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The Model Craftsman: Volume 5, Issue 2 – July 1936

We recently paid a very pleasant visit to the Staten Island Model Yacht Club. The Club uses a lake called ““Wolf’s Pond” which is fed by springs at one end and discharges into the sea at the other. The remarkable feature of this lake is that it is not more than 300 feet from the sea, being only separated from the salt water by a low ridge, over which the waves of Princess
Bay are plainly visible.

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The Model Craftsman: Volume 4, Issue 12 – May 1936

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. Never since model yachts have been sailed has a class met with such instant favor and popularity as this class.
has. Originated in the Marble-
head Model -Yacht Club it is now

built and .raced in nearly every
club in the country,

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