Marblehead Sunday ….!!

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We had simply sensational racing today. Greeted by a fantastic breeze, B Rig (threat of more later as another named storm sweeps across) racing was quick and properly exciting. Eight skippers gathered for coffee and eventually seven raced. Great to see our two new members.

Results pretty close! Only one point separating Nigel and Hugh at the top!

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Richard had to DNC quite early as his fin started to take on its own cute personality, …and is now with Dr Graham for therapy.

Graham was scoring us on A-Fleet as part of our trial to extend our choice of scoring tools. Looked good !! More on that subject soon.

Beginner Guides and Radio Sailing Transmitter Manuals…. POPULAR !!!

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When we launched the Datchet Radio Sailing website in late 2023, we had an eye on trying to reduce the inhibitors people often feel when they get into radio sailing.

A few “Beginners Guide” manuals were created as downloads, mainly for radio transmitters, but also the likes of installing new winches (very popular!), diagnosing problems in the electrics, installing new transmitters and so on.

The response has been amazing. In a few days time, the radio transmitter global downloads of the manuals are going to reach a total of 1000. It’s 985 downloads as I type (August 2025). Of those, about half are for the Radiomaster – interesting.

The beginners guide on how to fit a new winch has, alone, been downloaded 255 times. How to install a new transmitter has been downloaded 72 times.

The Futaba and Flysky manuals are about equally popular as each other – Futuaba slightly more so.

I have a Spektrum in the workshop ready to install on a Proteus IOM. I had a plan to produce a manual for that also (one day … takes a lot of time). In the meantime, there is a link to an excellent radio sailing manual for the Spektrum DX6 on a US based website. If anyone wants to give a hand with that, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Really interesting.