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I was called Noah! Now my grandson is named Noah. It would not have fitted in the front yard, plus the evil empire (city of Portland) would have seen it. That is the mast on the right hand edge. 50' The house in the upper left was built in my original exit route.

The mainsail sheet in mounted at the end of the boom and runs forward until it can turn down to the helmsman for adjustment. The jib sheets angle to where the crew can handle them. Having no crew and helmsman on a RC sailboat, the jib is rigged for only one sheet, not two and both main and jib sheets go to the one winch. If you are going to use RC, look at the modern servos. They are the big arm or drum types. I would try to rig the sheets to go thru the desks and not the cabin roof, which needs to be removable. If you are interested in going the RC route, web search "starlet or star model yachts". You can see what people have done to rig their "Starlets". The "Star" is a very popular larger size RC sailboat. There is three days (at least) of reading on rigging and fittings for model yachts on the web. As a warning, those RC yachting types are very serious competitors.

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Hello All I am a long time model maker returning to the stash of kits and started models I have accumulated for my retirement. My first memory of model building is when I got a Revell trio of warships for Christmas when I was nine. The carrier "Franklin D Roosevelt", some battleship or cruiser and a pt boat. This was before every pt boat had to be the PT 109. I had a wall mounted peg board of plastic ship to move when I was twelve. It survived that. In my teen years I turned to trains, girls, life, etc. I started my first plank on bulkhead model, a Billings "Bluenose", while I was in the navy in the late 60's. Moved that hull to Bermuda, where I realized, I could not safely ship a rigged model back to the states. Build and shipped a 16 foot cuddy cabin outboard boat instead. Finally finished and cased the "Bluenose" ten years later (1980's). I did a number of RC boats, good and Dumas, thru the years with some scratched builds included. Most successful of these was a little pusher air-screw sled from "Model Boat" magazine. Now have four grandsons, still interested in trains, my 1.7 scale GP38-2 comes in time for Christmas (again) and have three false keels with bulkheads in various stages laying on my bench. I have stuck on a picture of my last scratch built boat (purchased blocks and other bits) for entertainment purposes. My answer to 'how did you do that?" is always 'one stick at a time'. Ok, big sticks. "

I found my instructions hiding at the very bottom.