Courtesy of Phil Holliday, we have some videos of racing at the Marblehead Ranking 6.
I must say, as it is hard to get video of Radio Sailing to look good, these videos from Phil stand out!! Take a look …!!
First video : a start and first beat
Second video : rounding the top marks
Third video : Following the super smooth technique of Craig Richards sailing number 66, an F6
Fourth Video : the fleet really nailing the top mark
We probably all know it’s useful to have access to tweezers when you’re maintaining the boat. I am the happy owner of two pairs, cranked ends about 15cms long.
Then at the Rankings I saw these… I hope the original application was not medical. They’re huge!
My recently arrived K2 came with a complete Futaba T6K transmitter setup. It’s the second one I’ve tried. The loan boat I borrowed had the same thing. I’m getting to love it.
At the weekend, we had some chatter at the lake-side with other owners saying they could usefully be more robust. There have been slider switches coming off, water getting in, and so on. Admittedly it does feel a tad ‘plastic’.
VS suggested we all take a look at the T6 model 10J. He says it’s a whole lot stronger, uses the same receivers, and is frankly roughly the same price…. well, there’s not much in it. It’s the difference between ‘quite a bit’ and ‘a lot’.
This is the first link I found when I googled it.
https://sloughrc.com/futaba-10j-10ch-combo-2-4ghz-ts-fhss-mode2-r3008sb.html
This is a pretty good description on the Ripmax website
http://www.ripmax.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=P-CB10J/L&Category=025-060
This is what they show on the Futaba USA website, and it does look a lot more metal over there
If you have any experience of a 10J for radio sailing please leave us a comment on this post.
I’ll try and write something up, just as soon as I’ve seen one for real.
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