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July 1982 60p (I.R. 91p, U.S.A. & Canada $2.75) | imap> MODEL MAGAZINE BELL SKo HOVERCRAFT eet NEW SERIES ON MODEL (POWERBOAT HULL DESIGN sports, but this would not perhaps be a universally acceptable idea; at least points would avoid any suspicion of prejudice. ng. However, back to the business of the meeti g club There appears to be some confusion amon should be secretaries over affiliation fees, which ber based on the number of members on Decem ently feel 31st each year. Some secretaries appar who have that they should only affiliate membersup-da te the paid their subscriptions, but omit to ers pay number of affiliations when tardy memb ially, just, “7S Association News Eric Nuttall With very great regret we have to report the death of the M.Y.A. R/C Secretary, Eric Nuttall, in a boating accident on April 28. We understand that following a club race Eric was retrieving the marker buoys and while he was leaning over the side of the dinghya gust struck and capsized it. Rescue attempts by a clubmate and two anglers were unsuccessful, as were efforts at resuscitation. The funeral took place on May 4. Eric, in his middle fifties, was an immensely likeable, unassuming man with an acute engineering mind who first became widely known in radio yachting circles in 1975. He was elected Radio Control Secretary at the December 1978 M.Y.A. A.G.M. and his true organisational to assume a formidable workload emerged, to render his services to fellow model talents, grasp of the rules and willingness yachtsmen incalculable. The current racing rules used world-wide and the Race Management Guide were only two results of his work, while on the practical side his crystal switcher and the ingenious rig of the Mickey Finn and the new 14/75 one- design being manufactured in Germany are examples of his inventiveness. He will be sadly missed, and the sympathy of all model enthusiasts is extended to his family. May Council Meeting The tragic loss of Eric was marked by tributes to him at the beginning of the May meeting of the M.Y.A. Council and the unanimous acceptance in principle of an annual Eric Nuttall Award. It was felt that his enormous contribution to model yachting and the example he set could best be perpetuated by a form of recognition to a person considered to have made a notable contribution to the sport in any year, the decision to be taken at the September Council Meeting and the presenta- ation made at the A.G.M. Although the exact form of the award remains to be decided, nominations for the first recipient are invited and should be sent to the Hon. Gen. Sec., Roy Gardner, before the end of August. It was further suggested that there may well be model yachtsmen who would wish to subscribe to a permanent memento for this purpose, in which case any donation may be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Tim de Buriatte (21 Hills Road, Steyning, Sussex, BN4 30G) with a with the customary acceptance of the previous minutes and matters arising therefrom. It was announced that the O.0.D. for the RA Championships at Fleetwood (Aug 28-30) would be the M.Y.A. Racing Secretary, Jack Lee, and there was some discussion of the recent RM Cha mpionship, particularly with regard to its function as a selection race for this year’s World Champion- ship. This meeting received valuable sponsorship from the Midland Bank (who are also contributing to other regattas), and, although the weather was cold, it was very successful. There were chy starters and 69 twelve-boat races, giving each skipper 24 races, in eliminators on the Sat./Sun. and fleets on the Monday. Protests were dealt with after racing and one slightly controversial one was reported to the appeals committee; until the appointment of a new R/C Secretary, the Chairman, Norman Hatfield, will receive and pass on any correspondence intended for the appeals committee, incidentally. After all the flap about selection procedures, only ten skippers in the Nationals wanted to enter the RM class at the World Championship, and one has since dropped out. Since nine places are available the matter resolved itself, and there are two reserves ready to step in if any more of the nine have to withdraw. The position in the R1OR is even more bizarre — there are five places and only five wishing to compete, four of whom are already sailing in the RM. In view of this there was no point in holding the planned selection race at Leicester, so it was cancelled. So the English team will consist of ten people, leaving one wondering what happened to the 40-plus who originally expressed a desire to be in the team. It is to be hoped that members will give thought as selection profor future to and come up with ide cedures so that a system can be decided well in advance of the next major international event, which may possibly be in 1984. If, for example, league results during the preceding season are to form part of the qualification, then obviously a decision should be made before the end of 1982 so that people know. There would seem something to be said for a points system taking into account previous performances in national, district and possibly major open events, which could produce the strongest and most consistent team. In fact a selection committee could do the job without any problem, as is done in many other up. The Association limps along financ if you thought so fair play, chaps; you’d moan up because of free affiliation fees had had to go riders in other clubs, wouldn’t you? season is as The major regatta list for the 1983 table 1. At the moment the dates are firm, the only ‘the first full week in August’. August lisa Monday, so confirmation on this is needed. 6m, Firm venues but no dates so far are Bournville, and 36R, Bournville (at a guess the far first in October and the other in July?) andtheso 10there is no venue or date arranged for vane). rater (vane) or Model Maker Trophy (M of Guildford club is investigating the possibility for staging a championship for the R36R class, which there has not yet been an event, with the query being the A Class week, which was given as s of further possibility of debarring from it winner any national radio championships. More on this if and when. Available about the time these notes appear should be vinyl M.Y.A. stickers, 2¥,in. diameter, of similar design to the cloth badges currently for available. Clubs can buy supplies of these resale to members if desired; contact Ken Shaw for details, or we hope to give them next time.ion A complaint was received about the reduct in number of open events qualifying for league points, but the operation of the league has been entrusted to the Racing Secretary; we understotand that the reduction in numbers is mainly due