Radio and Free Sailing in the UK
Our sport can be split in to 2 disciplines, Radio Sailing and Free Sailing and although both are still popular it is Radio Sailing that can be most easily found on a lake or water near you.
Today’s yachts range from home built yachts whose owners get great pleasure from the building process, collectors and restorers who through their efforts keep the history and knowledge in our sport, to the top end competitive skippers who race their carbon fibre and kevlar boats at local, national and international level.
Whatever level you wish to be involved there are people who will share your passion and commitment.
Interested?
Why not check out the rest of our site and use the club list to find a club near to you, make yourself known and talk to a skipper, most are more than willing to discuss our sport and even let you have a go.
The Model Yachting Association (MYA) is the representative body for Radio and Free sailing in the UK and has been delegated responsibility for the administration of Radio & Free Sailing within the UK. We are affiliated to, and recognised by, the Royal Yachting Association and the International Radio Sailing Association (IRSA) providing direct links to World Sailing and enabling us to have influence on the rules governing our sport.
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Sunday the 17th March saw the first of Fleetwood’s 2024 IOM Open events, the annual Mayoral Cup.
With a few late entries and cancellations, it saw a total of 8 visitors from around the country welcomed and joined by 10 local Fleetwood skippers in the clubhouse.
The morning started with grey skies and almost no breeze. What little there was came from the South/SSE direction swirling over the houses, grass banking and the car park with notable flat spots across the lake. The PRO, Shaun Holbeche, and his lakeside assistants plus intrepid boatman with Bob Jolley on the keyboard had virtually no choice but to set a reaching start from the clubhouse end of the lake - up about three quarters of the lake to a gate before zig-zagging across the lake to try and produce some beats during the races. Waterproofs, rig covers and “A” rigs were the standard requirement for starting.
Two of the very strong Birkenhead based group of skippers managed to find sources of constant pressure of wind most of the fleet were unable to find with Brad Gibson and his new design doing better than anyone but chased hard by Graham Elliot. Third across the line in the first race was Gordon Bayliff from the Fleetwood.
This set the tone for most of the morning’s sailing with Brad and Graham (Elliot) somewhat dominating the races with various other skippers appearing in the top five but also lower in the rankings as it was easy to find a calm part of the lake and the various different paths tried to try and find some wind produced rather variable results. As the races progressed Derek Priestley and the visitors Peter Baldwin (Birkenhead) and Dorian Crease (Datchet) eased out of the pack with more consistent results. Dorian in particular got to grips with sailing at Fleetwood, improved his results as the day progressed and notably was the only one who managed two race wins with the rest belonging to Brad.
In the late morning things started to warm up and most waterproofs were dispensed with but we unfortunately lost Mark Butler (Fleetwood) to a winch problem before the PRO called for a lunch break after 8 races.
During lunch the wind got stronger and swung closer to South West and the sun appeared. With the wind blowing almost down the lake this allowed the PRO and Boatman to reset the course with a traditional upwind first leg run diagonally across the lake.
The wind direction and strength, significantly higher up in the A rigs range, gave the visitors a taste of just how good Fleetwood can be for racing compared to the somewhat frustrating start to the day.
Brad and Graham continued where they left off in the morning at/near the front with Dorian catching up to Peter and Derek overall as the day progressed. The occasional shift causing some serious place changes on the upwind legs.
The rest of the Fleetwood "pack" continued their close battles with Mark Rose, Olly Murray, Peter Iles, Paul Middleton and Graham Butler joining Gordon with spells near the front. The stronger conditions in the afternoon gave these skippers a bit of an advantage over the visitors with Graham Marsh and David Stuart (Ashton Quays), Terry Reed (South Lakes) and John Crix (Eastbourne) plus local Tony Wilson battling to get into this mid-fleet pack consistently.
The final race ended up pivotally for Dorian who managed to pip Derek by a few places resulting with a one point advantage overall to record a well-deserved third place with Graham (Elliot) in second with Brad winning with what was called a “miserly 12 points from 14 races” during the prize giving.
Brad kindly thanked the race team and the Fleetwood club before everyone departed.
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