Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

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.

Windling World: December 2003

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.