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Marine Models: Volume 10, Number 6 – September 1937

Editorial
METAL MASTS AND SAIL ATTACHMENT By A. C. DAVISON
The Engineroom By J Vines
THE INTERNATIONAL MARBLE-HEAD 50-800 CLASS
THE WRECK OF THE BARGE “DORCAS”
A WORKING MODEL of the T.S.S. “AWATEA” By H. B. TUCKER
EXHIBITION MODELS By AN EXHIBITOR
PETROL ENGINE & HYDROPLANE TOPICS By KENNETH G. WILLIAMS
PRACTICAL WOODEN SHIPBUILDING FOR MODEL MAKERS By G. W. MuNRO
A MODEL OF A CELEBRATED SINGLE-HANDER
WEATHER LORE By ARTHUR JOHNSTON
THE SCOTTISH 6-METRES CHAMPIONSHIP CUP
PUTTING AN EYE IN A WIRE SHROUD
News of the Little Ships
Our Scottish Page
AMERICAN NEWS By C. O. BROOK (Hon. Secretary, Eastern Division of M.Y.R.A.A.)
CANADIAN M.Y.R.A.

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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.

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Marine Models: Volume 10, Number 4 – July 1937

Editorial
Measuring the 36-in. Restricted Class
General Hints for Beginners in Model Yachting
Ships’ Armaments
Televizing Model Yachting
Notes on a Model Destroyer
Petrol Engine and Hydroplane Topics
A Leith–London Smack (174 Tons)
How to Make a Hollow Mast
The M.P.B.A. International Regatta
National 10-Rater Championship
Saltcoats Coronation Regatta
American News
Model Yachts at the Crystal Palace
The Weight of Wind

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