Another writes that I should render reports like court records—seventy five write they enjoy the fun. Majority rules skippers—and anyway, I couldn’t be serious long enough to dot “I.” Life is too sad for the saddists.
Me—I prefer to laugh, even at my own pests—so if I step on your toes, well, it’s all in fun.
A great many people are very interested in watching model yacht races and would love to possess a model and take part in this fascinating sport, but the thought of
building a model seems to scare them;
they imagine it is far beyond their constructive powers.
And still skippers continue to fall overboard! At the Deeper Hudson M.Y.C. picnic-race on June 5th, two members went “in the drink.”
Get a yachting picture, for the July cover,” said the editor. Well, this model yachting business was something new to me. It was a hobby I had never become well acquainted with, but one that I have always
wanted to learn about. Knowing that two clubs sail on Clove Lake in nearby Staten Island every Saturday, I decided that Staten Island was the place to go.
The spectators gasped when the model boats of the Washington M. Y. C. were baptized in a wind that averaged thirty miles an hour.
