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June 1979 45p f OAS.A. & Canada $2.00) \ \ \ HOBBY MALS. MAGAZINE \ Model Yacht Association News and Views have certainly found plenty ofbreeze. Left, the Duplex 575s first National event had to be called off in near gale conditions; even the ‘pocket handkerchief’ suits were too much. Woodley Open, see ‘Round the f provided 26 mph squalls, one of which caused these U – boat antics. Photo by Brian Sheldrake. R EGRETTABLY, once again the Naviga European Sailing Championships and the IMYRU World R/C Yacht Championships clash in 1980; details of the Naviga meeting recently received show that it is being held in Hungary from July 25 to Aug. 1. Member countries can send four entrants for the free-sailing events and three for each of the R/C classes, plus junior (under 16) entries. The site is the Csonakazo-See, a lake 6km from the centre of Nagykanizsa, which is in the south west of Hungary, close to the border with Yugoslavia and only a short distance from the S.E. corner of Austria; Vienna is 260km away. The lake is from 13 to 4m depth, about 18-20°C temperature, and the prevailing wind is NNW 1-4m/sec (say 2-8mph). August temperatures are around 22-25°C (71-77°F). Accommodation for competitors is offered in three-bed college rooms in the town centre, from lunch on July 25 to breakfast Aug 2 (8 nights), three meals a day without drinks, for $120, near enough £60, which includes the final evening’s banquet. Some team supporters may be able to be accommodated if applications are in by April 1 1980. Other visitors can obtain accommodation details from the local tourist office, Nagykanizsai Idegenforgalmi lroda, H-8800, Nagykanizsa, Lenin ut 13. Reception and registration starts at 2pm on July 25 and continues on the 26th, with facilities for practice. An opening ceremony on the 27th is followed by the start of the racing at 2pm, which then continues daily 9am-7pm (with 13hr lunch break) till the 31st and finishes at noon on Aug 1. Permitted frequencies are 27 and 40.68mHz. All necessary documentation can be collected at the Naviga Championships at Duisburg this August, but queries can be dealt with by the host organisation, Magyar Modellezo ‘Szovetseg, 1374 Budapest, Rosenberg Lazaspur utca 1. French RM International Following a highly successful RM International at Creteil last October, the Arc en Ciel MYC are organising another for Sept. 22/23 1979, also at the Creteil lake, and hope that some British skippers will find their way there. The lake is about 10km out of Paris, in the S.E. suburbs, and a very friendly and warm welcome can be anticipated by all skippers and supporters. IMYRU rules, unlimited entries, but closing date the end of June. Details and entry forms from Mons. Lhuiziere, 5 rue du General Leclerc, 94000 Creteil, France. Frank Walker We regret to announce the death on March 18 of Frank Walker, aged 76, after a brief illness. Frank, appointed a Vice President of the MYA at last December’s general meeting, had been active in R/C yachting almost since its inception, initially in the Poole club but subsequently on a wider scale; a good many boats owe their fittings and accessories to his skills, and his readiness to help fellow model yachtsmen was an example to us all. In the early days of multiple yacht racing some difficulty was experienced in establ- ishing satisfactory schedules, and Frank, a perfectionist, quietly 356 devoted many hours to improving them, to the point where he became the accepted reference on the subject. His “magnum opus” was undoubtedly the heat system he worked out for the first major international meeting in 1975, where the previously unheard of total of 56 RM and 37 R10R yachts were comfortably accommodated; his system was repeated for the 42-boat 1978 British RM Championships and the 1978 International Championships in South Africa. His loss will be felt not only in the Poole and Gosport clubs, but by all model yachtsmen, on whose behalf