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This is the 9.5 foot LOA radio control Cicely. . She’ll be in Bristol Rhode Island on display and performing sailing demos daily at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Aug 7-9.
This (image) is the radio-controlled 8-foot LOA sailing model of Starling Burgess’ famous 1902 Elizabeth Silsbee schooner. This beauty was built by master “working model” builder Andrew Charters from South Carolina and she will be there too.
It is all part of the American Model Yachting Association J Class Region 1 Championship to be held August 7-9. These and other R/C sailing models will complement the eight-foot long, 1/16 scale replicas of the 1930s America’s Cup J Boats with their ten-foot tall sail rigs, such as Ranger, Endeavour, Shamrock V and Whirlwind. The event is expected to draw model racing enthusiasts from across the country.
J Class model image
The Herreshoff Marine Museum will kick it off Aug 6th with the launch of their 2009 Lecture Series with “Little Boats and Big Boats: A Hundred Years of Model and Full-Scale Yachting”, to be presented at 7:00 PM on Thursday August 6 at the Museum.
The lecture will be presented by Earl Boebert, the historian and newsletter editor for the U.S. Vintage Model Yacht Group, an organization dedicated to the study and preservation of model yachting art and science as it was practices in the days before radio control. Mr. Boebert is a retired Senior Scientist of Sandia National Labs.
Mr. Boebert’s lecture will cover the history of model yachting from 1850 to 1950, with an emphasis on the intersection of model yachting and full-scale yacht design. A main theme will be the evolution of model yacht hull design intertwined with the evolution of rating rules, emphasizing attempts to influence full-scale yacht rules by the introduction of the International A Class. Mr. Boebert will also cover newly researched details of the model yachting work of Nathanael G. Herreshoff as well as that of other practitioners including Norman Skene and L. Francis Herreshoff.
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A class model. This is a rare one. Thanks for displaying this.
Comment by RC sail Boat — August 10, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
Nice post about model sailing.A+ to this post. thanks for the posting.
Comment by model sailing — August 11, 2009 @ 12:46 am