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Christmas Season Specials

 

This is a great time of year to purchase our many sailing products

One of our most popular offerings is our Learn-To-Sail gift certificates (with or without a toy sailboat to open on Christmas)... Click Here!

The Malbec18 sportboat/keelboat (has cabin) that we manufacture here in the USA. Click Here!

Our new Historical Lake Coeur d'Alene steamboat chart is still being worked on. Planned release will be July 25th at the first annual Lake Coeur d'Alene Carboard Regatta.

We have great prices on Radio-Controlled and Pond Sailboats, Kites such as Stunt, Pocket, and Floater Kites, Sailing Knives, etc. Click Here!

One can also make a donation to the non-profit Access To Outdoors to support marine access work, accessible sailing, and other projects. To donate email accesstooutdoors@gmail.com

Text 208-704-4454

Email funtosail@gmail.com

  

FunToSAIL Sailboats and Kites

March 12, 10am-3pm... Come to the Silver Lake Mall in Coeur d'Alene Idaho to see our sailboat(s), kites, sailboat toys, etc.

T37 Fleet 2022

As some of you know who live in the Inland NW, FunToSAIL is helping to build the Inland NW Sailors RC sailing fleet. Currently we have a mix of boats owned by our club members but now we are making an effort to build a strong one design fleet around the incredible well designed, high performance, and USA built T37. If you are like me, I have sailed many models of the various RC sailboats with mixed results related to performance and quality. After a ton of research, the T37 has stood out as the boat to build a fleet with.

The T37 RC Racing Sloop is 37 inches long, 5 feet high, and has a total weight of 4 pounds with the keel ballast casting weighing 2 of these pounds. There are more than 3000 (and counting) T37 RC Sailboats sailing today, some in countries as far away as Thailand and New Zealand! There is a large fleet in Washington State. It is a fully sanctioned one design class in the American Model Yachting Association (AMYA). The T37 balances perfectly and sails fast. She tacks effortlessly and will sail in winds gusting up to 20 mph. The heavy ballast casting at the bottom of the keel makes it impossible to tip the sailboat over. All fittings on this RC sailboat are solid brass or high-grade marine 316 stainless steel. The hull is very light and strong, built from 1/8-inch mahogany plywood. The sails are genuine nylon spinnaker cloth; this is the same material that is used on full size sailboat spinnakers. The mast can be removed in less than one minute for easy transport. This is not a plastic toy without the messy easy to brake off pieces, such as fake steering wheels, stanchions, etc. The T37 is sleek and meant to perform at a high level.

The T37 RC Sailboat Kits come with everything you will need to build the boat, including the marine epoxy and all of the RC gear (except for batteries) for sailing the boat. In fact, all you need is paint or varnish and AA batteries!  For assembly, it is recommended ages 15 and up, or 12 and up with an adult. For sailing and racing, ideally for ages 8 through adult.

The T37 racing sloop RC sailboat kit is quick to build (around 20 hours building time) and is a great introduction to using epoxy in boat building. No previous building experience is required. Very complete building videos on YouTube detail every step in the building process for the T37. The kit includes:

Hull and deck pieces pre-cut to an accuracy of 1/1000 of an inch from the highest grade of marine Okume plywood

High-quality brass and stainless-steel hardware

Spectra and monofilament rigging lines

Carbon fiber mast and Hardwood booms (wooden mast available on request)

¾ oz. Nylon Spinnaker cloth pre-sewn sails

Marine-grade epoxy, along with epoxy brushes and syringes

Full Radio Control gear, including the transmitter, receiver, battery box, and rudder and sail servos

Keel ballast casting

Excellent, detailed building instructions to guide you through the entire building process

…and more!

Each boat has a unique personality reflecting the builder's preference for paint styles and colors. The T37 is one of only a few Remote-Control sailboats built out of wood, and one of the most elegant RC sailboat kits available. For most sailors, the T37 is an ideal model sailboat; powerful, seaworthy, fast, and just the right size. This RC sailboat will give pleasure for generations of sailors. And an added note, because the hull is made of wood it can be fixed whereas a plastic hull is next to impossible to fix.

Sails come many colors (contact FunToSAIL for details). The standard mainsail colors are white or fluorescent yellow, and the standard jib sail colors are white, dark blue, red, and fluorescent orange. Other colors listed are an additional coast per sail. Non-standard colors are available. 

For accessories for the T37 RC Sailboat, include a varnish kit and stands.

Very soon we will have a fleet of T37's sailing throughout the Inland NW. Get yourself a boat from FunToSAIL and join us.

Please text or email funtosail@gmail.com for more info.

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Mini Transat 6.5 and Micro Magic

My favorite offshore racer is the Mini Transat 6.50 (21 feet long). If I were doing ocean racing this would be my boat. This is a real nice video of such a boat. Click here to see the class website.

Click here to see another Mini Transat 6.5 video1 and video2

So, if one does not have the time or money for this boat then the next best thing is the radio-controlled sailing model version of it, the Micro Magic (21 inches long). Click here to see the class website. To buy one click here.

 We will posting our own Micro Magic videos shortly

Riverstone RC Model Sailing

Hello fellow sailors I just wanted to let everyone know how the RC model sailing activity turned out on Nov. 12, 2011. We had only 3 boats show up and even though that was a little disappointing I attributed it to the fact that it snowed the night before. However, the wind was great and was not too cold. It was a great morning of sailing, and I had a real hard time having to stop sailing, to much fun.

We love the ponds launch rock as we call it. It’s a long rock that sticks out into the pond that makes it really easy to launch from as the water is nice and deep. The Riverstone Pond has very clean water because it’s filtered and well maintained. It’s my favorite pond to RC model sail on due to the clean water, great wind, and lack of the green algae and milfoil that you see in so many ponds. Also, if your boat malfunctions it will not sail off into the horizon but will just land on the opposite shore.

Next month (Dec.) this pond is most likely going to be froze so we will sail at Independence Point right next to and on the west side of the Coeur d’Alene Resort. See calendar to the right of this article on this website for venue info, etc. Also to learn about this and other sailing venues, lakes, etc. go to funtosail.com

By... Miles Moore commodore of Sailing the Inland NW and owner of funtosail.com