I confess that I don’t fully understand 3D printing but it seems to be on the way to making some big changes to our sailing world.
I was just browsing for IOM Stand designs and this website came up. Note the first few photos – a printed IOM Stand !!
If you browse down there are a few more IOM components but another thing item that caught my eye was some very natty aerodynamic IOM Spreaders…
Ten Raters were on Saturday – no wind though!! Commodore said they had to push the boats out then had a long drift to get them back again!! RW brought along his new Trance – what a looker that boat is !!
Then to IOM Sunday and Phil’s Report :-
Low water level today meant we could walk along the lower beach on the North shore, by next week we should be able to drive down to the waters edge.
The first sighting at Datchet of the new VISS design from Sailboat RC – yes, Nigel’s new beauty has arrived !!
Eight IOM’s today including guests Ken McAlpine and Harry Neil. Shifty light winds and lack of buoys to set a good course didn’t make life easy but Craig (Proteus) , Nigel (Viss) , Dorian (Britpop) and David (V12) dominated at the front of the fleet.
First couple of races didn’t get scored (Jim did well !!) while boats were sorted and tweaked but we did score four races before adjourning for lunch. Craig, Nigel and Dorian practiced after lunch while Phil & Jim recovered a few of the grounded marks and reset them further into the lake.
To read more about Nigel’s VISS, click the following links.
https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/the-first-outings-with-the-viss
If you adore gorgeous blue sky weather, this was the day! Quite a good A Rig NNE breeze, with a five boat fleet. We launched off the newly positioned main pontoon, which worked well. Quite a few “gear” challenges, but we had a pretty great time – lunched was called at around 1pm and we were ready for it 🙂
Datchet Radio Sailing - Making It All Much Easier !! 