The season is nearly over so the focus is moving onto winter training, building second A and B rigs for the VISS and getting to grips with my transfer away from Futaba and Spectrum transmitters to Radiomaster. I love the new sails that came with the VISS. The latest cloth is a great improvement and it is easy to reduce any creases caused by contacts to a barely noticeable. I am getting used to the boat slowly and have to say it is a different beast to sail than the Proteus.

This is a test article for Yachts and yachting.   Datchet Radio Sailing are hosting the biggest event of the radio sailing world in May next year, the IOM World championships.  Competitors from 20 plus countries will participate and the spectacle of the best in the world racing is not to be missed.  This is the first of a series of articles that provides background on the sport in the build up to the event.    There are some in sailing who regard radio sailing as sailing toy

As one of the organisers for next years worlds, I would like to ask if any of you reading this would like to volunteer for a day, a few days or the whole event. We have a healthy number of volunteers but it would be really nice to have more so we can give people breaks to watch the best skippers in the world fight it out on the water. There are plenty of roles. Here are a few: Equipment inspection Powerboat duty - if you have a powerboat 2 qualification you would be most w

I have spent the last two years learning about designs, fin and bulb angles, rigs, transmitters and all things radio sailing, and whilst it was a great learning experience I have taken my eye off the ball on the basics of my sailing. A Marblehead meeting last weekend brought it home to me. I set the boat up with the swing rig, shut off the GISMO and just focussed on sailing. The wind was variable but reasonable in direction providing a wonderful course up and down in front

Woodspring is a difficult location to sail consistently well at. The winds were very light and shifty almost at random. One moment you were golden then the next you could be at the back of the fleet. On Saturday, Craig Richards could do no wrong. When he rounded the windward mark in the lead, a gentle breeze would send him away on his own. On Sunday it was Peter Stollery's turn. The rest of us could say we were robbed but sadly the same people came out in front. For me

Supposing I told you that there was a way to accurately adjust the sheeting set up on any boat when your boat is out on the water....

I attended the Clive Hand Memorial trophy at Lincoln Radio sailing club which I have to say was so well worth attending in spite of a...

I find sailing radio boats fascinating. One day you can sail like a god, avoiding trouble going the right way and delivering results. ...

As the saying goes, "Every day I am getting better and better". The pop up open meeting at Lincoln was a great success with a report of...

Given the interest in the Proteus design I thought it might help if I shared some of the learnings from two boat tuning with Craig...

Lincoln put on a magnicant show for the 13 boats that turned up. The race report is on MYA downwind so I will not bore you with the...

My first opportunity for racing the VISS was at Gosport, where I sailed regularly with the Proteus so it is a good place to try and get...

The first outing in the VISS

A simple burgee for seeing the wind

Testing the Proteus

Honesty is the best policy, so a summary of the last couple of events (IOM ranking,13 and 8 and DFTT 2nd and 1st) reads like this. ...

So this weekend marks the turning point for worlds qualification. 3 ranking events down, 4 to go. It will be an interesting weekend's...

If you are Craig Richards then the Proteus is fast enough. He won with consumate ease. As for me, my boat sprung a leak and was...

Sailing, at its core, is a sport of precision, tactics, and—crucially—fair play. Yet within club racing, an odd contradiction often...

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