Day 193 9th Biennial Woods Hole Model Boat Show 2013

People coming to the Model Boat Show may bring items for an appraisal by Andrew Jacobson,maritime appraiser from north of Boston.This includes but is not limited to model boats, maps, artifacts, paintings, antiques, anything maritime. Price is only $5 per item. The appraiser will be in the MBL Club building. Tickets for the appraisal may be bought at the same time and place as admission tickets to the Show, available at the Community Hall and the Museum. People wishing for an appraisal should note that Mr. Jacobson will only be at the Show on Saturday. For more information about Mr. Jacobson, see his website Please don’t forget to register for your appraisal when picking up your tickets.

All day Saturday Only at the MBL Club Building

9:30 AM – R/C Racing Boats Under 40 inches.

Noon – Practice and mentoring of WH ladies fleet using chartered Soling One Meters.

1 PM – Racing of boats Over 40 inches.

Margaret-Ann Rice retired to the small village of South Dartmouth and became interested in the fine wooden sailboats in the harbor. Searching for small wooden boat models, she found and purchased sadly neglected small pond boat hulls, toys from another era. Over the last few years she has collected and restored nearly 100 small pond boats. She sells her restored boats on the internet through her website and she does custom restoration for family heirloom boats.

Dick will tell us the results of his program in which he builds models, in association with schools, most in Maine, and arranges to have them set adrift out in the Atlantic from ships, then tracks then with their GPS units. Several have made landfall in Europe.

10 AM – Ladies Regatta using chartered S1Ms.

11 AM – Match racing between Tod Johnstone’s new Trimaran and a Wheeler.

1 PM – Demo of Bill Huizing’s Puritan

And Fun Sailing of any and everything.

John Y. Stoudt is a retired educator, serving in the classroom for twenty five years as an industrial arts teacher and thirteen as a school district administrator.

John is a member of the American Model Yachting Association, The US Vintage Model Yacht Group as well as a number of local clubs. He serves as the Commodore of the Chester Springs Model Yacht Club, a growing club in southeast Pennsylvania.

John has been into pond boats since the late 1990s sailing in numerous states along the east coast from Maryland to Maine winning events and placing in others. He restores antique pond boats and builds others as can be seen in the exhibit. He learned how to build and repair these boats by taking courses offered at WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine. Courses taught by Alan Suydam and Thom McLaughlin on building vintage 36s, vintage Marbleheads, and Skipjacks; and courses on pond sailing and sail making.

He is an avid collector and builder of RC sail boats and now has a small business, The Little Boat Builder, building and repairing boats for others. He has completed commissions that are scratch built wooden and composite boats. John makes custom brass and aluminum fittings, assembles the radio board, and makes the sails for the boats he builds.

Modelers are always fascinated with projects and developments at WHOI with underwater vehicles that seem to have similarity to model boats. The REMUS has become one of WHOI’s most useful AUV’s, taking part in research missions across the world’s oceans.

Woods Hole Historical Museum

Woods Hole Library

Woods Hole Community Hall

Old Fire Station

MBL Club

MBL Candle House

WHOI Smith Building