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The website has a scrolling ‘news feed’ of items (see below) listed in date order, most recent first. You might prefer to access information from the general list of topics shown under “Categories” which appear to the right or beneath the ‘news feed’ depending on what device you are using. There is also a “search bar” facility, plus you can subscribe by email. If you’d like a demonstration sail, please click the Trial Sail item on the main menu bar above.

Post Worlds – Horizontal Position….!

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Apologies for being quieter than we should be “post Worlds”!! There’s a lot to tell, obviously.

Still a huge amount of post-event work crashing through …. I popped in to remove a few flag poles on Wednesday and DWSC told me to leave them there! Thank you to our wonderful competitors for not taking their flag home as a souvenir!!

How nice are those people at Thames Water. Despite the drought. they kept the water level high for the Worlds!! Now – two to three metres came out at roughly 1 metre per night.

Interesting. VERY dry in my home town…..

More analysis soon.

IOM Worlds – It’s a Wrap ….!!

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The Club Website has been a little quiet while we organised the IOM Worlds at Datchet Radio Sailing!

In the end, a pretty BIG thing to do and, we feel, went well 🙂

Alexis was amazing, wasn’t he?! Hope you have been following everything at the excellent MYA site

http://www.IOMworlds2026.com

(You can see the full official results there)

There will be lots of post event analysis to come on the Club website in the coming weeks. Plenty to tell you. We learned a huge amount about how to put something like this together, plus we have the robot marks, checklists, costs analysis, scoring tech, parallel scoring, how to audit 3000 scores, boat designs, the Proteus story (2 Worlds Race Wins for Proteus!!), fully Umpired Racing, safety (somebody managed to fall in in addition to the winner being thrown in!)

Going to lie down now.

Till then…..

Buoybot RTK Beacon…..Accuracy an inch or less each way !!

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A couple of people have asked what the RTK Beacon of the new Buoybots looks like.

Well this is it:-

You’ll notice that during a race session, it has to be absolutely firmly in place for RTK to work properly, ….though we shall take it down after each day’s racing.

I have one on my house(!), and when offered a choice of aluminium or steel pole, the answer from the engineer was, “use steel every time!”.

RTK’s main application to date (I understand) is in the Construction Industry – especially for accurately locating under-ground assets…. like when they dig up your High Street. There is plenty of information about it online, but here is a quick item

https://pointonenav.com/news/what-is-rtk-real-time-kinematic/

You would have to be a very sharp eyed member of Datchet Radio Sailing to spot that the controller looks like it is a new casing. As can happen to anyone, if you get a crack in it… you just print another one.

I really have to learn more about this 3D printing idea!…..

Understanding RTK: A Guide for Beginners
Understanding RTK: A Guide for Beginners