we extend sympathy to his widow and family. Changes The registrar for the M and RM classes is now John Foster, 22 Westwood Road, Bermerton Heath, Salisbury, Wilts. Secretary of Basildon MYC is now G. J. Bantock, 30 Winstree Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex (914-783-890), and of Birmingham MYC W. Akers, 38 Cotysmore Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B75 6BL. R/C Sailing Rules We are asked to point out that David Skelton’s letter about racing rules (April issue) was directed at the comments made by Roy Stevens (January issue) and not at Woodspring Model Sailing Club. Fixture List The compilation of a fixture list is something of an onerous task, since many clubs do not arrange their programmes sufficiently early. Possibly this is due to a tendency to wait to see where a clear week-end falls, or hanging on to discuss the matter at a District meeting. Now, the dates and venues for Nationals are pretty well tied up at the May Council meeting of the preceding year, and most Districts have a major meeting before the MYA AGM. Is it not possible for more clubs (a// clubs) to have their programmes decided by the date of the AGM? Other associations manage it. The only reason that this is brought up is that the MYA Sec. sent out fixture lists by the end of March, which was on schedule and as early as they’ve ever been, but this doesn’t mean that every club member saw them. A surprising number rely on the list published in MB, and by the time it can appear, almost a third of the regattas are history and there is no point in publishing them. An alternative is for the keen club to notify direct either the Editor, or your Corres- pondent, of any open races in March, April and May, as soon as they are decided on. This might increase entries, and at the very least it’s a form of advertising that the club is active. Pickett’s Lock Following the immortal Taylor saga of a year or two back, the London Dinghy Exhibition tends to be called ‘‘Pickett’s Lock” instead of its proper title! Be that as it may, the MYA was there with a fine display of vane and radio boats and back-up material with (mirabile ditu) a reasonable manning level for most of the two-day Model Boats show. An innovation was a guess-the-finished-weight competition involving the indefatigable Roger Stollery, who has laid on the whole thing, beginning construction of a Pick-axe kit at 10am on the Saturday, with the intention of sailing it on the swimming pool on Sunday afternoon before presentation of the boat (less radio) to the winning estimator. Roger in fact achieved his target and the boat was duly sailed at about 5pm on the Sunday; the whole thing attracted enormous interest and there should be anew member for the Portsmouth club, as the winner lives quite close to the Canoe Lake at Southsea. In fact there were four spot-on-estimates (from memory, it was 13lb 230z) and the only fair possibility was to draw from these four. As a PR exercise it was a stroke of genius and Roger is to be thanked for not only building the boat but presenting the kit in the first place. Crowds watched demonstrations of radio sailing on the small swimming pool and radio yachts were also used to demonstrate tactics. With this exhibition, the National Boat Show, and two or three full-size yachting magazines running articles on radio models, the standing of model yachting has never been higher. Model Yacht Association Fixtures — 1979 Date Event May 26th & 27th + Tamplin Cup & Curry Mug 26th to 28th MYA National Championship Nyria Cup 28th June Metropolitan & Southern District 3rd 3rd 3rd Sth & 10th 10th Championship Mayoral Cup Bolton Cup MYA National Championship Metropolitan & Southern District Championship 10th Victor Cup Metropolitan & Southern District Championship Eastern District Championship Northern District Team 17th 17th 17th 17th 23rd & 24th 24th 24th 24th Championship Andrew Memorial Cup MYA National Team Championship Peter Bryon Memorial Cup Hinds Cup