It’s quite hard as a Beginner to deal with some of the barriers-to-entry of radio sailing and especially anything to do with the radio control kit. Most likely in life, you will not have encountered it before!

The first quite likely thing to happen, is that you buy a nice second hand boat and the radio kit does not come with it. You’re “out there” feeling exposed straight away !! However, you can come to the same first-timer problem from quite a few start points.

It’s not all that difficult to do, but the first time it will not feel all that easy either. Whenever you pick up the transmitter manuals, for radio sailing first timers they are no use at all.

There are a multiple of ways to do this, and essentially it is the same process for all brands of transmitter. The most common transmitter brand at our club is Futaba, and this is what I used for the two methods described in this document.

If you are experienced and have some suggestions or amendments to make, please DO send them in so we can include them in a future revision.