On Sunday five Marblehead skippers were out in B Rigs, which at times really should have been C1s. We got ten races in!!
The wind direction was NNW which meant the North course and this kept the 44 Waszps away from us and the usual fleet of Club boats meant that the Southern area was crowded!
Results from 10 races Phil 11 pts and 5 wins Hugh 14 pts and 5 wins David A 19pts Richard U 28 pts Graham H was tail end Charlie and was a bit poorly, though still able to put away a bacon and egg roll (Ed : AND a Kit Kat..!!). at lunch time.
A bright sunny morning at Datchet welcomed the visiting Waszp sailors – wind WSW 8kts gusting 15kts. Andrew & Geoffrey were joined by Ross. After a brief session getting used to sailing upwind in the chop built up due to the wind direction, circa 7 two lap short informal triangle races were held to practice starts and mark rounding. By the last race at 11:45 it was evident practice does pay off!
Following our recent article about Receivers in confined “pots” (right angle plugs and in-line plugging issue), I phoned the terrific Inwood Models up in Huntingdon to talk it through.
I called Inwood Models as they were only people I found advertising a Futaba “transmitter-only” price. Lo and behold, the very nice people at Inwood explained they had just sold their last transmitter-only item from stock … but new stock from Futaba is due next week…..With 8 channel receivers included with the product.
The key thing, as we suggested in our recent article, that Futaba’s distributor is now only packaging the transmitter with a R3008SB 8 channel receiver ….with it’s plugs in-line, not at right angles. Could be an issue for some of us.
The terrific staff at Inwood had clearly already encountered the problem of in-line versus right angle plugging before …. so it’s not just us radio sailors down south! Anyway, they were extremely kind and offered to swap the receiver over when the box from Futaba arrives. Problem solved – thank you Inwood Models.
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