The M or Marblehead Class, sometimes called the "50/800", is a medium size high performance development class. It's original concept in the 1930's was to produce the largest model that would conveniently fit in the standard American car of the time.

This is my manual on how to build a classic, wooden, radio-controlled sailboat using purchased laser-cut frames. It's 128 pages, and includes almost 200 images and drawings. The latest version is 1.4 and covers how I made my own cast-lead ballasts.

2024年12月21日 · The M or Marblehead Class, sometimes called the "50/800", is a remote-controlled high performance development class. It's original concept in the 1930's was to produce the largest model that would conveniently fit in the standard American car of the time.

Vintage Marblehead In 1930 Roy Clough, then commodore of the Marblehead Model Yacht Club, proposed a new class of larger model sailboats. The first published reference we have is from Model Yachting for Oct–Nov 1930. These boats must be “50 inches on deck” (50 in LOA).

The Marblehead T50’s super powerful, tall rig (in fact, the rig alone is over seven feet high!) is outfitted with sleek, fast mylar racing sails. A super light-weight carbon fiber and kevlar hull, sophisticated and strong high-performance sail servo, and the high tensile stainless steel single-strand rigging wire also help to increase power ...

Our range of products is focussed on the four international classes (One Metre, Marblehead, Ten Rater, A Class) as well as the growing number of smaller classes. However, the equipment we supply is also suitable for, or adaptable to, many of the other classes of radio yachts used throughout the world.

SAILSetc will continue to offer rc installation, rigging, optimisation and measurement for QUARK. SAILSetc foiuls, ballast, spars, fittings and sails provide an optimised and compatible range of products with which to equip any Marblehead, whether from SAILSetc or from another source.

This and other vintage and vintage-style RC sailboats race in the AMYA Vintage Marblehead (VM) 50/800 (50" overall length/800" sq. in. of sail area) class. The station mold frames and keelson "backbone" are set up on a building board and prepped for planking.

A photo gallery of the building process of a "Peony" Vintage Marblehead (VM) class RC sailboat started at the Wooden Boat School, Brooklin, ME

Sagitta - Marblehead Class Yacht Our Sagitta is a very slim Marblehead Class Yacht, best sailed with a swing rig, with superb performance in light winds. Boat Data: - hull lenght 126cm (50") without front fender - beam 17.2cm (6.75") - epoxy-fiber glass hull & deck moldings - carbon keel & rudder available - all parts can be ordered seperate or ...