Dennis Secker Shield Gosport Leeds & Bradford ‘RA’ & R10-R ‘RM’ ia bE S Clapham Fleetwood Bolton Birmingham 36R ‘M’ Hove & Brighton ‘A’ Leeds & Bradford 36R Woodley Basildon ‘RM’ ‘RM’ Leeds & Bradford Birkenhead ‘RM’ ‘M’ Birmingham Fleetwood S.E. Essex Dovercourt ‘M’ ‘RM’ ‘RM’ 10-R Futaba Medallion 2 dry+2 x 28m £49.50 £168.00 £150.00 Futaba 2 nicads 2 x 28m servos£107.00 Futaba 3 nicads 2 x 17m servos £148.50 Futaba switch harness Futaba transmitter aerial Futaba Servo head screws Futaba servo ‘T’ arms Sanwa custom 6 4 ball race servos Gosport Birkenhead Fleetwood ‘A’ ‘RA’ ‘A’ 8th 8th Sandylands Cup Fred Parks Cup Birkenhead Cleethorpes Rhyl Leeds & Bradford ‘M’ ‘M’ Fleetwood ‘RM’ ‘A’ ‘RM’ & R10-R Fleetwood ‘A Leeds & Bradford Open Event Flora Cup Lawrence Bowl LRC MS Event Leeds & Bradford North Liverpool Birmingham YM 6m OA ‘RA’ ‘M’ 36R ‘RA’ Midland District Championship Yorkshire Cash Registers Cup Eastern District Championship Northern District Championship Northern District Championship Birmingham Leeds & Bradford Broads Cleveland Leeds & Bradford ‘M’ 36R R10-R R10-R R10-R ‘A’ MYA National Championship Belton Cup Midland District Championship Rhuddlan Borough Cup 15th Rawdon Cup 15th 22nd to 27th MYA/Naviga Event 29th to Basildon Dovercourt Bournville MYA National Championship August 3rd _—s and Yachting Monthly Cup ‘RM’ August 5th 5th 11th 11th Eastern District Championship Northern District Championship 12th 12th 12th 12th 19th 19th ~ 19th 25th & 26th 36R MYA National Championship Dovercourt Birkenhead Bournville ‘RA’ ‘M’ ‘M’ ‘M’ 36R rN BARCLAYCARD Glolec 30 £13.50 Tube with bearings, medium £2.25 Radio hatch cover Quick release hatch clips (4) £1.95 Silicone tube 3” bore exhaust ft. £1.50 £10.85 £1.10 = ED carbs all sizes Glolec 27 £13.50 £12.80 ENGINES ; OFS 21 Marine inc. pipe Meteor 60 Marine Gear Mount KB21 or OPS 21. a bo ACCESSORIES Heavy duty flexi complete Normal flexi complete Electric flexi complete Puma 10cc Hunter 10cc Capri 3.5-6.5cc Mk II Jaguar 6.5cc Spare flexi with shaft H.D. Spare flexi with shaft, med. Spare flexi wire only, med. Teflon inner medium flexi £22.50 £28.50 £22.50 £19.00 60p Tube bearings heavy duty type (2) 65p_—_ We have taken over the distribution rights on these excellent hulls and can offer same day despatch. Price £16.00+£1.00 pp. Jumbo Jaguar 10cc £25.00 £23.00 Silicone tube 1 metre water £18.00 Meteor 40 Marine OPS 60 Ursus Marine HULLS ALPHA 20, ALPHA 40 8.30 Mini Jaguar 3.5cc Scorpion £66.00 £2.60 AW 40 marine (pp £1 -00) Peon Ose! 65 ine pipe (pp £1.50) £130.00 1op OFS 65 ese Eau, £119:50 A inp ENS». 18p £59.00 CFS SO Maine ines pine £269.00 8 WARWICK STREET, PRESTWICH ————__—Nr. MANCHESTER. Tel: 061-798 0655 = sii _ Open Monday-Saturday 9.30-6.00 ve Closed all day Wed. Late night Fri Futaba Medallion 4 dry 4 servos£99.50 eee Irvine 40 Marine Tiger 10cc Little Portugal Cup Northern District Championship Jones Cup 7th & 8th 8th 8th ‘RM’ 6M Wi C H RADIO servos 1st 1st ist Remainder of fixtures next issue. MODEL CENTRE Futaba 6+2 x 17m servos Futaba 6+2 x 28m servos July “A Gosport Birmingham Under-16 Junior Event 30th Class Broads Broads Open Event 10th Club £57.95 Tube bearings medium type (2) Sealed radio box with links Waterproof links Tijier arm double sided +,, thrust washers Rubber mount kit complete 3.5, 6.5 or 10cc Spare rubbers (4) plastic bases for rubbers (4) 60p_ Silicone tube 1 metre fuel Silicone tube }” bore exhaust ft £1.00 £3.78 — Silicone tube %sin bore exhaust ft. 80p 55p Silicone tube % bore exhaust ft. £1.20 65p —Kavan carbs all sizes 50p = Sullivan starter for boats Model Technics 80-20 straight fuel £4.95 £2.60 = Ezeglaze 80p_Triflon £48.95 Solid engine mount skeg £49.95 £2.40 £1.25 TUNED PIPES £42.85 £75.95 £1.45 RACING MODELS 3.5cc stainless £1.21 £2.75 £2.95 £3.40 £1.10 PMC 3.5ccstainless water cooled 6.5cc stainless water cooled 10cc stainless water cooled 35cc petrol tuned pipe £40.54 £19.75 Stainless rudder: small Large perial racing models Aerial spring