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September 1982 70p (LR. £1.06, U.S.A. & Canada $3.25) \ | i ids pe immiaite Peeereceenenncneeeeenel $£ German estrover £b ERE BES 8! Commander town centre(N.W.) when Beeches Road should be the third turning on the right, from the cemetery. Now to a south-western club, Woodspring, who sail mostly at Portishead, the lake being on the sea front (the sea being the Severn Estuary, of A SSS SE J ey Model Yachting Association News | Veterans The race, for pre-bulb vane was well supported and enjoyed by participants and spectators alike. There was a certain amount places in each class, allowing 11 in RM and 7 in R1OR. With 18 places available, nearly half of of light-hearted clowning in the dress of some of those who initially signified a wish to compete could have been accommodated, and it was the obvious excess of aspirants over available places which caused the MYA Council to decide that no one skipper could compete in both classes. Now, however, the interested parties have melted away and we are fielding one 11-strong team, all of whom are racing RMs and seven of whom will also be racing in the R1OR class. The two extra places are being filled by the only two skippers who had asked to be placed on a list of reserves. The team is (was!) J. Cleave, C. Dicks, M. Dicks, T. Fuller, D. Hackwood, B. Jackson, J. Lee, A. Owen, R. Potter, N. Wilder and C. Yabsley, which the skippers (like Dick Seager sailing in a nightshirt and Wally Jones and Bill Poole in schoolboy/Wolf Cub caps) but the racing was taken quite seriously. Some skippers used modern sails and masthead spinnakers (instead of spinnakers to the 68in. limit which applied when these boats were current) but with the fluky wind, which sometimes started out as a beat and finished as a run or vice versa, big spinnakers were not always an advantage. The winner, Lazy Devil, originally designed and built by a very young Roger Stollery, used its old sails and spinnakers and was well sailed by Dick Seager, who dropped only one beat and a couple of runs. An interesting aspect was that a good many represents a pretty good spread over the country (on the north/south axis, at least) and includes several past World/National Championship vane boats were having a practice on the Saturday, including many of the modern Ms racing during the week, and it was noticeable that winners and others with considerable experience of international events. It will all be history by the time this issue appears, and we should be able to include at least the major results next time. July 31-August 5. ‘veteran’ Marbleheads, at the Jubilee Regatta at Fleetwood that the organisers offered the MYA two extra Following the query on the 1983 A CLass championships at Fleetwod, the dates agreed are shared with pleasure boats. Waders are not necessary. ALTHOUGH the IMYRU World Championships for RM and R10OR classes will be over before this issue appears, it may be news to some readers 1983 Regattas course). Head south on the M5 from the M4/M5 interchange, to Exit 19, and take the A369 signposted Portishead. After a small roundabout at the junction with the B3124 start looking for the 30mph limit sign and 200yds. past this take the left turn marked ‘Sea Front’, then second right over the hill to bring you down to the lake. Car parking is usually no problem on the front and there is a cafe and toilets a few yards away. Club sailing in the season is usually on Sunday mornings, except for open races, since the lake is there was not a great deal of difference between old and new boats’ performance to weather, although the modern yachts were markedly A slightly shortened version of Vic Smeed’s 10-rater Spook, available from MAP plans, built by Norman Curtis, using 1/32nd ply on open frame construction. superior on the run. New Boats Following last year’s 12 metre experiments, at The possibility of an R36R championship mentioned by the Guildford club has been put in abeyance, since the club has been allocated the RA championship (September 17/18) and would not be able to arrange two major meetings in the same season. However, the idea has not been abandoned; perhaps 1984? Club Waters Let’s start in the north again — Cleveland MYC who sail on Hemlington Lake on the N.E. side of Hemlington village. Starting from the junction of the A19 York-Newcastle road and the A174 Teesport, Redcar and Whitby, head east on the A174 from the roundabout at the junction, following the sign for these three towns, turn left off the A174 following Acklam, A1044 and keep left (following Stainton, Maltby, Yarm A1044) to cross back over the A174. Follow signs for Hemlington and ‘Local Traffic’ at the first roundabout, take the first left after the roundabout and second right takes you down to the clubhouse and lake, whichis a large ex-gravel pit. In the Midlands, Charnwood Water, Leicester MYC on the S.E. sail edge at of Loughborough. Leave the M1 at Junction 23 or 24 and head east to pick up the A6 Leicester/Derby road, which is called ‘Leicester Road’ heading roughly S.:E. from the town centre. Opposite a school on the right turn left down 488 Beeches Road and take the second right, Tuckers Road, to reach the water. The lake lies on the eastern side of the A6 directly opposite Loughborough Cemetery and Crematorium on the western side, but from this easily-found reference it is necessary to head towards the least two of the designers concerned have recently launched new 12m yachts differing quite sharply from their 1981 models. One is Dick Priest, about whose yacht we have