Sail Yacht America Scale Model Plans
America in 1910
The yacht America was launched in 1851 . She was designed by George Steers and Co. The story begins when some members of the NewYork Yacht Club wants to build a yacht to sail England. The purpose of this was to show American yacht building skills and to make money through yacht regattas. She attended a special yacht race in England. She started well behing because of a fouled anchor. Then she gained better places in 7 schooners and 8 cutters. While all the others were taking a turn around a light ship, America manuevered between the ship and the land. There were objections about this manuever which took America to the lead but it was not stated in the race rules, so the manuever counted legal. She maintained the lead during the rest of the race and she finished 18 minutes before the second yacht Aurora. There she won Royal Yacht Squadron’s 53-mile (85 km) regatta around the Isle of Wight . As she finished, Queen Victoria asked who was the second and she got the answer as “There is no second, your majesty”. Unfortunately she couldn’t be preserved and in 1945 she was scrapped. There are some replicas of the boat still sailing…
The plans are quite good and detailed. Actually there’s not much deck equipment, so you actually don’t even need so much detail. There are some pictures as reference. Now it is your time onboard America to race…