Model Yachting: Volume 3, Issue 36 – January 1948

all got a whale of a lot of fun sailin with the Braine and we will again, plu~ the added pleasure of telling the nc•’ comer how we used “to do it.” \ Both Farley and our President wrot( with tongues in their cheeks in attempting to annalize the disease that has th, sport on a sick bed. Not that they don·~ know what’s wrong, but because they feared repercussions- -I don’t. The 011, design is to my way of thinking, the sport’s salvation. Time has come to place the cards on the table and name them. The one-design (provided it becomes a marketable product) will cure a number of chronical ills that have a strangle hold on the sport, but, of course not all. ‘ All sports have during their adolecence developed a group of “experts” who subsequently had to be segregated into a special class for the good of the sport and save it from stagnation thru the lack of general competition. In model yachting we suffer, not from the concentration of strategic skill, but from an ever increasing predomanance of mechanical skill. Even the most ardent rank-and tile skippers have become recon, ciled to the belief that model yachting has ceased to be a sport and has become a contest between designers and mechanics, with the rest of the skippers acting as trial-horses. Will the one,design change all this? We are of the firm belief that it will. The “A” class is a craft for the fellow that is a super-mechanic or one who has a few hundred dollars to play with. Don’t kid yourself that the novice is over anxious to buy a second hand boat that the builder is willing to discard for obvious reasons also known to the novice. The hobby,mechanic will not attempt to build a boat surrounded by mathematical problems (scantlings), metrically correct, or the painstaking work of many, many nights becomes just another dissappointment. For this rea, son the class has not become very popu’ lar and in 5’0% of the clubs there isn’t a single “A.” Consequently this class belongs in the .. expert class” and has ?J1,q,?l,,~J,,4,g£4.fo19 MAIN OFFICE 71 Calla Street, Providence 5, R. I. Founded Charles Under in 1946 by H. Farley order of MODEL YACHT RACING ASS’N OF AM. J. Freeman Santos, Managing EditoT Associate Editor Miss Jeanne A. Santos, Howard I. Angell and Circulation Mirr. 86 Brandon Road, Cranston, R. I. Trea ■ urer Mid-West Rep. Wes tern Rep. Leslie Gesback G. C. Gallagher Subscription, One Year, $2.00 la U. S. and Canada: $2.50 Fore~n All ,-ights ,.,u,.vtd. Notlaittg that apptaf’s ,,. this maga.rint may bt ,.,p,-od1’ctd, tit,U,- wholly Of’ in /)af’t. tVitho11t writtttt ,,,,.mission of tlat Edito,- actttt(I fo,- tht MYRA.A Of’ f,-om o cont,-iblltof’ who f’tStf’Vtl his nghts. Vol. III No. 11 JANUARY FORE’N!J AFT THE “HELEN J” In the Dec. issue we presented the one-design plans by Harry E. Richard, son of South Boston, and approved at the 1947 Annual Meeting. A careful analysis of the design wiil prove that she has every desirable feature to make her a very popular craft. “Yachty” in appearance, stable in any kind of weather and appealing on any hobby shop counter. As a class she will be Braine rigged. This was considered necessary not only from the point of view of simplicity to the novice, but in order to keep the initial cost at a minimum. When raced out of class, e.i. with the “M’s,” vane may be used anci’ a narrow rudder substituted. As a class boat sails, rudder and standing rig will b; identical. Skippers will be allowed to sheet sails by their pet gadgets. No sliding rigs Before the advent of the “vane” we Cont. on Page 11 2 Tom Allen’s .-\.:;an organized group, the San Diego \t,,Jd Yacht Club is less than a year old, •.. 