The Model Yacht: Volume 8, Number 1 – Summer 2004

The Keel Catboat Dodge.
Model Yachts: How to Design and Build Them.

The Keel Catboat Dodge.
Model Yachts: How to Design and Build Them.

This is the earliest comprehensive treatment of model yachting that we have encountered. It comes from the English journal Amateur Work, a Victorian periodical with articles on arts, crafts, and some truly frightening electric devices. The article is interesting, and typical for its age, in the way it combines rules of thumb with engineering calculation.

Where There’s a Will There’s a Way.
Different as Chalk and Cheese.
A Canadian Schooner.
About as Nearest to an Affordable Sex Object You’ll Get. T
From the Days of Tales of Hornblower, to the Creation of One-Off Works of Art.
A Starlet Occasion.

2004 Museum of Model Yachting Activities.
Yankee III Update.
R/C Vintage Marblehead (VM) Ratings Rules.
Simple Model Yacht Theory.
Snipe Junior.
Modified “R” Class plan that meets VM class rule

Jaunty A Sharp Looking Sharpie.
Seven Measures of Witchcraft.
Downunda and Under the Queensland Sun.
Builders of Britain’s Fastest Model Yachts.
Pride of Monterey. Roy Lake’s four-masted schooner.
Skipjacks.
Of Windling and Non Windling Readers, Wives, and Friends.

Twenty Vintage Marbleheads Launched.
Early DX Class History and Sailboat Innovations.
2003 Vintage Marblehead Regatta Report.
The New Vintage 36 Class.
Another Small Class: The MM 25-inch vane sailor.

Andrew Boyd and his Arija Boats.
The Mascotte-hulled Pilot Cutter Brendawyn.
The Model Yachts Made by Timothy M Sullivan.
Alma’s Story.
Proving there was Magic in 1870.
Half a Century of Sailing.

2003 US-UK Challenge Cup.
The Davison Trip Tracking Gear.
Skylark.
Line Drawings for 24-in Sharpie.
2003 National Regatta Report.
Steve Crewes Does It Again.
A Developed – Surface Sailing Model.

Out Near Maroochydore.
Fair Or Foul Footy Winds?
Firecracker.
A Wonderful, Windy, Well Attended Vintage Model Sailboat Regatta.
The Sir John Martin Sails.
The South Carolina Man.