Construction Articles
Construction Methods
Hardware/Fittings
Finishing
Radio & Electronics
Repairs & Restoration
Tools
Construction Articles in The Model Yacht
Construction Methods
- Vintage Construction Methods
- Building a Skeg and Rudder for a Fiberglass Hull by Ivor Walton
- Making a Deck Beam Pattern
- Bending Wood – Series by John Stoudt
- “Until You Get it Right” by Earl Boebert
Construction of a Plank on Sawn Frame Marblehead Class Model Racing Yacht to Ted Houk’s 1949 Rip Tide Design - Adventures in Cold Molding – Two-part series by Earl Boebert
- The Fisher Drawings
A handout from the A.J. Fisher company that illustrates the use and placement of their fittings on a Detroit School Boat. It also includes drawings showing the layout of lifts used to carve a hull.
Finishing
- Basic Model Yacht Finishing/Refinishing by Walt Shuggs
- It Aint Pretty, but it Is Effective by TMY Staff
Creating a paint booth using a drop cloth.
Hardware/Fittings
- Tools and Materials for Making Metal Fittings by TMY Staff
- Tee-shaped Brass for Various Fittings by TMY Staff
- How to Make a Boom Vang by Ivor Walton
- Gooseneck Attachment Bracket by TMY Staff
- Turnbuckles and Bottlescrews by Jack Mc Kie and Vic Smeed
- Turnbuckles by TMY Staff
- Making a Spreader by TMY Staff
- Fairleads by TMY Staff
- Constructing a Sail Control Arm by TMY Staff
- Addressing Sail Arm Friction by Steve LeBranz
- Rudder Connecting Rod by TMY Staff
- The Fisher Drawings
A handout from the A.J. Fisher company that illustrates the use and placement of their fittings on a Detroit School Boat. It also includes drawings showing the layout of lifts used to carve a hull.
Radio & Electronics
- Setting Up Swing-Arm Sail Controls by John Henderson
Repairs & Restoration
- Model Yacht Restoration Decision Making by Rod Carr
- Restoration of an Early A Boat by John Stoudt
- How to Repair a Split Plank by Mike Stobbe
- Boat Repairs: Rub Rail by John Stoudt
Sails
- Sail Making – Several articles on sail making.
Tools
- Make Shavings not Sawdust by Earl Boebert
This article describes planes useful in model building: how to select them, find them, restore them, and use them.
Construction Articles in The Model Yacht
Here is a list of construction articles we have published or republished in The Model Yacht. Each of these articles includes plans and a more or less complete set of instructions—keeping in mind that in the past, authors assumed their readers had some shop experience.
The issue numbers are Volume and Number, so V1N1 means Volume One, Number One; this is how we keep track. Back issues are available from the Store Publications page.
- V1N1: Zip, a Marblehead by George Baron (1934)
- V1N3: Starlet, a Vintage 36 sharpie by John Black (1942)
- V2N1: A 25-in sloop by Claude Horst (1933)
- V3N3: A Marblehead by Claude Horst (1939)
- V6N1: A 12-in catboat by E. Armitage McCann (1926)
- V6N3: A 40-in schooner (ca. 1940)
- V7N1: A 24-in sharpie by William Crosby (1944)
- V7N2: A 25-in racing sloop by Vic Smeed (The MM Class, 1954)
- V7N3: A 20-in Snipe Jr. by William Crosby (1932)
- V9N2: A Vintage 36, probably by Archie Arroll (ca. 1935)
- V9N3: A 31-in sloop, the Boucher Curlew (1930)
- V10N3: Kiltie, a 6 Meter by John Black (1940)
- V11N3: Festive, a Marblehead by W. J. Daniels (1951)
- V12N1: Black Watch, a Marblehead by John B. Duncan (1938)
- V12N2: Delta Class, a 50-in/600-in2 sharpie by Harold C Kethman (1954)
- V13N1: A simple 24-in schooner (ca. 1930)
- V13N3: How to Build ‘The M. Y.’ Star Jr. (36 in – plans and instructions) W.J. Daniels (1929)
- V14N1: A Marblehead Model Sailing Yacht (plans, drawings, and instructions) Claude Horst (1939)
- V14N3: The Eileen O’Boyle Square Rigger by Douglas J. Boyle (1932–1933)
- V16N1: Blackchin II A Sonder-Inspired V36
- V16N2: Snipe Jr. (plans and instructions for 20-inch Snipe) by William F Crosby (1932)
- V17N1: Black Watch (plans and drawings) by John B. Duncan (1938)