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Radio Sailing Transmitter Manuals – on pdf Printouts or their own websites….?

Our 2025 pdf downloadable transmitter manuals for Radio Sailing Beginners have so far been popular. As I write, the Beginners Guide to programming the Radiomaster has been downloaded 1,075 times in a bit under a year. Doesn’t sound like many? Well according to AI there are only around 19,000 radio sailors in the World. Makes you think.

To upgrade the Datchet Radio Sailing manuals to include some really sexy radio sailing transmitter ideas, we built a website for each brand – we have Radiomaster, Futaba and Spektrum Manuals online now.

If you haven’t seen them, look for the button saying “RADIOS” on the menu (bar or button) of this Club website.

Naturally we thought the websites would sort of take over the popularity. Then something else unexpected happened – the number pdf downloads of the Beginner Manuals actually accelerated and increased.

Consequently now we’re wondering if the websites need to have pdf downloadable versions of their content. Perhaps readers prefer a repined manual to work from.

It wouldn’t take long to do. Let us know what you think!!

Nigel’s Tell Tales Update….!!

Looks like we have to try some Fly Float spray from the fishing shop. Very interesting story of evolution and experimentation here :-

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/more-work-on-tell-tales

Weekend of 21/22 February….

Five of our members were on the Circuit this weekend. Nigel, David and Vernon went to the IOMs at Poole and Rohan with Graham went off to the RG65 at Bournville.

Rohan did great – with a 4th on a Saturday in a big-name fleet and got 3rd on Sunday ahead of Dorian !! Rohan reports the Snickers Chocolate bar was good!

Down in Poole it was slightly blowy, but David sailed an absolute stormer finishing 2nd overall !! (David in a V12 I think.) Great to see David doing so well. Nigel grabbed a 5th which ain’t half bad when you look at who was sailing !!