On Sunday I had the pleasure to sail with the Gladstone radio sailing club. Such a friendly bunch and very good sailors. The venue is one...

The journey to the worlds begins. We left early for Heathrow to avoid the rush hour and met a little traffic on the M3.   My bag and boat...

22 hours in the air awaits with breaks at Dubai and Brisbane. Fingers crossed the boat box and bag get there. Departure at 9pm tonight...

It’s been a while since I posted a blog. All is well, I just have not had the time to post anything or have anything meaningfull to say....

Readers of the web site will have worked out I am goal and process oriented. The easy bit is to sort out the process. The hard task is...

It is funny how some days you can have pace to keep ahead and other days you are just off the pace . In light weather I definitely had...

I was sailing at Emsworth Slipper Lake last night and had a big lesson in poor rig set up. It was a curious evening with our launch area...

First of all thank you to all those who bought me a coffee. Your contributions make a big difference to the longevity of the web. It is...

A brilliant 6 hours training at Datchet, first match racing with Craig Richards for a couple of hours and then another 4 hours of 3 boat...

One of the joys of sailing radio yachts is there is always something to do. This week I looked at buying a sail bag so I could safely...

There was one annoying feature of my Alioth setup in that the fin was raked back noticably compared to other boats so I could achieve...

As the nationals were cancelled last weekend, I found some competitive club racing to get involved with. See video below. One of the...

Peter very kindly sent me the details of his magic box for transporting my IOM and rigs on a plane to Australia. The box is easy to...

I want to say a huge thank you to the Fleetwood team led by Bob Jolly and Derek Priestley. They know how to put on a great show and...

I received the news from the Commodore of Frensham Pond Sailing Club that one of our own regular radio sailing friends was taken from us...

I had a great day down at Gosport today. The wind was shifty and the course a bit one sided but it was a great test of how to avoid...

First of all thank you to those who bought me a coffee in the last month. We are still some way off covering the next three years web...

I had a couple of questions on my last post which I thought best to answer with another post Lets start with the Corex rig box. There is...

I have settled on the Alioth IOM, F6 Marblehead and two DF boats. Everything else is sold so there is no going back for better or worse....

As some have commented, I seem to have done a lot of fiddling and moved away from Juan's published set up notes, however as I said, my...