Balance
Most sailors know that a boat must “balance right” to sail correctly and efficiently, but what, exactly, does that mean?
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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.
How to Make a Boom Vang
This article describes how to make a boom vang with a turnbuckle. It can be whatever length is needed to fit your boat and have either a brass or aluminum finish.
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.
Make a Mold for Bending Wood: Part 2 of 4
Use a form to shape your complex curves.
Speaking of Batteries
An overview of the batteries you can use in your R/C boat.
“Until You Get it Right”, Part The Third
In Which We Apply the Lessons Learned