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Introducing the

T50 MOD RC Racing Yacht

A New Era in Performance Wooden Sailcraft

The T50 combines the splendid traditional elegance of gleaming varnished wood with the ultra-light construction and strength of modern, hi-tech super-materials. The ultralight T50 sails incredibly. The entire weight of the finished boat ready to sail is just over 8 pounds with almost 5 pounds of cast ballast at the bottom of the 20 inch deep fin keel. Six carbon fiber ribbons reinforce the cedar strip hull in a matrix of West System epoxy. Carbon fiber is used to give a superb strength and stiffness in the fin keel and for the mast. The building techniques are simple and straightforward with an excellent instruction manual full of pictures and very clear text. We feel that anyone should be successful in building the T50. The building is a very exciting project - you are building a truly beautiful yacht that you will enjoy for many years to come. What a great feeling to take the boat that you have built down to the lake to sail! With its splendid and exciting sailing performance and its elegance, the T50 RC Racing Yacht is the ultimate in model sailboats. It is hard to imagine a finer model sailboat.

The T50 is designed to be fast. The main reason for the boat's high performance is because the T50 is built to be light. The hull with its full rig, batteries and radio control gear weighs only 3.25 pounds. The ballast keel and rudder weigh 5 pounds for a total weight of just 8.25 pounds. This is extraodinary considering the 50 inch length, 20 inch deep keel, and 73 inch mast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The T50 MOD kit includes a mainsail, plus three different jibsails. You can choose your rig to suit the day's wind, so you can enjoy sailing in light winds or in extraordinarily heavy winds. The largest sail area is 1200 sq. in., and the smallest is 700 sq. in. depending on which jib you set.

All of the radio control gear is included in the T50 kit: the transmitter, the receiver, the rudder servo and a drum winch for the sails. The HiTec drum winch has the power to haul in your sails in any wind.

The building systems we use in the T50 kit have evolved over 30 years of designing and building more than 65,000 model sailboats. We talk with hundreds of owners and builders every year, and we have developed building systems that work smoothly and well and create incredible sailing boats. The systems work for both beginning builders and highly skilled builders. Some of the boats built from our kits are works of art with every detail showing incredible depth of skill. Other boats are built more quickly with the idea of "get the boat built and go sailing!" Both approaches work well and turn out boats that will last for years of sailing. When you start building a Tippecanoe boat, you know the boat will sail beautifully. This is partly due to my 50 years of experience on the water with boats of all sizes, but equally as important are the months of sail testing and refinements that have gone into every design. You know when you are building a Tippecanoe Boat, that the building systems have been developed to be simple and straightforward and that the sailing performance will be nothing short of superb. Every boat we produce incorporates the finest materials and the finest design concepts. That is what Tippecanoe Boats stands for. Many builders build several of our boats because they get so much pleasure from the building and the sailing. We give you boats that are fun and rewarding to build and sensational to sail, boats that will last for many generations!

 

T50 MOD Kit: $625.00

T50 MOD Varnish Kit: $19.50

T50 Wall-hanging Stand $26.50

T50 Floor Stand $32.50

 

 

 

 

 

T50 - an

incredible boat,

very beautiful,

very fast,

very fun!

Radio Control Sailboat T50MOD Video

 

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