1c racing in the larger boats has long •,,·,·nan avocation of many of its memIGN rot SS YACHTARROW ,~, 6Y AIN S BALLANTY N [ .1J£ DISPLACEMfNT lat In presenting the plans of “ARROW III” we are bringing to our readers the outstanding performer in the 1947 “M” clas·s. This boat of maximum water line length reveals some very interesting lines. Few designers are as pains- taking and calculative as our Ains Ballantyne, and we naturally expect any of his marine creations to be “out of the ordinary” performers—and they usually are. quite full. Extreme beam has been placed aft of the center and these aft sections are also The easy flowing blidge indicates a stable powerful hull that handles well in any breeze. from the designer. Plans may be had _ 11Sunda.y the 21st and was as close • c·\citing a race as anyone would _\. George won the first round and ;iid have taken the final one except for ,·rrnr in _judgement in breaking tack. · … hnal scores were:.c FRISCO LEADS THE WAY The San Francisco Model Yacht Club will pay annual subscriptions to MODEL YACHTING for each member continuing in good standing, and, starting January, 1948, the regular dues will be increased to cover annual subscription to Model Yachting. ( Motion passed at November Meeting) \\’. D. Hopkins ……………….. 11 plus l ;L'()rgeWhite ………………….11 \!.1lcolm Robertson ………….. 10 FrL·JGould ………………………. 9 :\ I!en White…………………….. 8 !)ill Spear ………………………… 7 Dnn Diedenk.. …. .. .. .. …. .. …… 6 NOTES FROM SAN FRANSISCO BAY AREA Novice Championship One of the most interesting races ever ., 1rncssedhere in Albany was the match ~.ic:..: between the two novices Allen \\’hite and Don Diedenk for the Novice ( :h.1mpionship. Both boys displayed a :,r,111Jof sailing stratagy that had us , IJ;;ters cheering with excitement. Don “·ho has showed consistant improvement 1hruout the past season nosed out Allen t\\’O out of three to become the 1947 Champion. Annual Meeting For the third consecutive year Fred (:ould was re-elected Commodore ‘of the Club. and was on the receivina~ end of 111i;u11mous commendations for his ex,.::lent work during his term of office l11conformity with our policy of cater, ‘1H~ to the younger element, we elected ~on Diedenk Vice-Commodore. Ever t;tithful “Doc” Allen was re-elected Sec’y-Treasurer whose address is H. V. D. Allen. 1506 Union Street, Schenec• t:idv. N.Y. . Mrs. Dorothy Hopkins was the re’ ‘! 1ent of a resolution thanking her for her untiring efforts in making the variou·, meets during the season the success they were. ,,. ,,. ,,. The San Francisco Model Yacht Club has elected the following officers for 1948 Commodore ……………. B. F. Schmidt Vice-Com …………. Virgil Gustavino Secretary …………………. Don R. Lyon Measurer ……………… Milton Haxton Director at large …….. John Petterson These officers were elected at the Ann ual Meeting which was held on Dec. 11. •At the same meeting, the proposal to increase the dues to $6.00 per year which will include subscription to MODEL YACHTING was confirmed for the period of one year. The club’s Annual Tom and Jerry Party will be held at the clubhouse on Sunday, Dec. 28 from 10 :00 A. M. on. together with such informal power and sail events as the members may wish to take the time for; depending on the height of the tide over the bar. A heating plant for the clubhouse has been authorized by the Park Commissioners; it is expected to be installed at an early date. G. C. Gallagher ______ MODEL YACHTING _____ _ FOREST HILL CLUB The Deeper Hudson Club looks forward with great faith and hope that the l 948 season will be the best ever, with renewed enthusiasm, greater membership ;tnd heavily attended races. At the regular monthly meeting Nov. 15, the 1-plus-1 system of scoring was unanimusly adopted. The club has been using this system all season and feel that it is far more satisfactory then the old system. The scores were very close, which Wilbur Hopkins 9 crcatcJ much interest ’till the bout.I was sailcJ. To illustr,Ltc, here is the averages of the members that participated in most of the races during the season:– Russel Sav;tue………………………… Will Post ……………………………… Don Boultcr ………………………….. Will Spang ……………………………. Ruth Neufer ………………………….. Fred Roach ……………………………. Elmer Neufcr.. ………………………. Art Ncwhacker …………………….. 