Bending Wood: Part 3 of 4

Assembling your curve-shaped pieces.

Assembling your curve-shaped pieces.

A Tribute: Earl Boebert.
Lighter, Stronger, Faster: The Herreshoff Legacy.
100% Scale Schooner Models?
Planning and Building Scale Model Boats (Part I).
What Class of Boat Is This?
Draw an Ellipse.
Make A Mold for Bending Wood.
The Svea Project.
Storrow Lagoon.
Mystic Seaport Museum – The American Model Yachting Collection.
The Draketail.

This is the first of a three-part series that helps you understand how sail area and displacement have to be accounted for when shrinking full size boat plans to make a sailing model.

Use a form to shape your complex curves.


3rd Annual Bill Full Memorial Regatta Report.
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Evidently, Yes (Central Park Model Yacht Club Vintage Invitational Report).
A Tribute: John Snow.
Vintage Plans Available.
Catamarans Big and Small: Part I – The Early Years.
Speaking of Batteries.
Everything Old Is New Again! Resurrecting Vintage Designs with Digital Age Tools.
Blue Crab Model Yachts.
Bending Wood.
Another Source for Building a Vintage Marblehead.

An overview of the batteries you can use in your R/C boat.

Bend wood into extreme shapes.

In Which We Apply the Lessons Learned