Yesterday morning saw just myself and Mark at the SAMYC lake in Kohler, WI. Winds were light and quite variable so we decided not to race with two regulars missing. It was one of those pleasant warm days when messing about with boats is the perfect pastime. Now Mark’s Kittiwake hasn’t been the fastest in [...]
Archive for June, 2008
a sunday morning’s pleasant fettling
Posted in model sail boats, tagged Add new tag, Footy, Kittiwake, sail tuning, yacht on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
big water, small boat
Posted in model sail boats on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photos from our customers generally go into the ‘gallery’ pages at www.scalesailing.com but I just had to show you these here! Makes me want to get out on Lake Michigan and tackle the big stuff. Luke wrote…
Dear Graham-
I received Kittiwake hull # 252 (now known as Logix) for my birthday a
few weeks ago. I have [...]
gooseneck and vang
Posted in model sail boats, tagged Footy rig, Footy yacht, Scale Sailing on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the last two days I have been making a batch of the ScaleSailing Gooseneck & Vang upgrade kits. So now I have a whole heap of them!
These brass fittings make a really nice upgrade to a Kittiwake or of course they can be used on your own design footy. The assembly only weighs 4g [...]
New sail servo available from ScaleSailing.com
Posted in model sail boats on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Blue Bird BMS-380MG has blown me away with it’s potential as a racing Footy sail winch servo. A well respected footy sailor mentioned these on one of the forums so I decided to try one out. I fitted it in my new Pond Sprite design which I knew I would be carrying more sail [...]
two years of Foamy Footys
Posted in model sail boats on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was suprised to realise that it is already a little over two years since I made my first ‘foamy footy’. A lot has happened in that time and it has been great fun to supply so many kits and hear reports of how much fun they can be to build and sail. Kittiwakes have been [...]
eat up your Pringles ™
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Pringles ™ lid hatch experiment has proven to be very effective. Pond Sprite with the hatch has been sailed in some windy and choppy conditions including the 4 1/2 hours at the Footy Fest and stayed bone dry. Our Kittiwakes with a well taped down deck cover were always dry boats but the Pringles [...]
from many parts
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I took delivery of some kit parts over the last couple of days. Rudder stocks from a mountainside in California and laser cutting from up a mountain in Colorado. These are Kittiwake parts and now that I have them I can start putting together some more kits. Good news for those on my temporary waiting [...]
