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It's a wrap. Envelopes opened, all points calculated and confirmed in the presence of 2 independent witnesses. Obviously most had BG in 1st position, except for one entry, guess who, followed by RW, CR and PS, not necessarily in that order I may add ,but Josh sort of spoilt that party. Thanks to everyone that participated in a bit of fun, we will do it again for the Worlds, top 10 though. RESULTS....... VICKY..........13 POINTS GRAHAM.....12 POINTS ANDREA......12 POINTS JIM L R.........11POINTS MICKYBOY....10 POINTS TRACEY.........10 POINTS HARRY............9 DARIN.............9 JOSH...............9 WALSHY..........9 BRAD...............9 PRESIDENT.....8 JIM E...............8 ROB Mc...........8 Tiger................8 1 spoilt paper. Well done Vicky, spend it wisely with any radio sailing manufacturer in the UK.

TIME TO REVIVE THE CHAMPION’S CUP? Back in the 1970’s David Hollom, donated the “Champions Cup” for competition amongst the class Champions in Radio sailing. . Invitations were initially extended to all National & District Champions and later when the Ranking lists were introduced ther were used to select the invitees. The event held over 2 days with day 1, 2 boat Match racing, and day 2 fleet racing and the scores combined to find the winner. Initially the Marblehead was used successfully for many years, and later the event was sailed in the IOM class. Interest from sailors fell away, and the event has not been held for several years. Readers of the Yachts & Yachting website will have seen the report of the recently held Endeavour Trophy, (Champion of Champions) in the Dinghy world. This annual invitation only event was held as usual at the Burnham on Crouch YC and for the first time for several years, all boats were supplied and were all the same Melges 15 Dinghys. None of the Champion entrants had the chance to sail the boats before the Friday of the event. It occurred to me that we in the radio sailing world could attempt to revive our “Champions Cup” by adapting a similar approach using one of our “out of the box” classes, Laser, DF95 or the new up coming IOM “Mint” from Joysway. So is now the time to bring this once very popular event back?

Ten Rater Yacht This yacht was built in the 1975 era, it is very similar to a well known yacht called a “Cracker” by J.Lewis. It has a fibreglass hull with varnished (not cracked) wood decking. A full size plan with sail dimensions for the Cracker is provided together with Model Boats magazine May 1971 with an article on the Cracker. The yacht measures LOA 78” x 9.5” beam, draught is15” and the sail height is 81”. The sails & mast easily detatch and the mast support forms a carrying handle. Fully fitted sail set by House Martin is supplied. The “original” sails 70” high are supplied (without mast & boom). The winch and rudder servo are fully working and yacht requires a receiver and battery to be fitted plus a bit of tlc.. Collection only from Leatherhead KT21 2LR ( 5 minutes from Jct.9 on M25 ). £ 300 ono. Contact roger_everitt@yahoo.com for photo’s etc.

Good idea Derek👍 A great concept introduced by Dave H long before my time here that I enjoyed competing in. For reasons you mention it could never be a true reflection of a Champions Cup due to the top skippers in the class used holding a significant advantage over invited skippers possibly not familiar with that class. I made the suggestion many years ago that the RC Laser be used as it would take the largest number of ‘Champions’ out of their comfort zone much like the Endeavour event. The event would be held over an MYA AGM weekend at a suitable venue that bought a full weekend of activities including tuning seminars, trade show, class test sailing, an evening dinner with MYA yearly presentations to national champions and a Champion of Champions for those that come along to enjoy the weekend to take a look at. There were a good number of reasons offered as to why the idea could never work….. A good opportunity to bring skippers from all classes together for a weekend with a Sunday AM AGM.

Hi Mike The view of the hull upside down reminds me of my first venture into scratch building a 36, the plan was from Marine Modeller around the year 1991.

Its possibly a Marine Modelling magazine plan for the Twister 36R, vane or radio. There is nearly always a plan for sale on ebay.

Pringle (US1m) Project Launch At last, today we finally launched my new design Pringle (US1m). It is my design introduction to the class after 7 years of development. Read more at the link: HERE

Dimensions would help to identify it but its certainly not a Marblehead.

The Vintage Model Yacht Group are a good source of help and information on old models. You could try emailing the Secretary at vmyg.secretary@btinternet.com or the Chairman at Martinbandey@aol.com

Great rig measurements doc arrived via email from red ant, and much better that version 1, clearer explanation. See if it goes any better…..

Buy a BritPOP! 🤣

My phone is android and the picture hanging feature is in a 'toolbag' app that came with the phone. Must be many similar apps readily available.