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The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: 1920

Herreshoff, in his usual way, eviscerated the rule and took those elements and those only that counted. A canoe body to run over the water—the exact amount of lateral resistance needed for the S.A. in
the form of a metal fin—the lead disposed in the most effective form at the lowest point in the forms of a torpedo halved and bolted on the bottom of the fin. Such was the Wee Win.

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The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: 1915

The hull of a yacht is represented by three sets of lines, which are known as the cross-section or body plan, water line plan, and buttock line elevation. Any line that is a curve in one plan is always a straight line in the other two.
If the intersection of these lines coincide in all these drawings the shape of the hull must of necessity be fair in curvature, 7.¢., free from bumps, always, of course, providing the curves in the plans are not
unfair.

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The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: 1914

Messrs. Bassett-Lowke Ltd., Northampton, just placed upon the market a complete set of finished fittings suitable for the highest class model racing yacht. The set comprises: Automatic sheet tiller with rapid tensioning device; improved pattern
gooseneck and boom socket; Archer pattern gaff jaw; spinnaker boom socket set; sheave blocks; special main sheet adjuster; set of single and double anti-fold shroud plates, with hooks and special safety sheet hooks; set of six sheave blocks.

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