Centenary of the Yachting Monthly Cup
The Model Yachting Association, the authority for racing radio-controlled and free-sailing model yachts, celebrates the centenary of the Yachting Monthly Cup in August.
For the first event in 1923, Malden Heck-stall-Smith, then editor, donated the trophy and devised a rating rule for moderate displacement model yachts that was intended to develop designs for full-size yachts using the same formula.
Heckstall-Smith’s ‘A-class’ rule saw the design and development of beautiful yachts over 6-feet long and helped to generate international model yacht competitions between England, Europe, North America and South Africa in the 1920s and