loaded 2 pint tin fuel tank £9.25 3 pint tin fuel tank £8.95 4 pint tin fuel tank £7.95 = Tank fitting kit Spare engine coupling for flexi’s £1.10 £3.25 £2.90 £1.15 55p__ Ezebuild+(50p postage) Leather starting cord (ft) Trim tabs brass per pair Buoyancy foam (75p postage) Starter belts ‘ 30p £1.55 80p £1.49 6.5cc stainless _10cc stainless water cooled £17.95 £29.90 £3.00 £2.25 60p £11.95 £13.95 £14.95 £16.00 £18.00 £20.00 £32.00 50p = Special ‘super pipe’ stainless £1.53 water cooled tuned pipe for £2.95 Rossi 61, 65 rear ind. OPS 61, £1.00 65 rear ind. £26.50 MAIL ORDER SAME DAY SERVICE. CHARGES MIN. 25p. HULLS £1.00 UK. HULLS TO EUROPE £4.50 June 1979 357 Left, the first boat home in one of the heats at the Andover Sail-In has crossed the line, followed closely by two more and the final pair rounding the last mark. (Photo, C. Bowler). Above, Cliff Lucas’s winning ‘B’ class Jaguar/Webra 40 boat at speed during Wigan Multi-Race meeting. (Photo, B. Aldous). Early Season Reports Andover & District MBC ‘Sail-In’, 1st April, Foxcotte Lake Twenty-five skippers from the Cheltenham, Danson, Decoy, Fairford, Woodley and home clubs turned up for Andover and District Model Boat Club’s annual ‘Sail-In’ on Sunday 1st April. The event was organised using a schedule discussed as long ago as the Southern District AGM, and recently mentioned in Logbook for RMs. A total of 36 races was completed in six hours with each skipper sailing nine races. Recent gale force winds subsided leaving Sunday almost windless so that Andover members feared the day would again lack sufficient wind, as in previous years, to complete a full sailing schedule, but a good breeze built up by the start and provided excellent conditions. The fleet was split into four groups and each group sailed three races straight off. The four groups were then re-arranged according to scores and the scores discarded. The third re-arrangement saw the top skippers in one group, two groups with the less lucky skippers, and a fourth group for whom it was not their day. From the top group emerged the winners of the day to receive trophies. retained the M. J. Skene Rosebow/! for the highest lap score of the day by a Wigan MPBC member. Our thanks goes to all competitors who in spite of very bad road conditions, made journeys from Barrow, Glasgow, North Birmingham, Leeds and Birkenhead to make the day a successful one. RESULTS Positions Name Club Boat Engine Laps Birkenhead Nagari – 5971 Unlimited Electric 1st D. Wooley 2nd |. Shaw 3rd Birkenhead B. Milner Scorpion Birkenhead – Scorpion 51.4 – 50.3 ‘A’ Class 1st M. Allen 2nd Birkenhead A. McHugh Mini Jaguar Wigan K&B 21 3rd B. Warburton Mini Alpha Fiddlers Ferry K&B 21 Alpha 20 49 K&B 21 48.4 Webra 40 Pylon 50.1 “B’ Class 1st D. Townshend 2nd Danson T. Owens 1st C. Lucas A. C. Shaw Mk. Il Jaguar P. Freeman 2nd Wigan 3rd Danson J. Graham Opus G. Hoere 3rd N. Birmingham 4th Danson Decoy ‘C’ Class Birkenhead Cougar As a consolation the winners of the remaining groups received Easter Eggs, and they 1st 51 HP 40 57.1 HP 40 51.2 D. Jepson ‘SI’ Class Puma 60.5 Danson Leeds Webra 61 F D. Owens T. K. Wigglesworth Cougar 3rd group 4th group 3rd Wigan OS 60 FSR Woodley C. Lucas Cougar T. Croxon 2nd Leeds 2nd group Rossi 65 60.3 were: J. Hammond Cheltenham The ‘Grand Loser’ of the day, R. Barnet, of Andover received a clutch of small Easter Eggs. Most skippers’ comments appeared to be favourable regarding the new schedule. Racing was round a triangle with the middle mark missed out on the second lap. Three races straight off cut down the time lost in getting boats on and off the water during a © normal schedule. The full results and notes on the system have been sent to the clubs who took part inviting comments. With all the mud around the lake due to landscaping being carried out, skippers this year had the use ofa newly installed landing stage. Officer of the day was Mr D. Brown, and the prizes were presented by Mrs J. Swatton, wife of the Andover