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IOM Craig Richards Proteus 5213. Design version was from mid 2025 and the boat printed by Craig himself and assembled and finished by me. Superbly balanced and quick. I sailed this for a short while before migrating back to a production boat. Photos show all the detail of the boat. Price £1200 Includes: Robot fin and bulb in excellent conditions, see photo. John Gill Rudder in excellent condition Little used Red ant rudder servo and carbon rod connector to tiller Little used Stinger winch with spiral drum BG A and B rigs both in excellent condition and a ton of life left in them Unused Sailboat RC sails on C rig No receiver, battery (XT30 connector) or transmitter. Who would I recommend this boat for: Any club sailor Anyone looking to get into the class with a competitive boat. Anyone printing a new Proteus (without rigs) who would like to get on the water fast and then transfer rigs and fittings to the new boat. All the rigs were re checked and tuned for balance at Frensham last week. The boat is ready to go and sails dry. Contact Nigel Barrow by email nbarrow50@gmail,com

Almost there!! Radio A Nationals currently stands at 27 entries. Just another 3 needed to make the magic 30!! Can we do it?? Here's hoping!!

Recently, I noticed that my Google web site has added a new AI feature that will change a pdf article into a pod cast. The result can be quite amusing. Some hyperbole and some inappropriate analogies. I post this so you may share a chuckle. AI has a long way to go! Here is the link to the google pod cast of my chapter 2 on the Start. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVa3comzPFX898CbWGAf957uGl1DP9kZ/view?usp=sharing The source article is here https://sites.google.com/site/johnsrcsailingrulesandtactics/ and see Chapter 2 The Start. John

Yes, does seem an odd situation. Someone inexperienced thinking they can tack onto starboard at inches' notice would be one thing, but onto port?

Cat Components and CatSails are two companies in the radio sailing world. CatSails focuses on high-performance custom sails and accessories. Cat Components provides lightweight, 3D-printed rig parts. Together, they offer a complete product portfolio for model yacht racers. But are they the same companyThere is a simple answer to this, No. Despite having similar names and logos they are two celebrate business, run, owned and operated independently. How It StartedNigel Brown set up CatSails in 2005 after he left his full time roles working as a sailmaker for various Americas Cup teams around the globe. CatSails has become the premier worldwide supplier of sails and accessories for many classes including the International One Meter (IOM), DragonForce65 (DF65, DragonFlite 95 (DF95), Micro Magic and many custom designs, supplying sails and performance accessories to multiple World and National Champions. In 2025, Nigel and Wayne Stobbs were building radio sailboats together. They had trouble finding good parts at reasonable prices for their boats, whether the IOOM (International One Meter) class, A Class or their current passion, Vintage Marblehead's, so they decided to design and 3D-print their own pieces. Other people soon got to hear about this and wanted to get their hands on the parts and so Nigel and Wayne made their product range available on www.catsails.co.uk. Worldwide demand for the items and components started to grow and so it was decided that Wayne should set up CatComponents, leaving CatSails to continue to focus on their traditional market, sails and accessories. So Cat Components was founded, using the CatSails logo and "Cat" name in homage to the team at Catsails who helped get the business off the ground. The Perfect PartnershipBuilding a fast model sailboat takes more than just a great sail. It also needs strong, light parts to hold the mast and control the rigging. CatSails make the custom sails. Nigels history in the sport of sailing, his technical understanding of how sails work, construction techniques and attention to detail make him the perfect sailmaker for the radio sailing community. Cat Components makes the Rig Components, sail marking stencils, start countdown systems and much more. Wayne's ability to understand peoples needs and turn them into products that as affordable, light and most importantly, readily available is what sets Cat Components apart from other suppliers. Better Gear for YouThink of your model boat as a car. The sail is the engine. The rig components are the frame and wheels. You need both to work as a team. Because Wayne and Nigel work closely together, the parts from Cat Components are made to fit perfectly with the sails from CatSails. This gives you a fast, smooth, and easy sailing experience on the water. For anything sail related please reach out to Nigel and Sue at CatSails. For Components, Stencils etc, Please contact Wayne at Cat Components

Second thoughts - my answer above covers the mechanics of the incident - how to get there and how to score it, but what is the cause? what is the real issue? Does this skipper not understand the rules? Does he need some help and coaching? Or is this a recurring and complete disregard for the Corinthian spirit of racing and a willingness to respect the rules and the rights of other competitors? If yes, then a last resort - a PC may want to consider an R 69 hearing. John

I think that it would take a protest committee to upgrade the offense to breaking R 2 Fair Sailing to be able to upgrade from DSQ to DNE. The PC would need to find that repeated breaking of the (same) rules met the standard of R2. John

This happened just after the start at the left hand pin 6 boats crossed the line on starboard on each others hip when the second from leeward boat just tacked on to port and caused a pile up of several boats, this boat did it on several starts, should it be given DNE on the result sheet? I beleive it broke Rule 10, 13 and 14?

Many thanks to all those kind A class owners who are making their boats available to make this event a success.

