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Sunday 2nd August – Marblehead day…!!

Jolly quiet all round at the Club today. Deep holiday season now.

It’ll be well known that we are in drought. Datchet is at about half height though. Plenty of water in there and according to Thames Water still about 12-15m in there. The K1 keelboat fleet was out racing. No rain in the 10 day forecasts though.

Coffee was good as was the chatter in the Clubhouse. Scampi and chips scored top marks.

Radio Sailor Transmitter Manuals….!!

The purpose of this post is mainly to provide a landing page for Facebook users, where all our printable PDF download Transmitter Programming Manuals can be accessed in one place.

We have included the AMYA link to their excellent and printable basic manual for the Spektrum.

There are also some links in the final section to printable Beginner Guides that have been highly popular on our website.

Finally, quite often we find official Radiomaster Transmitter User guides quite hard to come by. If you are making the transition from the old type Radiomaster (eg Pocket or Boxer) to the new “full screen” type models (eg TX15, TX16) you will find the TX16 official manual (©Radiomaster) very useful. We have included that at the end of the list.

Radiomaster

Beginners Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-format-to-the-radiomaster-pocket-v8-18-may-2024.pdf

Advanced Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/advanced-radiomaster-pdf-version-for-radio-sailors-03-mar-2026.pdf

Futaba

Beginners Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-the-futaba-t6k-v9-09-jul-2024.pdf

Advanced Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/sailing-radio-manuals-pdf-version-advanced-futaba-programming-for-radio-sailors-jul-2026.pdf

Advanced Manual for Futaba T10J – Original Draft before writing the website

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sailing-radio-controlled-pdf-version-general-topic-advanced-futaba-t10j-guide.pdf

Spektrum

Beginners Manual

https://www.amyaclubs.org/HomeImages/HowTo/40.pdf

Advanced Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/sailing-radio-manuals-pdf-version-advanced-spektrum-programming-for-radio-sailors-jul-2026.pdf

Flysky

Beginners Manual

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-the-flysky-fsi6-v4-19-may-2024.pdf

Other Popular Guides

Setting Up Your Rudder Angles

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-setting-your-rudder-angles.pdf

Fitting a New Winch

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-fitting-a-new-winch.pdf

Diagnosing Under Deck Problems

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sailing-pdf-version-v2-diagnosing-under-deck-problems-jul-2024.pdf

Radiomaster Full Screen (TX16) Official Manual

©Radiomaster – check for the latest copy on the official Radiomaster Support website, but if you are setting out to program a Radiomaster “full screen” transmitter such as TX15 or TX16 , you will find this official manual useful. On the day or drafting this post, this manual was no longer listed on the Radiomaster site.

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/sailing-radiomaster-tx16-user-manual.pdf

©Radiomaster

Errors. omissions and amendments… and new ideas…. all welcome! Please send them in via the Contact page of this website.

Marblehead Ranking at Lincoln Saturday – Austin, Phil Doing Great !!

Good fleet up there – 21 boats. Phil will be pleased with a win, a handful of 2nds and fourth overall… but Austin going gangbusters in 3rd !!