heard little except that it shows considerable promise, and the other known to us is Roger Stolley, whose Model Boats new boat Wake was photographed at a recent the scale-draught models do not look or sail like informal meeting at Ash. This design, like last the fullsize craft, whereas those with the false year’s, is to the minimum waterline, giving it over keel do, and the reduced-sail division is therefore 2 thousand square inches of sail, but there the similarity ends, since this is the first deep-V hull in the process of being dropped. The removal of the extra lead keel and its placing inside the hull Roger has ever designed. In the very light airs at without changing the plane of flotation allows the the time, with occasional slightly stronger periods, the modet’moved effortlessly and has an yachts to be measured as 1/10th scale versions of the fullsize rule. incredibly clean wake with no hump left astern and nocross-hull ‘boiling’. It will be interesting to So far the yachts have been scale models of fullsize designs, but the possibility of accepting see what the speed and wake are like in a stiffer freelance designs is being investigated. It appears blow. that Also on an early outing was Norman Curtis’ some additional restrictions may be necessary — like w.l. not less than 523,in., sail Spook, the long thin boxy 10-rater published in area not less than 2,328sq. in. and not alllowing a February 1981 8. In order to get it in his car, Norman had closed the sections slightly, reducing draught penalty to be taken — in order to maintain the model design characteristics creeping in. the l.o.a. by 5 per cent and he had built it immaculately, using in. ply on open frames. It is a notably clean mover, not throwing any water about, scale-type concept without undesirable Jan does not say how many or what prototypes are represented in the 98 registered yachts; the and gives the impression that in any weight of wind it will slice along well. In the near- only one we have seen was the Sverige lent to calm when it was sailed, a short waterline R10R sailed by an experienced skipper showed better acceleration, but the Spook was being controlled certainly an excellent boat. From an invitation toa by one of the non-sailing visitors and comparative judgements were therefore not easy to make. This particular fun meeting saw the 12m, the Dave Hollom for the Acorn trials, and this was Press function we received some months ago, In the foreground is the 12 metre design by Roger Stollery, called Wake, a deep-vee hull carrying over 2,500 sq. in. of sail. two R10Rs, several RMs, an R36R anda Panache all sailing well. When the 30in. Panache was published eighteen months or so ago, which makes them fairly large models. However, incidentally, several people expressed interest in the idea of scaling it up to Marblehead size, and it (leading light in the SMSF, now the accredited may therefore bea thought to mention that an RM of similar style will construction series be appearing as a short in sister magazine Rad/o Modeller, starting in the October issue. More on 12m The Acorn Project 12m models and, of course, the two mentioned above are to 1/10th scale, such models have proved extremely popular in Sweden where, in a newsy letter from Jan Dejmo model yachting body for Sweden) no fewer than 98 have been registered in a little over a year. Apparently two experimental divisions have been ‘circus’ of boats with people able to hire models to race, and franchises available for such commercial application in other countries. If this was indeed a correct interpretation, one can see that it might work in Sweden, with a small (though intensely boat-minded) population and thousands of lakes and other potential sailing sites. It might not, unalloyed delight however, be greeted with in more densely-populated occupied. and the other employing a requested further information but so far nothing standard lead fin, increasing draught and allowing the full sail area to be carried for much longer. It has emerged that LET OFFA LITTLE STEAM countries where suitable sailing waters are at a premium and radio frequencies are fairly well At the time of the invitation we has arrived; if anything is forthcoming we’ll keep readers in touch. _ NYLET Model PC Nachts Pirate Nook y Bear MODEL YACHT KITS « SAILMAKERS NYLET WORLD-WIDE MAIL ORDER Mamod real live steam models, fun for all, ~ ages. 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Immense interest in the 575 class was shown by the scale modellers and the general public and the Rotteram local newspaper carried a report with colour photos in its weekend edition. ho The575 scale boats were on displayiI duringk ; hich -incid the racing, which incidentally too scale, actually F2X, Brian Peach of the Mid Thames Model Boat Club came second with his tug A/fred. It was his first visit to a continental regatta and he returned home with the definite aim to return in future and ae Name C’y Club GB isicester MBC A. F. J. Kriesets G. G. J. Matser NL Neptunus NL Neptunus Naviga and Model Engineer Exhibition h fi look bef h | A. van Belle E. A. Bakker NL Neptunus classes took over on Sunday and Monday. . i A file oy Sia by our good ae judge, to have a frien Tirst look illi Thuysbaert, betore the scale _ After two days of sailing and a day’s static J. Cundell £. Toussaint K. Weyman judging in perfect water conditions, the goes presentations made. We were very pleased – bg ao resu Its ; were p published and the to note that the only English competitor in B.Pope G. Peach incredibly good ran in an efficient