the difficulty in getting results from host clubs. The Sailing sub-committee charged with checking thehas duly Rules and General Rating Regulations presented the new draught, which in general makes few alterations but tidies things up by Competition Rules, Rating Regulations and be Controlled Racing Rules. Copies of these will es, breaking them into three separate categori Vane Council sent to all clubs following the September matter s Meeting under the normal procedure for on the agenda for the A.G.M. A new affiliation is the sailing section of urst Wessex M.B.C. (M. J. Holgate, 16 Sandyh Close, Poole, Dorset BH17 7JS) and secreta,rial 91 changes notified are M.Y.S.A., J. Parkins and Dove Park, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex, Newcastle, N. Patterson, 35 Cranwell Drive, On Wideopen, Newcastle upon Tyne NE13 6AS. the latest address list, please note that under Fleetwood N. James lives at 9 Derbyshire Avenue, not 29. Regrettably, Welwyn Garden City S.M.E. iate have ceased affiliation, but hope to reaffil when conditions permit. The major business of the meeting had been held over to the end, in view of the amount of time note stating the purpose. This unfortunate accident brings home to modellers who may jump into a dinghy to retrieve buoys or a crippled model the advice stressed by the Water Recreation Division of the C.C.P.R. on the necessity for lifejackets, even for good swimmers. The business of the meeting got under way 388 Model Boats likely to be involved, and this was how the M.Y.A. will approach the matter of the outline new M rules propounded by the Rules Sub-committee of the I.M.Y.R.U. ‘Outcry’ is not too strong a word to describe reaction throughout English clubs, and it is clear that the publication of the proposals in Model Boats and Model Yachting Newsletter Guildford M.Y.C. as to what the rules should be, in mind the I.M.Y.R.U. brief especially having indeed any opportunity of putting forward the views of their members. referred to returning to the intended Possibly the most controversial point in the simplicity of the original rule. The suggestion Guildford suggestion relates to trim tabs. Thereis which includes a complete set of rules made up as they little point in prohibiting movable keels if 90 per would appear in the M.Y.A.’s (and |.M.Y.R.U.’s) cent of the fin area can be heldto be a trim tab and explanatory sketches moved at will. The suggestion was that tab area made a significant contribution to the debate by which extend the rules to eight pages instead of should be limited to not more than half of the total bringing them to the attention of all interested parties in a way which would have not been possible through the usual M.Y.A. communica- the present five. From the outset, it is clear that fixed area, but Council members felt that cal- these culation of the fixed area (including the bulb) was tions system. and specific instructions on how sail area is to be unanimously acommentthat measured. The Commodore of the Guildford club the remark in the April issue that ‘the funda- altogether. If this does cause controversy, might it is Roger Stollery, a former !.M.Y.R.U. Rating Rules not be possible to permit them up to a mentals remain unaltered’ was misleading. In our view, the fundamentals of the Marblehead rule Officer himself, and it is not therefore surprising specified area, say, for the sake of illustration, 6 to recognise his touch in much of the presenta- square inches or less? If we may mention it, there was are a length of 50in. and a measured sail area of 800 sq.ins., and these are certainly unaltered. If those aren’t adequate fundamentals, well, the M is fundamentally a Bermudan rig monohull of 5Oin. length and 800 sq. ins. measured sail, with standard rulebook, with rules follow the original as closely as possible but with greater precision in definitions an additional complication for measurers and tion. voted to prohibit trim tabs total It is, of course, effectively impossible to produce The suggested rules were examined and found to answer virtually all the points raised by other a clubs, and it was decided that with one or two very draught will go a reasonable distance towards minor alterations they should be put forward as rule, or a rule revision, which will satisfy everyone, but it seems likely that the Guildford no restrictions on beam, draught or displacement, and these haven’t been altered. Anything else is detail, surely? It is a length and sail area rule, full stop (see Daniels and Tucker, 1938). However, this is a matter of semantics and we concede that some of the detail rules might necessitate a yacht with a modern top suit having one complete amendment to the |.M.Y.R.U. pro- this ideal, certainly further than the |.M.Y.R.U. rules committee’s proposals. It looks comfortably posals or, if this was unacceptable, then a request like. the should be made that these rules should be cir- intentions of the originators while tying up the culated when the time comes as an alternative, so loose ends which development of new materials to modify its sails and that the revision has by the undesirable aspects in other respects. That the proposals are unpopular with the M.Y.A. is to say the least; they have been taken apart by experts in all parts of the country and the amount of amendment needed to make them accord with what most people would accept as reasonable is very nearly impossible. Among strong and lengthy comment received from several clubs was a suggestion by the £5.00 present rule and closely follows the that member countries can vote for the existing has shown up. Clubs will have an opportunity of rules or either of two forms of revision. This seeing a copy before final decisions are taken and seems an eminently sensible idea. Much of the indignation aroused will, we think, agree that Council has adopted the course which is in their best interests. |.M.Y.R.U. proposals stems from the fact that A few years back, the M.Y.A. could outvote all clubs do not feel that their opinions have been other |I.M.Y.R.U. affiliates (votes are based on adequately canvassed. They were asked for views numbers of registered yachts of international on a small number of possibilities at an early classes) but nowadays, although still the biggest stage, but the complete proposals contain vote, the combined total of the others well innovations about which they were not con- outweighs us. It is to be hoped that sufficient sulted, and not just one or two such innovations. other countries will feel the same way as M.Y.A. This has led to the question of whether other members so clearly do! countries have had more, the same, less, or per Yach! £6.00 per Yacht (Entries to Host Club)” _ £5.0 per Yacht 0 Entries to Host Club) July 1982 389
