Planning and Building Scale Models that Sail. Part 3: Building
In Part 3 of this series, we apply the calculations from the first two articles to build the model.
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Planning and Building Scale Models that Sail. Part 2: Design Calculations
In part 2 of the series, we undertake some more detailed and a bit more extensive calculations to try to get the boat right as built, requiring minimum modifications and fixes after the fact.
Planning and Building Scale Models that Sail. Part 1: Implications of Scale and Model Choices
This is the first of a three-part series that helps you understand how sail area and displacement have to be accounted for when shrinking full size boat plans to make a sailing model.
Taking the Lines off of Scat II, a Previously Unknown Design by John Black
When Dave brought the existence of this boat to my attention in a series of emails I knew that she was so important that her lines had to be in the historical record.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Here we present two boats by the same designer, done just a year apart.
Curve of Areas, Versed Sines, Trochoids, and the Wave Theory
The wave theory described here was attractive to Victorian naval architects because it was fundamentally geometric and could be implemented using the drafting instruments of the time.
Traditional Model Yacht Design
Moore was a naval architect and this work captures the state of model yacht design in the 1920s.
Is the Ideal Rating Rule Possible?
Years ago when there were no rating rules or restrictions, and handicaps were unknown, yacht racing resolved itself mainly into a matter of size, and the largest yachts generally won.