Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Water Models / July 2003

Please see my note to Keyz in this sting.

Hi Keyz... my first little sailboat graced the mirrors pond at the swanky
Polanco colony in Mexico back in 1942... I then made a balsa glider that
went high into the air and glided gracefully down - sometimes to land in the
water. Of course! I worked like crazy, as a kid, to make an automatic
steering/sheeting mechanism that would keep my next model boat into the wind
at a graceful reach or upwind tack, and then when luffing, pull the tiller
and hopefully catch the wind from another angle. I built one of the first RC
model airplanes, the LiveWire in 1952/53 using an escapement device that you
had to wind up and a radio signal would trigger a solenoid which would allow
the escapement, like a watch mechanism, to move the rudder right, another
click to neutral, another click to left, another click to neutral. So you
timed your clicks accordingly.

I learned to sail in Hawaii, at Keehi lagoon, in a 110 then skippered a 30'
S boat. I taught my son to sail in a home-built catamaran I thought would
revolutionize sailing for it's safety and ease. Then he built his own Glenn
L 10 in my shop, with a bit of help. He designed and built a trailer to
carry the boat from our Jeffesson St. to the Chula Vista marina with his
bicycle. He became a champion with Hobie Cats and then joined the Navy to
become a Seal. Now, in his late 30's, he is trying to make sailing, RC
stuff, wind and modeling into something, maybe a bit different from the
normal, so more people can enjoy the outdoors, the vast new parks and
recreation areas we taxpayers provide for all of us, and simply wants to
spread the word to water enthusiasts, to air enthusiasts and even to nitro
motor enthusiasts, that there is something else out there called a sail car,
land yacht, or whatever... and it can be fun. He is inviting you to look at
pictures of people having fun. And if he happens to sell a Windjammer, he
will spend the rest of the next two days building one and shipping it out
for the cost of materials and not a penny in his pocket.

You call this spamming?

I call it American Entrepreneurship. If you don't like it, just click on
your message manager and kill my postings. It's that simple.

Wayne, in Chula Vista, where you would be most welcome to drive a wind car
at our expense.

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