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Advanced Radio Sailor’s Guide to the Futaba Transmitter

Last year we wrote Beginners Manuals for radio sailors with Radiomaster, Flysky and Futaba transmitters. There is an excellent Spektrum manual from the USA for which we also published the download link. The manuals have been enormously popular and downloaded about 1,500 times in twelve months. Interestingly the most popular is for Radiomaster, followed by the Radio Sailors Manual for Futaba.

We have been busy recently on both Radiomaster and Futaba finding out how to implement some more advanced features for radio sailing, over and above what we all use normally.

These are:-

. Advanced Mainsheet Management

. 4 Position “Pinch and Puff” using joystick plus switch

. VMG Fine Tune for Mainsheet using volume dial control

. Flick Gybe on a Button

. Advanced Rudder Management

You can download the Implementation Guide for these features on Futaba by clicking here:-

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sailing-radio-controlled-pdf-version-general-topic-advanced-futaba-t10j-guide.pdf

IOMs on Marblehead Day – Club Racing Sunday 4th January !!

Well, seven of us were there today – three of us with our hands either thrust deep into our Rooster Robes … or hugging hot mugs of tea!! Gosh it was cold !! Around zero!!

The light was crystal clear and the sky a magical blue. The lake looked amazing and is full to the top.

We had three Proteus and a Viss…. all looking good. One Proteus (very smart) was wearing great looking Red Ant sails which I’d not seen before. We also had a chance to inspect the new mid-ship section print of the Proteus – very clever stuff going on there.

Four of us had Rooster Robes on – like Club uniform 🙂 Rooster will be at the Worlds – I wonder of we can get Rooster to print them with the IOM Worlds logo when the Championships are on…. must ask.

It was scheduled to be a Marblehead Sunday, but the Team GBR chaps won the vote to switch to IOM training instead. Lots of short order racing – brilliant to watch and very close!! We paused for lunch but the top guys went out on the south course for more afternoon training. As the weather warms up, we are expecting more Team GBR skippers to join in.

IOM Worlds Build Up – Y&Y Latest !!

NB has written another cracking article as part of the IOM Worlds Build Up.

Click here to read it:-

https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/292655/IOM-Worlds-2026-Runners-and-Riders-Part-2