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When you think of sailing races such as the Americas Cup, you envision multimillion dollar boats, high tech designs and skilled crews.  The radio controlled saili9ng club members can do it all without the expense.  At Voice of America Park in West Chester Twp., Ohio,  29 members of the Radio Control Sailing Club of Cincinnati sail at 6 p.m., every Tuesday from April to mid-October.  See how these sailors participate in their hobby. (Click Here)

To learn more about this hobby or to find a local club, (Click Here).

Though it will not be officially verified by officials of the Guinness World Record Board for a few months yet, model railroaders have built a model railroad train that measured over 925 feet and ran under its own power for over 750 feet.  This beats the record held by Miniatur Wunderland of Hamberg, Germany with a train measuring over 892 feet that traveled 630 feet.

Pictures from the Boys Life Magazine, Boy Scouts of America

Pinewood Derby

Well, its pinewood derby season, so we thought it might be useful to give you a list of links you might find interesting when you build your pinewood derby cars.  Remember be safe when working with tools.

• Try this cool tool from the Boy Scouts of America, a Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby Design tool.  This tool will actually print out a scaled plan for you to work from.
  http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Youth/PineDesign.aspx
• Find some design help here! http://www.pinewoodpro.com/pinewood-derby-howto-design.htm
• Where do you put those weights, ckeck out this link for more information. http://www.pinewoodprofessor.com/weight.html
• 5 Keys to Pinewood Derby Performance. http://www.maximum-velocity.com/fivekeys.htm
• How about a little hard core help, find it here! http://pinewoodfreak.com/
• General Information at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby