
Yachting: Volume 31, Issue 2 – February 1922
What the Model Yachtsmen Are Doing.

What the Model Yachtsmen Are Doing.


What the Model Yachtsmen Are Doing.

What the Model Yachtsmen Are Doing.

No doubt if one had Mr. Daniels’ experience, and his brains as well, they would be definite instructions rather than hints, and the art of designing a yacht would become the practically pure geometrical exercise he maintains it to be.

What the Model Yachtsmen Are Doing.

Building Your Own Model Yacht.

Every boy likes to build boats. The interest in boats seems to be born in the race. little three-year-old chap is instinctively attracted by a puddle of water in which to sail his "boat," which may take the form of a piece of shingle or common board. Few men have passed through their boyhood days without having built boats at some time.

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.