A free internet resource for the understanding, sharing and promotion
of  classic and vintage model yachting interests and activities.

We invite your comments and contributions, so we can better
serve the needs of the classic and vintage model yachting community.

(Please forgive the temporary unorganized aspect of some of these pages as I continue to adapt the site to Front Page© 2003 and Windows Vista©)

Don Kihlstrom
bogwaterjim@hotmail.com

Contents:
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Model Yachting History
Portrait of a Model Yachtsman...Harold Kethman
America's "New Deal" and Model Yachting
Portrait of a Model Yachtsman...A.R."Gus" Lassel

Andrew Cook's Balmain Bug,
A Photo Essay from Melbourne, Australia

The Doldrums
by Frank Nisbett, SFMYC

Model Yachtsman's Workbench
Post your vintage project here!

Messing Around with Toy Boats
"Amateur Night at the Ritz"

Contact us...Tell your story!
bogwaterjim@hotmail.com

This month....

Andrew Cook's
Balmain Bug...
The "Maiden Voyage"

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The Doldrums
by Frank Nisbett, SFMYC

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Jimmy Foxx finds a dead spot at Spreckels Lake
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept.,Ca. 1947

It Runs (and beats) in the Family!

Left: Dennis Lippett at Fleetwood, UK in the 60's
Right: Lippett's Son-in-law, Graham Reeves, with his "M" Wendy J at Fleetwood in 1971

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Photo courtesy of Graham Reeves

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Photo by Vic Smeed, in Model Boats, May 1971