U.S. Vintage Model Yacht Group

Featured in Model Yachting Issue #122, #139

Special Interest Group President

John Snow
78 East Orchard Street
Marblehead, MA 01945-3611
(781) 631-4203

The U.S. Vintage Model Yacht Group is a Special Interest Group of the American Model Yachting Association. Our organizational goals are the preservation, building, and sailing of older model yacht designs, and the study of the history of the sport of model yachting. "Vintage" primarily refers to older model sailboats no longer sailed (or never raced) in serious competition. These encompass free-sailing model yachts, older designs converted to R/C and pre-1970s R/C sailing models. This includes class racing yachts, non-class sailing models and commercially-built toys of the past. There are also replica models built to the older designs and new designs recreating older sailboat styles. We also serve the interests of individuals who sail model schooners and other operating scale models.

For more information, please visit our Vintage Model Yacht Group, where you'll find information on the history of model yachting, how the boats were controlled before R/C, vintage construction methods, and much more -- including sailing model square-riggers like those at the Great Schooner Society.  See a small set of Schooner Photos here on the AMYA site.

Here's a Victor Model Products kit built Mary J. Ward Schooner, 44 inches overall from bowsprit tip to main sail boom tip

This is a Malabar I, a kit from Hartman RC Fibreglass

See more about schooners here!

See the Traditional Sailing Craft Scale Models Regatta page