Are you interested in model sailboat building and model sailing? This book provides a brief overview and makes it easier to get started. Established manufacturers offer remote-controlled model sailboats as kits. With a little skill, even a complete beginner can build a model sailing yacht that is ready to sail. You don't need a large workshop for this, a few hand tools from everyday life and a table are already enough. Benefit from the author's more than 40 years of model-building experience! From the content: • Which model do I want to build? • "Micro Magic" from Graupner • "Sea Cret" from T2M • "Estelle" from robbe • Building time • Sailing experience • RC equipment • Tools and aids • Hand tools • Measuring tools • Machines • Measuring tools • Adhesives • Small sailing practice for newcomers • The different sailing courses to the wind • The most important sailing terms • The maiden voyage • First sail trim

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to building, rigging, and cruising model sailing yachts. Written in clear, simple language and full of helpful illustrations and detailed diagrams, this book is ideal for the novice model builder, and will be of considerable utility to those with a practical interest in building model boats. The chapters of this book include: “The Rating of Model Yachts”, “Building a 36 In. Model Yacht by the Carved hull Method”, “Building a Model Rater”, “The Construction of “built-up” or Planked Yachts”, “Spars and Fittings”, “Steering Gears”, “Racing Schooners”, etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned introduction on model building.

Tells how to select a kit and set up a model making workplace, demonstrates the techniques for building the hull, masts, and rigging, and shows how to add the finishing touches.

You will enjoy these wonderful and whimsical instructions on the best model boats in the world! Read this manual for more about every model boat you will need! Contents: Why a Boat Floats, The Hull, How to Make Simple Boats, With and Without Power Drive, cont...

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. Many of the models are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. Now available in paperback, this book tells the story of the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. It includes a large number of model photos all in full-color as well as close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, The Sailing Frigate weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modelers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will be attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.

Three traditional Down East boats are featured: a Banks dory, a Friendship Dory, and a Friendship dory skiff. All are based on authentic boats and built with the same care as a full-size boat.