Tag Archives: International One Metre

IOM Nationals Over the Easter Weekend ….!!

Great event summary written by Nigel is available here:-

https://www.sail-world.com/news/295053/2026-UK-IOM-National-Championship

Chipstead District IOMs…..

Great fleet and great Team Datchet turn-out today. A super 21 boat fleet with 6 of our members! Racing was jolly competitive to put it mildly. The Datchet club was hosting inter University team racing today (near the shore, so a challenge for our little race courses) plus an RYA Youth event ……the general consensus was “lets go to Chipstead instead”!!

It was light and wispy from the south…. very tense!! Typical Chipstead southerly !!! Nigel and Craig sailed superbly to finish 2nd and 3rd respectively. The event was won by a wonderfully consistent Peter Stollery. Always up the front!!

Phil – who had to leave for home early – also put in some great numbers. By mid morning we’d had a couple of Datchet 1-2-3’s . Harry will be pleased as punch and our Jim found himself so far out front in one race he had a champions aura about him!!

(Phil’s Proteus)

(Chipstead, as ever, pretty as a picture…!)

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