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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.

In the up-side-down way the builder has to get a plank to build his boat on. Now, to build a boat the size of this schooner he would require a plank about 5 ft. long by about 12 ins. wide to set up his moulds on.

Materials: For the stem, keel and general framework, birch is as good as any timber. The knees and fittings are best made from holly or some fruit tree, such as apple or pear, the knees being naturally grown. For the ribs either Canadian cheese tubs, which can be bought at any grocer’s for a few pence, or hazel rods split down and planed to thickness, are as good as anything.

After the masts and yards are finished, the
masts can be stepped and the yards rigged.

For purposes of inter-club racing it has now become an essential feature for clubs to employ the above rule. A yacht competing under this rule must be measured by the process shown here.

Model yachting, like all other sports and pastimes, has been infused with the spirit of the age. Both in the building and sailing of model yachts, skill and science have raised this pastime from what formerly used to be considered as one most suitable for juveniles to what is now acknowledged to be one of the most clever branches of model-‘making, requiring to be followed with knowledge of nautical matters, some acquaintance with mechanics, the laws of motion, opposing forces—as wind and water resistance, an important part in yacht designing.

Now, when a boat is hard pressed, the heeling of the boat, combined with the "twist" of the sail, results in the sailcloth being more horizontal than vertical: and then the pressure on the sail is more downward than sideways.

A simple plan for building a model yacht of
extreme lightness, I think, will be of use to
any readers of these pages. a style of
boat is not untried, for my own boat, Shark built from these lines last year.