No matter how good your model racing yacht, it cannot do its best without properly made sails. Here we tell you how to select the proper material, how to cut, hem and reinforce the sails for the popular 50-800 Class model yacht.
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.
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 most active season in the history of American Model Yachting is now in full sway.
