
2024 Schooners – US Vintage Model Yacht Group National Championship Regatta
A video highlighting the magnificent Schooners yachts from the 2024 US Vintage Model Yacht Group national championship regatta.

A video highlighting the magnificent Schooners yachts from the 2024 US Vintage Model Yacht Group national championship regatta.

A New Vintage 36 Based on a Marblehead 450.
Naval Architecture for Small Boats and Model Yacht Builders: Lesson 1 & 2.
Make A Pondside Boat Stand.
Friendship Rigged Nottingham: The Deck .
Cecil Adams: The Grand Old Man of Model Yachting.
In Pursuit of “Good Enough”: Building A Vintage Marblehead During Nights and Naptimes.

This 30 minute presentation provides a brief history of model yachting while describing the four construction methods for tradition wooden model yachts. It includes 7 examples of various vintage model yachts.

Overview of the US VMYG Website.
Fiona.
A Display Boat?
A Skiff Sailed Boat.
Friendship-Rigged Nottingham: Below Deck.
Yachting in London.

Here are pictures and some video of my experience at The Wooden Boat School in Brooklin ME. The class was Pond Yacht Restoration taught by John Stoudt in the summer of 2022.

A New US VMYG Class: The Vintage 10-Rater.
2023 US VMYG National Championship Regatta Report.
Modeling the Chesapeake Bugeye Brown Smith Jones.
A Chesapeake Skipjack Stole My Heart,
Modeling L Francis Hereshoff’s Design No. 53: Ben My Chree (the Stuart Knockabout).
It’s a 10-Rater!
Remnant’s Restoration (It seemed like a good idea at the time…)
Sailing a Malay Jong: Not as Simple As One Might Think.

Highlights from the regatta with thank you to all the volunteers and participants.

Sunday was clear and windy for 20 Marbleheads to compete across the three sub-classes.
