- Model Boat Main Page I started some 22 years ago, but found that the costs of the all the bits a pieces to high and after a couple of early failures (crashes to everyone else) I shelved the hobby. At the beginning of 2000 my wife suggested that I found a hobby to try and un-stick me from my other hobby, computers. It wasn't a hard choice and after digging around I came across my old multi hull ...www.icboats.org