATED MOEN MAKER) She has a midsection reminiscent of the old Daniels 10..R XPDNC. Her designer’s own boat, Red Sabre, is far more conventional and a very nice boat on which he deserves congratulation. Two new sisters to Littlejohn’s Arabesque design appeared. One is built bread-and-butter and the ~ Tucker’s Topics BEING THE MAINLY A CLASS THOUGHTS other planked. The latter appeared, however, to differ considerably from her sisters, and I thought she was decidedly the fastest of the three. I do not know whether the designer has modified the lines slightly or whether the difference is accidental. If so, it would appear that when the hull came off the moulds, it sprung slightly and the ends dropped fractionally, thus easing the turn round the midship section and filling out the ends slightly. Finally, reference must be made to Samoena, designed on Guy Blogg’s circular arc system. This boat is an exact double-ender as far as the canoe body is concerned, and, therefore, exactly balanced, While her maximum speed did not appear excessive, her reliability and docility won her many points. She was very well handled and her crew got the ON CHAMPIONSHIPS KS Pe ‘THE A-Class Championship at Gosport this year was very interesting for designers, not so much from the result as for the opportunity to see the boats sailing in all weather conditions. In judging the merits of respective boats, one must largely disregard the scoreboard. Success in racing is due mainly to the skipper, and a good skipper often beats better boats less well handled. Good sails and utmost out of her. During the Regatta I had two interesting conversations. The first was with Major M. Heckstall Smith, who was an interested spectator throughout the event. He remarked on the vast improvement in sailing due to Vane Steering Gear, and said that in his opinion this sailed the boat better than the average human helmsman, but could not have the best helmsman’s faculty of anticipation of wind variation before they reached the boat. My second chat was with a gentleman well known in the model world generally, and we discussed Radio Control, about which he knows technically far more than I do. He said that it would be gear also are an aid to winning races, and so to a limited extent is luck. If one wants to assess the merits of a design in the hands of a poor skipper, one must disregard bad boards, and watch for moments when all is going well and the boat appears to be travelling at her best. Even the worst skipper occasionally makes an excellent trim. It was instructive to note how much faster in all weights of wind, the newer boats were when compared with their older sisters. The latter included quite a number of celebrated pre-war boats, and some of them notched quite a few points, but these were attributable to the skippers rather than the speed of the boats. One of these older boats was handled better than any craft on the lake, and it was a treat impossible to combine radio control with automatic steering such as the Vane Gear, and that he thought that R.C. would never have much appeal to real sailing men. To my surprise he added that the most advanced model aeroplane men also did not favour it, and he considered that the future of R.C. lay with those who are interested in R.C. for its own sake. to watch how her sails were kept asleep to windward in light winds, sailing. the greatest test of skill in model $ * Among the new craft, several were of outstanding interest. W. J. Daniels, the Regatta. was perhaps the prettiest yacht in Moonraker, although three years old, is now coming into her own. She is the best looking and fastest of all the Turner brood in my opinion. Her performances in light weather were surprising in spite of her 63 lb. displacement. es Roberta is a good looker and sails very well. She is notably clean through the water and uses her length to great advantage. She is a great improvement on Priest’s Yeoman design, and by far the best he has designed to date. Dick Priest himself had a freakish boat to a later design in Chivalry. She was designed to prove whether it is an advantage to have reverse curves low in the profile and thus lower the overhangs. The result of this was a most peculiar action and a wavethrow that shortened the distance between the crests of her bow and stern waves. This decreased her sailing length and slowed the boat. She also had a seal flipper fin which appeared to make her far from easy to handle. I trust my friend, Priest, will pardon my saying that I disliked Chivalry as much as I liked the charming Roberta! Pandora came South with a great reputation as a hard weather boat, but utterly failed to uphold this. * * * * In the September number, Mr. B. H. Priest gave a very useful looking little M-Class design Witchcraft. Actually the boat looks far better in the design than in the photograph, except for the turn of the stem, which the builder seems to have rounded off to suit Trixie IJ, a new boat from the board of his eye. The seal flipper fin is a very modest this feature, and with the smallest fill-in of the trailing edge would be perfectly know the designer will not agree, but I edition of at the top normal. I think the small gain in wetted surface area is more than offset by the shortening of the streamlines in the upper part of the fin, especially as this is in the after part where long smooth lines are desirable. Mr. Priest disagrees with my opinion on the foreand-aft position of the skeg and rudder. If you work it on moments from either the C.B. or C.L.R. he is right. If you consider the greater effect the rudder has working in water below the body, I am right, and do not forget that it does not matter when the rudder is amidships that it is behind the fin, because we neither want nor get any steering effect from the rudder when it is amidships. With designs in which I have placed the rudderpost at about 90 p.c. of L.W.L., I have always found the boats extremely responsive to small helm angles. But I have also found that these take more power to hold than with the rudder-post further aft. So take your choice! 