Switched out from the sails this morning to start the production of some of our quality accessories - IOM and DF95 boatbags, foils bags, transmitter snugs and rigbags ( not in the picture)

Now up to 26 radio A's and 18 Vane A's Fleetwood is waiting to welcome you all to 9 days of A's !!

We have a credit card sized membership card, issued yearly, but double the width. It is then folded in half to be the right size. Members are given a lanyard and clear cover. On the outside front is member name and club number. On the outside back is our lock numbers. The inside has space for Member Address, Emergency Contact details, Medical details and Medication and what3words for the main gate for emergency services, our lake is off the beaten track and mobile service is minimal. Members are expected to carry the card at the lake having completed the inside private info. As the card is held inside the cover the only time the private info would be seen is in an emergency when it is taken out the cover. The club then has no need to keep the private data, if it is held then regular audits need to be made to update and delete as necessary. Blank card can then be issued to visitors.

Sounds dull! And it might be, but let’s have a go… with a new idea Emergncy contact numbers for people in your club, essential as we are an aging membership in general and in the event of an incident, contact with relatives etc is vital for their / our support. Solution… we write our numbers down, stored on a sheet in race box for ease of access and sheet goes missing … lost! Or… we don’t do that Steve we store it on line, and then if we need it we draw it down from online server, ok but how many people have access to that data and are they always there One idea We hold our own data,at club and regional events, our responsibility but no data no sail. Stored on a small card, waterproofed in plastic wallet, stuck words facing the underside of radio. So in an emergency, turn them over and turn their radio over! At open meetings, show up with your £10 plus radio to show organisers your card on bottom of transmitter. Advantages You keep it up to data via numbers, medical information and it is private till needed. Less data for club to hold in accessible format Worth trying?

23 entered for Saturday ! 17 for Sunday (expecting one more to enter very soon for Sunday) Great conditions still forecast and with the high quality entry, we should have a great weekend ahead !

Used C main and jib wanted for potential use for 3/4 months until my new suit arrives. Any useable set considered. Call Gordon at UK 07772795657 with details.

Forecast looking good nice day with decent stable breeze this coming weekend. Currently entry is 18 for Saturday and 16 for Sunday Can we get over 20 before the entry closes on Thursday evening?

Just like to announce there’s 24 radio A class entered so far! the closing date is the 18th July will we make it to 30 radio A boats like gosport did 3 years ago for the 100 year anniversary? so if your thinking about doing it at Fleetwood Model Yacht Club Wembley of radio racing! get your entries in you won’t be disappointed! There is a few members that want to do the nationals but dont have a boat so if you like to charter your one please get in contact with me Thankyou Olly Murray (A class captain)

And a very good thought it is too!

Why not do a "manual" calc on the way you want to do discards and hence average score, and then GO BACK to the individual race and manually enter that value under "Redress..RO Awards points" Just a thought

This has now been looked at again, and results re-entered. The outcome seems to be satisfactory, but it does put an emphasis on the RO completing all races (any retirement/malfunction will adversely affect the RO as the average is calculated before discards come into effect, rather than discarding the retirement before averaging out). As John pointed out. Thank you for your contributions. We are learning!

Remember that HMS and Afleet treat the 1st race as a seeding race unless told otherwise - so assuming that you have set to single fleet so that seeding is not active, all races should be counted and the last time I checked, HMS and Afleet both compute AVG including all finishes - they don't do the discards and then compute the AVG of the remaining races. Once they have computed your AVG, then they apply the discards to compute your score. I assume this was a race management decision when HMS was created. Also a comment, for 7 races there is only 1 discard. The second discard is after race 8. John

Well as I say, Average Redress under the HMS system could well give summat 'unexpected' on the first race. If you can, you could try creating a different scenario and see what it comes up with - if you put yourself 'as RO' in the 2nd one rather than the 1st, does that change the outcome? At LRSC we award average points for someone doing Duty rather than competing, but it's averaged across whole (6-8 Sundays) not the average up until that date. (And its a spreadsheet written to our Club's Series rules, not HMS or A Fleet - for the series overall)

It’s across 7 races in a weekly event, making up a 9 event series. I was really trialling the RO role and went into A Fleet to see what it said about average points. I think I went in via Redress. I’m not very tech savvy but seem to have landed on something that I would describe as unsatisfactory and unlikely to entice others into taking on the RO role

Is that 7 days across a series, or 7 actual races (heats) on a day? We give average (series) points to members who help at an open event which is also a Club round. HMS - which A Fleet appears to have as a built-in mode - allows for Redress Average Score. BUT, that gives you the average of prior races/heats - if it's given in the first one then it doesn't help as much as might be expected. But if your club is using A Fleet, then you're kinda accepting its algorithms as your SI ....

We are a relatively small club and use A Fleet for our race results. However, as our numbers are growing, I decided to act as RO in the first of 7 races to see how the average points worked out (for future reference). A Fleet took all 6 of my results and averaged them to produce a score for me in race 1. It did not allow me a discard before averaging. Other competitors had 2 discards over the 7 races, I had none - which seemed a little unfair. Is there a way of setting things up so that RO averages are worked out to allow discard(s)? Any guidance appreciated David