Vintage Marblehead Coordinator’s Report: Spring 1999

This report discusses three new suggested changes to the VM rule and gives details on sail measurement and "headboards".

This report discusses three new suggested changes to the VM rule and gives details on sail measurement and "headboards".

Vintage M Coordinator Report.
Vintage Northwest.
Daisy: History and development of vane steered cutter.
Old A Boat to Be Sailing Soon.
Sailing Spreckels Lake.
Camelot East Regatta a Great Success.
Book Review. Sunday Sailors. A Beginners Guide to Pond Boats and Model Yachting Until the 1950’s (Don Kihlstrom).
A Few Comments on Jibs.
The Ancient Mariner Answers Your Questions
Speed Rigging (Braine steering)
Vane steered free sail boats

This report discusses the new VM rule based on the 1954 M Class rules. It gives details of the Traditional/High Flyer split around 1945 and discusses the "controversy" over the spade rudders. It also talks about possible changes to the rule and whether there might be meassurement certificates.

Bluenose Schoonering.
Dabbling With The Ducks.
Catherine Bayley.
Owhiti Shingle Scow or Hollywood Tart?
My Philosophy on Windling.

We Attend Christchurch’s 100th.
Vintage Northwest.
Features of an “ideal” Pond Boat.
Magic – Dedicated to All Model Yacht Wives.
This Old Pilot Schooner. by Harry Mote
Vintage Marblehead Coordinators Report.
How Smooth Does Your Bottom Have to Be?
The Ancient Mariner Answers Design Questions
Sailboat Lifter/Launcher.
Book Review. Pond Models – Some Simple Thoughts on Building and Sailing Them (M. de Lesseps).
A Simple Self Tacking Vane.

A Century Old Model Yacht Club.
County of Inverness.
The Godhead of Sailors.
Rebecca – A 1902 Lady of Unknown Virtue.
The Great Schooner Model Society.
Ocean-Crosser.
The Story of the ‘Fiji Magic’ Schooners.

A Birthday Bash: The San Francisco Model Yacht Club Turns 100.
Mill Pond Centennial 1998, Port Washington, Long Island, New York.
Free Sailing.
A Proposal for a New Event.
What Should We Call That?
More on Rudders and Flaps.
The Ancient Mariner Answers Your Questions
Foam Board as an Aid to Construction.
An Old Pilot Schooner.

Book Review – Model Sailing Yachts by W. J. Daniels and H. B. Tucker (1951).
Traditional Sailing Craft/Scale Model Regatta.
More on Rudders and Flaps.
The San Francisco Model Yacht Club – Model Yachting in California.
History of San Francisco Model Yacht Club.
A Profile of Don R. Lyon.
Stop Burning Your Fingers.
Silver Soldering.
Swaged Fittings for Model Yachts.
A Twenty-Five-inch Sailing Sloop

Awatea – A Century Old Yacht That Refuses To Die.
Historic Redd’s Pond at Marblehead in Massachusetts, USA.
My Turn-of-the-century stunner Marigold.
The Robin Balfour – A Pacific Island Trader.
Crew For Scale Boats.
The Tough, Big Sea Brixham Trawlers.