855 778 761 742 714 678 645 785 BOSTON CLUB Freel Pigeon writes that he has t\, new boats of the ”A” class that shr1•. promise of being taken by him to En. land as U. S. A. challangers. Fred ‘ anxiousely awaiting the time when th. ice melts off the pool so the trials c:i: begin. CHICAGO CLUB Following the encouraging trend of most clubs, Chicago has elcctecl into its most important flag offices young blood and looks forward to a areat year in both increased membership and sailing activities. Dr. Leonard Peal is the new Com, modore, with Hugh Malloy as Vic. George Macey takes the post of RearCommodore. John Clark becomes Tre:v surer, with Robert Schreiner of 4031 No. Mason Ave, Chicago, as Secretary. SPECIAL “X” INVITATION RACE SCORES S~ipper Kelman F. W. Guinn Bob Ballantyn~ Denkerwitz A. Brown W. Hopkins Lee Harriman L. Sythoff W. Bush Trenchlinger Ed. Willis Club Points Empire M. P. M. P. R. I. M. P. D.H. L. I. L. I. L. I. M. P. C. P. M. P. 25 24 24 22 22 21 20 14 14 10 9 7 Prizes were presented to the five high, est point getters. These were supplied by Fred Gwinn, Les Sythoff and Ains Ballantyne. The “ladies” served clam chowder and pumpkin pie and as a special feature presented “uncle” Ains with a handsome leather brief case and a birthday cake. Photo by Leroy Hammond MAD BOB, the X Class flagship of Commodore Bill Moyes of the S. F. M. Y. C. designed by Don Lyon and built by the Commodore, she is a consistent performer in all X Class events, notably fast to windward and a formidable con, tender on the run as well; in short, a well-balanced and well-built X Class yacht. MAD BOB’S dimensions are as follows: L. 0. A. 67″, L. W. L. 49″, Beam 11½”, Draft 11″, Sail Area 1000 sq.”, Displacements 24 lbs., Lead 18 lbs. Conventional fin and skeg underbody. >>>>>>>>>>>>> SUBSCRIPTION BLANK ON BACK COVER 10 ~ THE “HELEN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA J.” Cont. from Page 2 Club member Bill Penney recently departed for the Salinas country where they have no facilities for model yacht ing; he sold his X Class boat No. 47 to F. W. MacKay. B. F. Schmidt is building a new •di…:rhelped to increase or decrease _: 11crship. So let us not blame the 111 ,-\ ‘~’ \\’ith the introduction of the “M,” ·nihership in model yachting took on ·,,r..::at surge, as it was easily trans. ,i;…:cl,easily constructed and above all ,1Ll of complicated ratings Things • , 11t on fine for a while until “experts” 1 ·,!.!,tn asserting their superiority, and ·:itL·rpretingthe rules to their advantage. R.:sult–clubs broke up into numerous . 111 a!ler groups in protest. Som~ sur11vcd, but the majority fell by the way_1Jc because they too, in time, developed their own “experts,” and the rank and :ilcgave up in disgust. ….X.”, Member Curry is now advanced to the final stage of rigging his new X Class boat which was mentioned in these columns a short time ago and the launching of this craft is expected to take place shortly. Your correspondent’s new X Class boat was received from the builder, Virgil Gustavino too late for participation in the events of the 194 7 season. This boat is about 69″ LOA, ’51 on the W.L., 13″ beam and 12″ draft, isolated skeg and seal flipper fin; designer Don Lyon. The boat shows moderate displacement and deadrise, easy entrance and a clean run. aft and represents a happy combination of its owner’s preferences and the well-known skill of its designer and Gus has hopes that it will be heard from during the season of Today model yachting is not a sport its pure sense, but a craft. You ,icher must be a super-mechanic in ,rnods-careless with your hard earned (ash, or you haven’t a chance of ever l ringing home the bacon. In major y;ichting you are not forced to build rour boat, you buy it and learn to sail it. That’s fun. If you fail to master the fine points of the game and lose nften, you KNOW that it wasn’t the hoat (the others were exactly like yours) it was your lack of navigation knowledge and, that you CAN learn. 111 1948. Measurer Milt Haxton has sawed out a chunk of the fin of his No. 5 at its after end making it now somwhat on the order of the seal flipper type. He finds the boat is now a bit quicker in stays and she does not appear to have lost any speed by the operation. Member Leroy Hammond has an impulse to do something of the same kind with No. 17, which is a sister boat to No. 5. The one-design therefore seems to be the greater part of the solution to our rroblem of stagnation. Same hull, same ~ail design, same running rig, same disrlacement and same opportunity to win. Sights at Spreckels Lake: A returned Naval officer has just brought into the clubhouse a model of a five foot 3.