588 J. W. METCALF VISITS. SOME CONTINENTAL YACHT–CLOBS Left: The beautiful setting at Versailles, with competitors preparing for the C.O.B. Cup. Race. On opposite page: Mlle. Raux of the Rheims Club,. probably the only lady skipper: in France. Bottom: Spacious workshop of M.Y.C., hull in with the the a Reims. Marblehead foreground, nearing completion WHILE on holiday in France recently the no sailing (the club sails on the canal for lack of better facilities) mainly because the members writer had the opportunity of meeting many model yachtsmen in Paris and Reims, were and it is felt that a short account of their activities may be of interest to our friends at Opportunity home. First a visit was paid to Reims, where I found an enthusiasm for model yachting that distance overcome. They is only think something to motor coach, rounding up all the boats 1 metre class yachts. a and skippers they can, pile the boats on top of the manage to bring Amiens and Paris are regularly visited. The Reims club has its own headquarters in the Foyer Remois, which is a social service centre, built by funds raised by the 600 families on an estate built shortly after World War I. An excellently run centre, in the very capable hands of Mlle. Voisin, who is an old friend of Mr. John Black. The centre caters for all tastes in hobbycrafts, and is complete with workshops, swimming baths, theatre and a splendid new Children’s Home. On the day that I was in Reims, there was of visiting a visit to Paris workshops where But I did have the the clubs (C.O.B., M.G.T., M.Y.C.P.) were joined in full force by the Reims men with 28 French coach, and away (often at 5 a.m.) to visit other clubs. And they usually home some of the prizes. for Sunday, June 27th, at Versailles, a race for the C.O.B. Cup was being held and there the local be nothing of hiring ready several members were at work on new boats, some of which were ‘“M’s”, which class is growing rapidly in France. However, on must be second to none in France. Reims has the youngest club in the country, and has the biggest membership of all, approximately fifty seniors and juniors—mainly the latter—and much of the enthusiasm is due to the energy of their President, M. Rene Cheret. Distances between clubs are, on the average, greater than in England, but so far as the Reims club is concerned, getting (Versailles) next day. Leaving Reims at 5 a.m. they arrived shortly after nine o’clock and began setting up their “stall’’. Unfortunately the Grand Canal was covered in thick weed (and don’t we all have this trouble?) but all hands, including the visitors, set to work in an effort to make sailing possible. It was not until 10 a.m. that a start was possible, and with a total of 36 yachts, the headaches of the two officials in charge, Messrs. Boussy and Bleveau can well be left to the imagination. In spite of light westerly airs, a start was made by sailing in divisions, nine groups of four boats each, and although what little wind there was just about went “all round the houses”, every skipper was keen to get the best out of his yacht. And here I must not forget to mention the only lady skipper in the race—indeed she is possibly the only one in France, for I heard no mention of others— Mile. Raux from Reims. Though she did not figure in the prize list, she had the greatest 590 OCTOBER, prize of all; a ready smile, and a charming manner. Many of the skippers were juniors, but they handled their craft extremely well, and they took their share of the prizes. While the French 1 metre class is the most numerous, largely because there are a few restrictive measurements and they are easily transported, there is a growing number of “M” Class, and in order to encourage the “M’s”, M. Pico, a member of one of the Paris clubs, has given a cup, which is to be sailed for in September. Another reason for the popularity of the 1 metre is the lack of skilled designers in France—a large percentage of the boats are designed by eye and then scraped into the rule somehow. Nevertheless, some very pretty yachts do result. The L.O.A. is, as the name implies, 1 metre. They carry about 540 sq. in. sail, battens extend the ‘ full width of the sails, both in jib and main. Braine steering is usual. There is no restriction on beam, displacement or method of construction, but the average displacement is around 8 to 10lb. Beam varies considerably, being anything from 8 up to 12 inches. Many yachts have very pronounced flared bows and sharpies are more in evidence than round boats. The French model yachtsman is a keen pondside critic, but he is also equally keen when he gets his yacht on the water, and thoroughly enjoys his day out. The Frenchman’s model yachting is a real family affair, lunch being taken picnic fashion, when the wine flows freely. bi ; a * A short “pilgrimage” to Enghien-les-Bain just had to be made, for it was on Lac d’Enghien in 1912 that the first international model yacht race was sailed, when Mr. Daniels (he is referred to in France as the “Great” Mr. Daniels) went over and cleared up the prize list. Alas, the lake is no longer used for model yachting, for it is only suitable for open water sailing. It is, however, used by full-scale yachts, which appear to be about equivalent to our “National” Classes. In closing this short account, while it is invidious to mention names, I would like to thank especially M. and Mme. Boussy; (Paris) M. and Mme. Cheret; and Mlle. Voisin, of Reims, for their wonderful hospitality and for their help in making possible this story. To them and all the grand folk we met, our best thanks and good wishes for the future of model yachting in France. 591 1954