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...

Whatever you think about the DF design, it provides serious one design racing as was proved at Eastbourne las weekend. We were led by the...

Picture courtesy of my Son.

With the two new boats commissioning done, it is time for practice and working both boats up. There is a Marblehead Games event this...

Last weekend, I was the race officer for the first time at Datchet for the 10 Rater National Championships. In my favour, there were...

It s been a bit of a mediocre year for me. Yes I have done well in the DF65 and 95 events, one design at its best, but have struggled...

There was a time when I raced a boat which was fast, held a good lane of a start line and delivered results. Since November when I first...

I could not help myself but to note the designs entered into the above event. Here is the table of design and no of entries per design....

The last job was to bring the fin and bulb up to weight. I needed 16gms in the bulb. As luck would have it there was a hole in the bulb...

So having recovered some of the performance at Emsworth yesterday, the last critical piece for me was to get the bulb a little forward so...