RC Sailboat & Model Sailing Guide

Hi, I found this wonderful article about students building a Marblehead model on the sailingmodels.blogspot.com and wanted to share it.

Hello! I am Cathy Landergan a high school teacher. I’m not a shop teacher, my background is CADD (AutoCAD) and I wanted to create a connection between the plans and building the boats. My pre-engineering students built the classic Marblehead pond model from the Madcap plans. They start the class by creating the templates using CADD.

We have a full woodshop including band saw etc. And the kids did do the fiber-glassing, and we started from the CADD plans.

I’m also inviting local companies when possible to come into the classroom. Doyle Sailmakers helped us create the sails and we did a field trip to see the sails being made etc.

Here are some pictures of the Marblehead’s from last year at various stages. We made 4 boats, 3 of which were finished except for the electronics because we ran out of time.

Students worked in teams of 2 or 3. We sold one of the boats, and it’s my hope that we will be able to fund the program from the sale of these boats. It’s a little sad that the kids can’t keep the boats but there’s no way to split up a boat between three kids. At least they have the knowledge to make their own.

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I found this site and it has some free model ship plans including some RC Sailboats. Don’t expect to much. Some of the plans seem to be more a picture of the boat then a real plan, but have a look and maybe it’s something for you. Aerofred – RC Sailboat Plans

If you need more plans read my review on this model ship plans dvd.

The banks dory was a very common type of small dingy taken along on larger fishing schooners or just used by itself. This site describes a little bit more of the history and features detailed build instruction & model sailboat plans for the banks dory. Well worth to check out, but you will need to modify them for making a RC Sailboat out of it.

If you need more plans read my review on this model ship plans dvd.