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Marblehead Games – Littleton

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Eight of us took our Marbleheads over to Littleton (Guildford MYC’s new home) today to compete in the Mermaid Trophy and part of the Marblehead Games series.

It was shorts weather last week, and polar weather today !! We were on A rigs in the main.

The huge proportion of the fleet were sailing F6’s – a very nice feeling for PH and GH, to see the result of all their years of hard work making an impact.

Two of our advanced Radiomaster transmitter projects were also in test today – looking very good! (More on this before the year is out) PH’s new TX15 was looking very smart showing off its multicolour gimbal illumination in the half light of the afternoon! Very Christmasy !!

The event organisers made an interesting claim – that this Games Series is the longest continually running Marblehead event in the country…. it’s been running since 1979 even through covid and lock down! Pretty good !!

It was a nice size fleet of around 12 or 13 competitors. Final results will be with us shortly. Hotly contested at the top! NB was beaten into second place by just 2 points, and HM came 3rd – both of them with a good number of race wins!

Radiomaster Ratchet on Throttle/Winch Joystick..!!

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Are you a mainsheet ratchet fan? I admit that I am, but at our club opinion is pretty passionately divided !!

In my transmitter collection, the Futabas have a ratchet as standard and the Spektrums have a ratchet you can switch on and off from outside the front cover (nice!).

However, I always thought that Radiomaster has no ratchet capability. It turns out that is probably true for my Radiomaster Pocket,… but if you have a Radiomaster with AG01 or AG02 CNC machined gimbals (eg Boxer or TX15 ) there is a ratchet in there. You do have to go inside to switch it on/off or adjust it though.

Ratchet and gimbal tension are both screw adjustable on a simple (crude!) pair of spring friction levers inside. You might also need a little “hack” if you find your ratchet adjustment spring sticks on the adjustment screw thread.

This little video (below) is a tour of the whole AG01 Gimbal joystick. (worth watching if you have a Radiomaster). If you skip forward to minute 4’15” you will arrive at the video section about adjusting the ratchet and gimbal tension – with the “hack” !!

Click here to see it:-

https://youtu.be/K8aRgndgyp0

Beginner Guides and Radio Sailing Transmitter Manuals…. POPULAR !!!

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When we launched the Datchet Radio Sailing website in late 2023, we had an eye on trying to reduce the inhibitors people often feel when they get into radio sailing.

A few “Beginners Guide” manuals were created as downloads, mainly for radio transmitters, but also the likes of installing new winches (very popular!), diagnosing problems in the electrics, installing new transmitters and so on.

The response has been amazing. In a few days time, the radio transmitter global downloads of the manuals are going to reach a total of 1000. It’s 985 downloads as I type (August 2025). Of those, about half are for the Radiomaster – interesting.

The beginners guide on how to fit a new winch has, alone, been downloaded 255 times. How to install a new transmitter has been downloaded 72 times.

The Futaba and Flysky manuals are about equally popular as each other – Futuaba slightly more so.

I have a Spektrum in the workshop ready to install on a Proteus IOM. I had a plan to produce a manual for that also (one day … takes a lot of time). In the meantime, there is a link to an excellent radio sailing manual for the Spektrum DX6 on a US based website. If anyone wants to give a hand with that, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Really interesting.