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Learning to Sail
Sailboat Building
Sail Making
Sail Rigs
Sailing Rules
Sailing Tips
Electronics
Weather
Fast Electric
Miscellaneous
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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
A link to - Yacht Design
Helpful Building Hints
Bulb Shapes
Keel Bulb Shape
Tip Vortex
Keel Fins by Terry Seabrook
Fiberglass Mixing Cup
Fabrics and Resins
Rudder Design
Removing Mastheads Cranes
Easy Melt
Blind Building Material
Building a Victoria.
Beginning Sailing
New Sailboat
Building a Victoria
Building a Victoria - Part 2
Building a Victoria - Part 3
Building a Victoria - Part 4
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
A Local Sail Winch Provider
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
To Protest or Not
It's All In The Rules
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
Center Of Effort
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
On Opposite Tacks Mark Rounding
Sail Trim
Telling Tales
Electronics:
Every Sailor Needs A Wench
More About Batteries
Battery Check Easy
Batteries
New Batteries
Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries
Weather:
Wind
More Wind Indormation
Turbulent Wind
Prevailing Wind
Ill Wind
The Shocking Facts
Wind Velocity
Fast Electric:
The N-2 Fast Electric Class
Limited Sport Hydro
Fast Electric Speedboats
Miscellaneous:
A link to - Tucson MYC Building/Sailing How To Articles
Radio Stand
Scale Boat Lights
Healthy Sailing
Shipwrecks Galore
Keep Cool By Bob Shedden
Response To Virtue Is Its Own Reward by Dick Lemke
Virtue Is Its Own Reward by Milton Thrasher
Get the Lead Out
The Modeler's Disease
Lessons of Noah
Small Parts Container