
Building a Skeg and Rudder for a Fiberglass Hull
The challenge in building a skeg and rudder is to get them perfectly aligned with the keel.

The challenge in building a skeg and rudder is to get them perfectly aligned with the keel.

Here we present two boats by the same designer, done just a year apart.

Here in Wisconsin, where skippers frequently encounter high wind velocities during the course of our model yacht racing season, it is almost essential that our craft be equipped with first, second, and even third suits of sails, while the hulls themselves remain of such a design as to be driven easily on those days when the winds are light. This situation compels may of us to make more than a casual study of our sail requirements.

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.