Yachting - Help and Hints

These links will take you to the library of the Model Yachting Resource Center, which has excellent articles and hints on R/C yachting and boating.

All articles were written by Dave Acree for the Mesa Model Yacht Club's Newsletter. If articles from another source are used, the author is noted.

Learning to Sail:

Entry Level Sailboat Kits

Sailboat Building:

 A step by step guide to building a 36/600  Building Tip  Decking
 Drilling Lead Bulbs    Paint Tips For Model Yachts    Paint Masking Tips  
 Pin Striping    Pin Striping Tip    Electric Motor Help
 Radio Antenna Tube    Putting a Water Line on a Boat  Waterline  
 Waterline Cont.    Beautiful Bulbs    Bulb Shape  
 A Bulb Follow Up    Building Rudders and Keels    Rudder Construction  
 Waterlines    Sanding Block Tip  
 Helpful Building Hints  Bulb Shapes  Tip Vortex
 Keel Fins by Terry Seabrook

Sail Making:

Sail Concepts  Sail Camber  Sail Design Basics
Sail Making     More On Sail Making                   Broad Seaming
Sail Making Cont.    Sail Battens  Sails by Milton Thrasher

Sail Rigs:

Jib Boom Counter Weight  Drum Winch Tension  Jib Boom
Radial Jib Fitting  Sail Winch

Sailing Rules:

You and the Rules   Upwind Positioning  Luffing Rights
Room at the Mark   An Oops in the Rules  Port Starts
Over The Start Line Early   Now For Fun By Larry Robinson

Sailing Tips:

Getting Out of Irons   Fine Tuning at the Lake   Twist Adjustments for EC12s
Light Air Sailing   EC12 Tuning   Optimizing the East Coast 12-Meter
The Tuning Cycle by Bob Sterne   Start Wind Shadows   Optimizing the East Coast 12-Meter
The Ten Commandments of Boat Speed   Pre-race Check List   On Opposite Tacks Mark Rounding
Center Of Effort     Self/Individual Effort by Rod Carr   Recommended Sailing Instructions
Early Starters   Main sail Twist   Fleet mark rounding
Wind puffs   Tacking Decisions   Windward Positioning
Seamanlike and Tactical Rounding   Port Tack Mark Roundings   No More Onus When Tacking
Changing Course   Changing Course - Example 1   Mast abeam Reverse
Course Change   Proper Course   Light Air Tactics
 

Electronics:

Every Sailor Needs A Wench   More About Batteries   Battery Check Easy
Batteries   New Batteries   Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries

Miscellaneous:

Radio Stand   Scale Boat Lights   Healthy Sailing
Shipwrecks Galore   Keep Cool By Bob Shedden   Virtue Is Its Own Reward by M. Thrasher
Response To Virtue Is Its Own Reward by D. Lemke

 

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