The Model Yacht: Volume 4, Number 1 – Spring 2000

Six Foot Schooners.
Model Yacht Outreach.
Never Trust a Blueprint.
The Ancient Mariner Speaks.
The Model Sailing Yachts of Franklin Bassford.

Six Foot Schooners.
Model Yacht Outreach.
Never Trust a Blueprint.
The Ancient Mariner Speaks.
The Model Sailing Yachts of Franklin Bassford.

This report discusses more suggested changes to the rule including the use of modern materials and fiberglass hulls. It reviews and discusses nine proposed changes and gives their approval status.

Thoughts on Guidelines for Schooner Static Judging.
Book Review: An Introduction to Radio Controlled Scale Sailing Model (Phillip Vaughn Williams).
Vintage Marblehead (VM) Coordinator’s Report. Proposed rule changes.
Book Review: A Bibliography of Model Yachting (Russell Potts).
A Marblehead Model Sailing Yacht.

Infidel.
A Cluster of sixties Smeed Starlets.
Martin Folds of Dunedin.
Popping a Bit of Vintage on the Pond.
The Lovely Lady Annette.
Of Bill Bithell and Ranger.
An America in Aucklund.
Sailing Barges of the Thames.

The wave theory described here was attractive to Victorian naval architects because it was fundamentally geometric and could be implemented using the drafting instruments of the time.

This is a short report inviting members to submit rule change proposals.

Nathanael Herreshoff‘s Vane Gears.
San Francisco Invitational Regatta Results.
US VMYG National Regatta Report.
Vintage Marblehead Coordinator’s Report.
Pond Yacht Building Course.
Excerpts from Thomas Moore’s Build a Winning Model Yacht.
Curve of Areas, Versed Sines, Trochoids, and the Wave Theory.

A Stunning Schooner.
Tom Thumb(ers) for the Lillipution Sized Minded.
French Armed Lugger Le Spectre.
One of Two Sisters, the Emily Barret.
Moore’s Mighty Mullety.
Seamaid – A Pretty Little Gaffer From OZ.

A Solo Obsession.
On Winds Over Britain.
A Family of Kiwi Fellas.
Huia – A Schooner Remembered.
Barry’s Tea Clipper.
A Canadian Reader’s Alden Malabar II.
Syd and the Yachts of Beresford.
San Francisco Model Yacht Club.
Just a Plain Old Working Girl.