Model Yacht Racing – The future ??

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Although I spend a lot of time in the workshop 🙂 my primary activity at the lake is sailing almost ready to sail model yachts, this is very popular at both the clubs I belong too, The Cygnets at Mote Park Maidstone have monthly racing which I did this morning and did all right with my Victoria & DF 95 :-), the Chantry Club at Bluewater race on a fortnightly basis which is great fun with minimum rules everybody has a go and it’s quite competitive, but light hearted.

I occurred to me the Dragon Force 65 and Dragon Flite 95 maybe the the future for model boat clubs with the reduction in scale models being built and run , now boat ownership is most popular rather than building ?

My racing boats in the garden this afternoon after a sailing session this morning for a rinse and dry off in the sun, lots of folk say I haven’t the room !! but mine live on brackets in the vacant area above my stairs out of harm’s way 🙂

I thought this was worth sharing to diversify the forum interests ?

The OM1 yacht is an old Graham Bantock design picked up for £100

Regards Ray

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Sounds good Ray, informal club racing and enjoyable.

As far as the more serious yacht racing is concerned, Paul Freshney made considerable efforts in his last years as Editor to persuade the MYA people to contribute to the magazine to pubicise this aspect of the hobby but there was very little interest on the part of MYA members. There were a few articles but they quickly petered out. Much the same with the MPBA speed merchants. There have been a few contributions since Lindsey took over but it would seem that the competition modellers don’t see the magazine as relevant these days. It was very different in day gone by!

Colin

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