Club secretary. D. Brown Wigan MPBC Open Multi Racing Regatta, 18th March 1979 On a day when most of the country was covered in a blanket of snow, the first multi race meeting on the MPBA Northern Regatta list took place in good conditions at the Three Sisters Recreation Area near Wigan. A degree of sunshine in the afternoon added to the pleasantries of the day. The day’s events got underway with the first of three ten minute heats for unlimited 2lectric boats. This attracted four competitors who’s boats were easily identified by their ndividual colouring, reminiscent of tiddly winks from a Ludo set. First home after three eats was Dave Wooley who’s ‘fast electric’ lapped its rivals with predictable consistency. In the IC classes, a margin of superior performance was noticeable between the K &B 21 powered A/phas and the other ‘A’ class boats, although the two favourites from Wigan, Jave Marles and Kevin Blears collided and put themselves out of the race. The ‘B’ class esults serve to remind us that the HP 40 power unit is still competitive, whilst in the ‘C’ lass we are beginning to see the 65s creep into the results. Particular mention must be nade of the very fast OPS 65 powered Si/ak entered by a Leeds competitor which must lave been the fastest boat of the day although its engaging capacity to nose dive orevented its appearance in the results. The lap score for A. C. Shaw’s Barracuda does not reflect the speed at which this boat ravelled, it was, without doubt, the fastest petrol powered boat yet seen at Wigan. The local lad of the day was Cliff Lucas, who in addition to his ‘B’ & ‘C’ class trophies, 62.3 1st A. C. Shaw 2nd N. Birmingham J.H. Faux Barracuda O&R 3rd Manchester S. Bertram OD Barrow J LO 35 Comet 29 Quadra 32 26.2 31 B. Aldous Woodley MYC Open Meeting, 24th March 1979 A report from behind the front lines — well behind. I’m too young to remember, of course, but | believe that Sir Winston Churchill (the man, not the sailing ship) was involved in the Boer War as a War Correspondent for The Times. | do remember The Times, just. Being a War Correspondent then—as now, | suppose—was a somewhat hairy business; in theory, you were a non-combatant, carried no weapons, and avoided joining in the conflict. This is fine, of course, so long as the real idiots, those doing the shooting, realise your special situation and refrain from despatching you like one of your own reports. | was reminded of this a few days before the Woodley Club’s annual March Open Meeting, which has a fine tradition of thunder, lightning and rain for its occasion, regardless of the weather before or after the day. You see, after hopping like a wet flea around the edges of the last two Meetings, making helpful comments to the beginners, and seeking sage advice (no, not ‘Get Stuffed’) from my heroes, | had rashly stuck my hand in the air when entries from Woodley were invited; in other words, this year | would be a combatant. Then—horror of horrors—in spite of my last two efforts at reporting, | was ‘Volunteered’ to have a go again this year; although the reasons given seemed to be divided between “You might getit right this time’ and ‘No-one else wants to doit.’ So here | was on Sunday, 24th March, 1979, at Southlake. I’d never raced against anyone outside the Woodley Club; my boat, a Chris Dicks rarity called Ga/adrie/, was rigged for a fair blow, and fitted with a brand new rudder for the event (more of that later); and my trusty pad and pencil were to hand to note the trivia that make up my reports. If | won, of course, it could be embarrassing — ‘Modesty forbids’ and all that. But a glance at the entries — John Cleave, with a newX/ug, raced for the first time the previous day; Chris Dicks with his son, sailing identical new boats; Tim Fuller, scourge of South Africa’s World Championship, and Vic Cooney, a previous winner, sailing a new Trapper — as | say, a cursory run down this formidable list reassured me on that score. | might, | Model Boats
