No matter how good your model racing yacht, it cannot do its best without properly made sails. Here we tell you how to select the proper material, how to cut, hem and reinforce the sails for the popular 50-800 Class model yacht.
A balanced boat is one which will hold its course and also attain a good speed with the sails closely sheeted, when beating into, and about 4 points off the wind.
By 1936, the sport had reached such a high level of organization that John Black traveled to the Berlin Olympics as a "Foreign Diplomat." The Goal: To have model yacht racing officially adopted into the Olympic Games. Outcome: Germany constructed a special floating basin for the event, and the article optimistically predicts that model yachting would join the Olympics for the first time in 1940.
The most active season in the history of American Model Yachting is now in full sway.
But there are birds out... I know because a little bird whispered to me where the Marblehead Perpetual Cup came from... it was one of those “ssshh”’ mysteries for
years ... Now the little bird whispers that Roy Clough, Honorary President of the Eastern Division, leaned his head against that of Carrol W. Sweet and Freddy Woods
and after sly murmurs and secretive grins... presto... out comes that lean tall ‘““mug” from which I have enjoyed a long swallow of “suds” when Gordon Curry of the Mill Pond MYC won it 2 years ago...
Only one type of man could be fittingly placed in charge of such a shop. One who combined the skill of a professional woodworker with the knowledge and enthusiasm of a practical model yachtsman, Fortunately the right man was available in the person of Archie Arroll of the Cadillac Model Yacht Club.
Yes, yes; of course we men had
ONE edge on them at least; no woman would ever build a model yacht, much less sail one; no sirree; we had ’em “buffaloed” at last —but had we? Wasn’t that a “female lady” over there sailing a boat? Sure it was. But something must be wrong; yes, something was wrong—with us.
There can be no alibis for the losers. Every skipper sailed a good race... there was no walk-away for Mr. Anderson. He had to sail,
and sail every foot of the course.
Most astounding in the history
of the sport.
Not being a professional scribe, the reader is asked not to mistake this report as over-enthusiasm of a correspondent, but to believe that it is an unbiased sketch of what has been acclaimed unanimously as
the greatest Regatta ever witnessed in Model Yachting.
