enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Model yachting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_yachting

   Model yacht clubs have existed for many years in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, most of them holding a number of regattas during each season. The rules do not generally require the owner or skipper of a model to build his own craft, but among model yachtsmen the designing and the construction of the boats constitute as important and interesting a part of the sport as the actual ...

3. Radio-controlled model - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_model

   Radio-controlled boats are model boats controlled remotely with radio control equipment. The main types of RC boat are: scale models (12 inches (30 cm) – 144" (365 cm) in size), the sailing boat and the power boat. The latter is the more popular amongst toy grade models.

4. Radio-controlled boat - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_boat

   A mass-produced radio-controlled yacht In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat (U.S. patent 613,809 —Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles). A radio-controlled boat is a boat or ship model controlled remotely with radio control equipment.

5. Victoria 18 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_18

   The Victoria 18 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Canadian G. William McVay. It was built in the United States 1977 to 1983. [1] [2] [3] Most boats built were sloop rigged, but a few were built as cutters with a bowsprit. A small number were built as the Victoria 17, with a shorter hull and an outboard rudder. [1]

6. Self-steering gear - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-steering_gear

   Even in sailboats running under engine, the self steering gear can be used to keep the boat heading into the wind to easily set or change sails (exception: sheet-to-tiller principle). As wind direction sensors are used a) a wind vane mounted on an axis being tilted more or less towards the horizon (wind vane self-steering)

7. Royal Yacht Club of Victoria - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Yacht_Club_of_Victoria

   By 1856, it had been renamed Victoria Yacht Club, and in that year it held its first regatta. [2] Early members included W.R. Probert and George F. Verdon, who ran a ship chandlery and commission agents business in Sandridge (now Port Melbourne ), Dr. John Wilkins, the Surgeon for the Port of Melbourne , and Captain Charles Ferguson, the ...