but extremely friendly atmosphere. and Sunday evenings — a barbecue and a festive evening — both very enjoyable. place on the Saturday, enabling the judges, iod’b d friend Willi Th b t ed was nothing was forgotten and the whole event Social events were arranged on Saturday bring some colleagues with him. H. Middleton It must be put on record that the Dutch organisation GB Cygnets NL HM.B.C. Place 1 2 3 allows some time to slip off to see the sights 5 of Rotterdam — ae and no model boater i 6 7 NL HMBC 9/10 a L rm Mid pieces GB Thames MBC 13/14 rset hand. The pace of the event is leisurely4 and ; : 4 NL HMBC. A oan Camping facilities are available in the : ; Park and hotel accommodation is close to ye should miss out visiting the docks. Allin all, a very enjoyable meeting which brings together two compatible forms of model boating. Make a note in your diaries for or 1983 now, for tor the the similar simil eventon 21 21st, 22nd and 23rd May. Seo John Cundell latter being a beautiful oroco wood and mahogany built on ash timbers. Hugh Shield’s new Bantock design having been completed too late to be measured in, he had to bring in his reserve line of defence. In order to make the sailing a little harder, the finishing markers were set across the north west corner of the pond for a beat, while fora run the markers were across the full width of the eastern end of the pond. The yachts of Messrs. Shields, Turnbull and Wishart gradually scored ahead of the rest of the fleet, all of them being particularly good on the beat. The final race was between Messrs. Shields and Wishart, both with identical scores, and after a terrific tussle, Hugh Shields managed to take the beat with Robert Wishart winning the run. This outcome was very well earned as these two competitors are the most consistent long-term champions sailing north of the border, the final result being a win for Hugh Shields scoring 34 points, Robert Wishart coming second with 33 points, third place being taken by Allan Turnbull. There were very few resails thanks to the excellent Commodoreship of Vincent Markham. A. C. Mackenzie, P.R.O., Inverleith M.Y.C. * * * Wessex Model Boat Club — Mid-Season Regatta Although gratifying to report successes, as we all know, some failures are inevitable and having reached the halfway stage in our competition calendar the failures are few and a successful regatta more the order of the day. We have had three regattas to date; /,hr. Multi, Deep Vee and Hydroplanes and the R. Wishart with his 6 metre at the Scottish MYA 6M Championships in Edinburgh. Photo by A. Mackenzie. Scottish Model Yacht Association — 6 Metre Championship — Saturday, 8th May — Hosted by Inverleith Model Yacht Club, Edinburgh. The Championship was held on a beautiful and warm, sunny day, with a medium to fresh S.W. wind blowing directly down the pond. Before reporting on the event in detail it may be of interest to readers togive a list of the competing yachts together with year of construction and owner’s name. These were as follows: Yacht Built Owner Wasp 1937 G. Wishart Neda 1937 A. Fraser Renovated 1948 A. Turnbull Fiona Fulmar Fram 1951 1955 1957 W. Arthur H. Shields R. Wishart San Gor 1976 J. Stewart Lindsey Anne 1980 J. Milne Girl Anne 1981 |. Clements We must assume the 1960s was not a good vintage decade for 6M construction. All the yachts were of planked construction, eight of them being varnished, which.made a pleasant change from the ubiquitous fibreglass hull. Of particular interest were the yachts of Robert Wishart and John Milne, the former being yellow pine with mahogany inset waterline and king plank, the September 1982 first of our two Scale days. The ),hr. Multi held on the 2nd May was very successful with contingents from Penarth, Cotswolds and Kingfishers arriving in force. The weather, however caused a headache. Although the usual 24hr. downpour didn’t happen, the wind more than made up for it by blowing a hooley all day long which caused several boats to capsize or fill up with water. As you can imagine, the rescue boat was in great demand and it is rumoured that the Penarth crowd will bring two of their own next year for their own exclusive use! RESULTS: Class A — 57 laps. 1. J. Llewelyn 2. J. Uzzell 3. J. Dodswell Class B — 44 laps. 1. P. Holder 2. C. Carpenter 3. H. Read Class C — 39 laps. 1. D. Williams 2. M. Denham 3. C. Crouch The lap scores are correct, the reduction was entirely due to the strong wind which increased in ferocity as the day went on. Moving on to the Deep Vee and Hydro event, due to the lack of support from outside the club, the Deep Vee had to be postponed. Several hydroplanes were entered and we were all treated to some exciting displays during the practice session with John Bright’s ‘Is ita boat/is it a plane?’ hydro making a mockery of our course. Unfortunately the casualty rate meant that there were insufficient boats left to have a race. Thanks are extended to all the hydro boys who did turn up; Paul Firmin has now found the right prop for his and it goes very well. Finally on to the Scale day. Held at Queens Park ona warm, sunny afternoon the day went very well. Although only one visitor turned up, our own members did us proud. Those who did arrive were able to have a good look at Tom Andrews’ 1982 Silver Medal M.E. Exhibition winning model of the Armoured Troop Carrier Refueller and an even closer look at his extremely attractive mechanic. Running in tandem with the Scale event was the first heat in our Shadow competition. Being classed as semi-scale, four boats were entered in the Scale 495
