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Race Report – Weekend of 23/24 September !

Results from the weekend… we had Tens on Saturday and IOMs on Sunday.

On Saturday we had 5 Tens for the first time in ages with a surprise appearance of Nic with his Diamond.

Results were;
Phil 7 pts
Richard U 11 pts
Graham 18 pts
Nic. 21 pts. Winch failure after 6 races
Hugh 31 pts Servo failure after one race.
It was sailed mostly with top rig, except Richard who broke a shroud rigging, so sailed with his second rig.

We had several notable absentees who were away at the RG65s….so Sunday saw 6 IOMs sail 10 races in no 2 rig. Richard J kindly acted as race officer for the day. His new IOM has arrived but no rigs as of Sunday. We were also joined by James Hadden from Gosport who wanted some practice before the Europeans in October.

Results were;
Nigel 10 pts
Hugh 15 pts
James 20 pts (Guest)
Peter. 26 pts finished with a broken Forestay🫤
David 28 pts left on domestic duties after 6 races
Les 42 pts.

I shall also take the opportunity to congratulate those after the RG65s at West Kirby. Good result!

The IOM Europeans in Spain are in a couple of weeks time. Nigel will be attending.

Also the very good news that Richard Jones has joined the Committee to front up publicity. Watch this space😁

RMG Winch and Drum Setup on a One Metre (K2)

This is all somewhat daunting at first, especially for the newcomer.

However, this a is a great little video on RMG setup in a K2. The principles are clear and if you watch carefully, there are great little incidental learnings along the way.

Setting Up Your Radio Transmitter – FlySky and Futaba

I think anyone coming into radio sailing boat ownership for the first time is going to find the digital radio kit somewhat daunting. (personal experience!)

FlySky and Futaba are both commonly used at our club. Pick up the instruction manuals for both of them and they are baffling….. and totally written assuming you use drones, planes, helicopters and gliders. No mention of Radio Sailing!!

In radio sailing we only use a small subset of the functionality that these transmitters offer. I reckon most of the content of the rather large user manuals is not needed by radio sailors.

I’m inclined at some point to produce some user manuals for both systems on what Radio Sailors need and put them on this website as downloads. That assumes I shall ever figure out how to set them up!

In the mean time, here are two great little videos for FlySky and Futaba as it relates to setting up for radio sailing. FlySky video first, then the Futaba video.