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Currently the majority of model ships owned by Task Force 72 members are military vessels however this is slowly changing as more non-warships are completed. In fact the joint winners of the Wentworth Shield for best model at the 2007 Annual Regatta were two non-warships, the lighthouse and navigation aids tender Cape Don and the USS Charles Robinson, a Liberty Ship.
VNS Verdun takes a shot at USS Nathaniel Greene at the 2007 North American Big Gun Open [1] event. Model warship combat is an international club activity, in which participants construct radio-controlled scale models of actual warships, most commonly those built by various nations prior to 1946, such as the USS Des Moines or the German battleship Bismarck.
Out of radio-controlled model boats sprang up a new hobby—gas-powered model boating. Radio-controlled, gasoline-powered model boats first appeared in 1962 designed by engineer Tom Perzinka of Octura Models. [citation needed] The gas model boats were powered with O&R (Ohlsson and Rice) small 20 cc ignition gasoline utility engines. This was a ...
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.
In 1981 Brett McCormack of New Zealand saw a picture of "Choppa" in "Model Boats" magazine and was inspired to design a 12-inch yacht for a school technical drawing project. Much later, in 1996, he actually built the design as a free-sailing model for his 2-year-old son.
The San Francisco Model Yacht Club (SFMYC) is dedicated to the hobby, arts, and sport of building and racing working model boats of all descriptions. A California-incorporated 501(c)(7) non-profit, social/recreational corporation, it is anchored by the Spreckels Lake Model Yacht Facility in Golden Gate Park , which includes the lake itself and ...
Model boat organizations (2 P) Pages in category "Model boats" ... Radio-controlled boat; Raingutter regatta; S. List of scale-model industry people; Shipwright (annual)
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 ...