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Advanced Radio Sailor’s Guide to the Futaba Transmitter

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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

Nigel’s Proteus IOM Set Up…!!

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Have you seen Nigel’s super article and video on Proteus setup??!!

Click here to read it:-

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/my-proteus-build-and-set-up

Tens on Saturday 23rd and IOM’s On Sunday 24th – Nigel’s New VISS ….!!

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Ten Raters were on Saturday – no wind though!! Commodore said they had to push the boats out then had a long drift to get them back again!! RW brought along his new Trance – what a looker that boat is !!

Then to IOM Sunday and Phil’s Report :-

Low water level today meant we could walk along the lower beach on the North shore, by next week we should be able to drive down to the waters edge.

The first sighting at Datchet of the new VISS design from Sailboat RC – yes, Nigel’s new beauty has arrived !!

Eight IOM’s today including guests Ken McAlpine and Harry Neil. Shifty light winds and lack of buoys to set a good course didn’t make life easy but Craig (Proteus) , Nigel (Viss) , Dorian (Britpop) and David (V12) dominated at the front of the fleet.

First couple of races didn’t get scored (Jim did well !!) while boats were sorted and tweaked but we did score four races before adjourning for lunch. Craig, Nigel and Dorian practiced after lunch while Phil & Jim recovered a few of the grounded marks and reset them further into the lake.

To read more about Nigel’s VISS, click the following links.

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/the-first-outings-with-the-viss

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/racing-the-viss