Yachting: Volume 26, Issue 4 – October 1919
Model Yachts As Is Model Yachts.
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The San Francisco Model Yacht Clyb is 22 years old and has a membership of
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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.
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.
The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician: 1913
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.