-masted schooner which he built out in Kwajalein or Guam or somewhere in the Pacific in his spare time. This is more of an exhibition type craft with forecastle and poop ladders, celluloid hatch covers and figures representing the crew at stations about the ship, IN MEMORIAM We regret to have to announce the Jeath of Guy Farr, one of the enthusiastic associate members of the Rhode Island Club, and father-in-law of our National Secretary, Howard I. one man in the crow’s nest with a spy Angell. glass, a carved figure head and everything. It has only about 4 inches beam 11 and a lead keel and no rudder;. if and how it will sail I couldn’t tell you. Another enthusiast recently appeared with a barkentine rigged craft about 5½ feet long with a V bottom and a deck plan of the shape of a guitar with its wide end forward. This boat promptly capsized on its initial tryout; the owner said he had 6 lbs. of lead on its keel and he intended to increase this to 30 lbs. Later the boat reappeared with the added ballast and a huge Marconi rig with what appears to be a 9 foot mast , maybe 8!/2feet. With all this. it travels very sluggishly and makes leeway like a crab. Another of these No Design boats, about 40″ long, comes out with a mainsail which shows the ultimate of roach, a broad _curve adding almost as much area as the sail itself; practically a schooner without its main mast. So you see, we get all kinds around these parts, and it should be understood that the Model Yachting Center in San Francisco is a municipal institution available to all citizens for the storage of model boats of all kinds, as well as being the head, quarters of the S. F. M. Y. C. Thus, som~ have to l~ar_n the hard way. Which, after all, is better than not learning at al1. Though our sailing season is definitely ov~r for 1947 and the Westerly Trade Wmds have ceased until next March still in California the regulars of th~ Old Guard get out to the Lake as usual on pleasant days, and we may beat down the lake and run back with Easterly s~ants, the_ reverse of our Summer prac, t1ce: occasional Northers provide a reach in both directions; this keeps us on our toes trimming sheets to take advantaae of all the variations of wind conditio;s plus the ~ddies and alleys caused by th~ surroundmg trees, which latter are a oroblem in themselves. We tried to have the Park Commission have some of the~e. trees removed this year, but our pet1t10n fell on deaf ears; seems we will have to make the best of conditions as thev exist at pr~sent. e en joyed the article by C. H. Far, ley m the last issue; we hope the Old \\:7 Maestro will give us all the benefit of his sage counsels at more frequent in. tervals. It would be of interest to lear if a boat was built from his last publish~ design Exsquire and how this design turned out. This seems to wind up about all IJ.·, have from California at this time. Until next month Cheerio and good sailing -G. C. Gallagher • Note-Farley’s Xsquire was in second place at the end of the first day’s racing for the East. Div. Championship with Ballantyne a few points ahead. Charlie contracted a cold and did not race the next day. As this was her first race she showed fine qualities. Editor. IT HAPPENED AT SPRECKELS LAKEClub member sailing his X Class boat up and down the Lake spies a couple of good looking ladies watchin,g his boat perform, so he _accosts them thusly: “Don’t you think it is silly for a man to spend his time sailing these small boats when he might be better employed en, joying the company of nice ladies like yourself?” And one of the girls re, plied: “Mister, you had better stick to your small boat.” Otherwise: _____ ___.MO&’ln TACNTIN _____ _ WHO WANTS TO KNOW Editor:! have read in Model Yachting a number of interesting articles by a Otto B. Upyonda. I have never heard of him -in any club and know that he hasn’t any boat registered. I do not favor people who hid under a “nom d’ plume” and belive that if this be the case. we should know who he is. W. F. P. Editor:! have read article on “Sail Designs” by Otto B. Upyonda and believe that is where he should be . Who is this fellow who says we don’t measure sails correct· ly? Is that his right name? G. B. Editor:- Please straighten us out. A contra· versy has broken loose at the club as to who is Otto B. Upyonda. Some claim 12. 1 1 ADVERTISING RATES ., “•