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Sail Plans: Dimensioned and Balanced for the Marblehead Class Model Racing Yacht
Here in Wisconsin, where skippers frequently encounter high wind velocities during the course of our model yacht racing season, it is almost essential that our craft be equipped with first, second, and even third suits of sails, while the hulls themselves remain of such a design as to be driven easily on those days when the winds are light. This situation compels may of us to make more than a casual study of our sail requirements.
Sails by Walter K. Moss
The sailing qualities, speed, and control of your model are dependent on good sails.
X Class (1000-in2 Sail Area Class) Rating Rule: MYRAA – 1939
X Class (American 1,000 Square-Inch Sai] Area Class) RATING RULES
Adopted Dec. 1939 by the M.Y.R.A.A.
A Marblehead Model Sailing Yacht by Claude W. Horst – 1939
Claude William Horst was an extracurricular boatbuilding instructor with the Milwaukee Vocational School. This book describes building and sailing a freesailed Marblehead with the lift method.
MYRAA 1938 Year Book: Fixture List and Directory of Clubs
This yearbook includes leadership and goals of the MYRAA, a list of clubs, and essays on model yachting by John Black, Fred Pigeon, and E.L. Cheney.
The Marblehead 50/800 Class
Model yachting has been growing in this country slowly but surely for a good many years, but since the introduction of the Marblehead 50/800 Class it has gone ahead by leaps and bounds.