The Model Craftsman: Volume 6, Issue 4 – September 1937
A balanced boat is one which will hold its course and also attain a good speed with the sails closely sheeted, when beating into, and about 4 points off the wind.
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The Model Craftsman: Volume 6, Issue 3 – August 1937
By 1936, the sport had reached such a high level of organization that John Black traveled to the Berlin Olympics as a "Foreign Diplomat." The Goal: To have model yacht racing officially adopted into the Olympic Games. Outcome: Germany constructed a special floating basin for the event, and the article optimistically predicts that model yachting would join the Olympics for the first time in 1940.
The Model Craftsman: Volume 6, Issue 2 – July 1937
The most active season in the history of American Model Yachting is now in full sway.
The Model Craftsman: Volume 5, Issue 12 – May 1937
But there are birds out... I know because a little bird whispered to me where the Marblehead Perpetual Cup came from... it was one of those “ssshh”’ mysteries for
years ... Now the little bird whispers that Roy Clough, Honorary President of the Eastern Division, leaned his head against that of Carrol W. Sweet and Freddy Woods
and after sly murmurs and secretive grins... presto... out comes that lean tall ‘““mug” from which I have enjoyed a long swallow of “suds” when Gordon Curry of the Mill Pond MYC won it 2 years ago...
