Victor Model Products was started in 1985 with the Soling One Meter and Mini-Soling sailing kits. Business was growing but what customers really wanted was a ready-to-sail boat. George turned his thoughts to creating a sailboat for beginners. It had to be ready to sail and inexpensive. The limiting factor, in George's mind was that the final product should be shipped at standard UPS rates. Designing a ready to sail boat that would fit in standard UPS box was no picnic. Thus the V-32 was designed from the mast down (39 inches was the maximum height of the mast).

You will notice that the class rules indicate that any V-32 from hull #50 on is class legal. Hulls #1 through #49 did not sail as well as George wanted and thus the shape of the hull, particular the transom area, was changed with #50. By the way, V-32 #1 belongs to George's grandson in Louisiana.

The only other hull modification of note was the change in construction of the hatch, which occurred with hull #1400. In 1996 George changed the electronics in the V-32 from Futaba to HiTec transmitters and Cirrus servos.

 As of the date of this article (September 2000) VMP had laid down V-32 hull #3900.

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