T50 MOD RC Racing Yacht

The T50 is designed to be fast. The main reason for the boat’s high performance is because the T50 is built to be so 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.

he T50 MOD kit includes a mainsail, plus three different jibsails. You can choose your rig to suit the day’s wind, or you can even sail without a jib on days with extraordinarily heavy winds. The largest sail area is 1200 sq. in., or the smallest is 625 sq. in.

Also included is a Hitec drum winch RC servo. This servo has the power to haul in your sails in any wind.

The building systems we use in the T50 kit have evolved after 25 years of designing, building and sailing model sailboats. After more than 55,000 boats built here at Tippecanoe Boats and talking with thousands of customers, we have developed building systems that work smoothly and well. The systems work for both beginning builders and the highly skilled craftsman. Some of the boats built from our kits are more beautiful than the boats I have built myself with every detail showing incredible depth of skill. Other boats have been built more quickly with the idea of “get the boat built and go sailing!” Both approaches work well and turn out happy builders and happy skippers. The big thing, when you start building a Tippecanoe Kit, is that 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 I have built the first one, and maybe the first six with minor modifications from one to the next until the building systems are simple and straightforward and the sailing performance is nothing short of superb.

Every boat we produce should be a work of art and perfect in every detail from the finest materials to the finest design concepts. That is what Tippecanoe Boats stands for. I know we are doing pretty well when I talk to customers who have built two T37’s and a T27 and are getting ready to build a T50. Well, that is what we are about, doing things right and giving you boats that are fun and rewarding to build and sensational to sail!