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If you click on the link in the channel description you get taken to a proprietary link which requires login and needs your credit card for 'validation'. Not handing my credit card details to some random website. Not impressed. Always thought that the Gladstone Worlds coverage would take some beating and Datchet seem to have failed from the get go for me. Perhaps someone can explain?

Nothing 'live' yet! If you got onto Facebook and search for IOM World Championship 2026 you will get about 2 minutes of recorded 'testing' before the boats are called off the water prior to the first seeding race starting at 10am. Nothing 'live' after that so far and the YouTube channel currently shows 'No Content'. I had heard that there might be a 'highlights' show later in the day at some point rather than live video but your guess is as good as mine!

What am I missing? No videos, something is trying to get me to sign up for a vpn. Is it me?

Measuring from 9.20 this morning… the team must be exhausted. And more tomorrow And from the bank all looks great, grab a space to come and view a great event,

Action starts on Sunday 17th, with build up on site from today. All the results, reports and media can be found via the event website. www.iomworlds2026.com

Is the slimtel still for sale? Peter KNIGHTLEY 07835912226 Plymouth

Britpop IOM. Hull No 3567, built by Robot Yachts, light blue hull with silver fin and rudder and a light blue bulb RedAnt Winch JX Digital Rudder Servo Futaba T6K Transmitter and receiver Stand and carry frame Wooden sail box TX cover A rig with Brad Gibson sails (shown on the boat) A, B and C rig with Graham Bantock Sailsetc sails (shown in the sail box) Unused Brad Gibson B sails, Main and Jib with boom (photo) Unused Brad Gibson C sails, Main and Jib with boom (photo) Used BG A Jib Used SailsEtc A Sails, Main and Jib Spare Fin and Bulb 2x Overlander 2000mah TX battery packs and charger. Battery Tester 3x 5 cell Overlander Tornado 1600mah Boat batteries and charger Unused Futaba S3014 Rudder Servo still in original box Spare shrouds and C rig gooseneck. Certificate is missing but the boat is registered and measured on 24th Jan 2013. The new owner will receive the certificate from the registrar on request. The boat is in Portsmouth, Hampshire. £1950 Phone Richard 07811 000 752

Boat number 1381 little used in recent years. Model - Sweet 3, Hull and appendages by PJ Sails 2 Suits of No 1 and No 2 Sails, 1 No 3 Main Transmitter and receiver £525 Contact Lawrie Draper on 01794 390181 Radio A Class Yacht for Sale.docx

Yes - I removed the sail and measured the current bend 15mm to centre line of the mast, does look to be all in the last 150mm top of the mast. Luckly I also have another A-Rig on my other boat, same sail maker and the sail maker is also from our club so will check with him. Many thanks for replying

Surely the prebend is removed by putting tension on the back stay. If it still doesn’t match the luff curve of the sail then it’s the position of the prebend rather than the amount. The sailmaker should be able to tell you where to put it.

If you search for “Bow Bumper” on the Sailsetc website there are detailed recommendations on what to use and how to do it. https://www.sailsetc2.com/index.php/bow-bumper.html

A high modulus silicon..

What is your best glue recommendation for putting a bow bumper back onto a glass IOM?

Hi John949, Yes See R 14. Avoid Contact - and then if you think a rule has been broken, protest. John

I have recently bought another IOM with 2 A rigs but the one with a new sail on does not set correctly (from the previous owner) due to too much prebend. We are going to correct this on Wednesday what amount of prebend? The mast is a normal 11mm dia black mast, Graphite sails sail on a Vision IOM.

ALTERNATIVE IOM 4735, with Certificate, competitive boat wining several club race series. Designed by Brad Gibson. Moulded hull painted with the excellent Epifanes two part paint. David Creed fin, ballast and rudder. A rig with Sailboat RC sails, B and C rigs with PJ sails, PJ sail winch. PSN will be removed. Spare deck patches and templates. Radio, receiver and stand NOT included. Based in Dorset, but will discuss possible delivery arrangements. £1300

Note that the term 'full & by' was dropped from the RRS many many years ago - replaced by 'close hauled course' Oops, showing my age. Still I do know that the "overtaking boat keeps clear" rule was dropped equally long ago (unlike a lot of people it seems). It is one of the (many) difficulties of Radio Sailing that judging "proper course" when sailing perpendicular to the observer is not easy. My understanding is that if you get overlapped to leeward you are required to keep clear and protest afterwards (if you believe the leeward boat is sailing above her proper course) - not ignore the leeward boat and watch the boats raft up.

Thanks Derek. I did find this on YouTude, which is a help https://youtu.be/tGsTGVfTSSA?si=xdiur-Y0T60bBdB-

I already told Norman it's a KLUG, made in Germany in the 1970's They also made a Marblehead (Gibli) and a 10r but I can't remember the name. Nice to see that you' ve got it together.

Hi RoRo, I suggest you look in the WS Case Book and share with your fellow sailors. Look at cases 15 and especially Case 27 for applying R 13. Case 27 is exactly the described issue. Rule 13, While Tacking CASE 15 In tacking to round a mark, a boat clear ahead must comply with rule 13; a boat clear astern is entitled to hold her course and thereby prevent the other from tacking. CASE 27 A boat is not required to anticipate that another boat will break a rule. When a boat acquires right of way as a result of her own actions, the other boat is entitled to room to keep clear. Also for R 15 see Case 81 however that is a marks to stbd scenario. CASE 81 When a boat entitled to mark-room under rule 18.2(a)(2) passes head to wind, rule 18.2(a)(2) ceases to apply and she must comply with the applicable rule of Section A. John

This happened to me at the weekend and the boat involved refused to do a turn and just said l was on starboard. At club level the argument is not worth the trouble but how do we sort this at an event especially with a he said she said?

Hi Colin et al, I cover the subject of boats tacking at the stbd lay line on my web site - scroll to the bottom and look for my Appendix C When is 'tacking too close' too close? John

Obligation to give time and room to keep clear does seem to get 'forgotten', esp. at windward marks. And, with the tacking aspect, can get 'subjective'. Often worthwhile, I think, even if you are going to complete your tack in adequate time, to let the other boat know. Unless in a title-deciding match race, then a collision is likely to disadvantage both (or more)....

Hi John949 what you are describing is a clear breach of R 13. In addition, as ROW has changed, R 15 also applies briefly and the port tack boat must be given room to keep clear once STBD reaches close hauled course. Note that the term 'full & by' was dropped from the RRS many many years ago - replaced by 'close hauled course' John

Or they will generously warn you that they are "Tacking", as if that absolves them of the fact that they are tacking in your water or into you!