Sails by Walter K. Moss
The sailing qualities, speed, and control of your model are dependent on good sails.
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Simplified Model Yacht for Racing in the “50-800” Class
This article describes, and provides plans for, a 50-in hard chine hull that can be built with plywood.
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.
The Marblehead 50/800 Class
Model yachting has been growing in this country slowly but surely for a good many years, but since the introduction of the Marblehead 50/800 Class it has gone ahead by leaps and bounds.
The First Radio-Controlled Model Sailing Yacht
On the 10th of September 1934, the Boston Traveler printed this picture (Fig. 1) under the headline “Radio Controlled Boat Operated by Pressing Button in Box Ashore” The story began:
It was no less than sheer wizardry.
On the Rigging and Sailing of Model Windjammers
This reprints a series of articles on the design, construction, and sailing of model square-rigged ships. The articles appeared in the British journal The Model Yachtsman and Marine Model magazine from November 1932 to April 1933.
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.