The F6 looks a good all-rounder – this video in Light Airs from Mission Bay :-
Video of F6 Marblehead in Light Breeze
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Bouybot Trial – GPS Robotic Marker Buoys
Have you been following the debate about using gps marker buoys for racing that stay on a fixed location? If you are with a Club that has to bring its race marks ashore frequently, or resets courses a lot, it will be of interest.
It’s very interesting. Datchet dinghy club has had a large GPS located marker on trial for a couple of years. Datchet Radio Sailing group was trialling one mark this last Saturday for the Tens racing. The concept is for six gps controlled buoys, great for our purposes, all linked together by radio.
This is the hand controller for what would be a fleet of six buoys.
Results of the trial? Despite it being blowy with a bit of a swell running, the buoy held station for three to four hours very accurately. It used 18% battery in that period, so that’s one big question answered.
There’s a really good Australian video about them in operation that you can see here:-
Racing Report – July 29th and 30th
After three successive weekends of Marbleheads… and strong breezes, we changed gear to Tens and IOMS… and strong breezes !!
Results from the weekend.
Congratulations to Richard Uttley and Nic Charles winning on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Four tens starting racing on Saturday in second suits, possibly it should have been Third suits. Graham had rudder issues and only completed one race. During the fourth race I lost rudder control and then sheeting and the boat took off heading north of the Castle later to be rescued by a RIB, on getting the boat ashore it was discovered that a suspect short/overload in the rudder servo had caused a small electrical fire and the servo wiring was still smouldering. Needless to say this put pay to any further racing for myself and Phil and Richard U decided to give up.
1st Richard. 4 pts
2nd Phil. 5 pts
3rd Hugh. 6 pts
4th Graham. 14 pts
On Sunday we had 5 IOMs and Roger who decided not to sail his borrowed boat. We started in Third (smallest rig) and after 4 races we decided that no. 2 Rig would be OK. In all we did ten races and the scores were
1st Nic Charles. 10 pts (6 wins)
2nd Hugh. 16 pts
3rd David. 20pts
4th Peter. 30 pts
5th Phil. 36 pts
It’s fair to say that both Peter and Phil had boat issues which accounts for their relatively high points tally.
Marbleheads next weekend.
Datchet Radio Sailing - Making It All Much Easier !! 