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December 1982 70p (I.R. £1.04, U.S.A. & Canada $3.25) 2nd Model Engineer MINIATURE TOOLS FOR HOBBYISTS Miniature round nose sidecutters -insulated handles 4Yinch length Exhibition Order No:¥043 insulated handles S¥inch length Order No: Y044 Wembley Conference Centre 1st – 9th January, 1983 Miniature pend nose pliers – screws. Overall length 8,inch. Order No: FS-1 Flat blade 4mm FS-2 Cross point no J £2.30 each .MI3NIDNS eee Order No: Y045 Late night Thursday 6th January – ca 4″ainch length. Order No Sundays) and will close at 7.00 p.m. except on Thursday 6th, when the Exhibition will remain open until 9.00 p.m. wo. INEXPENSIVE TOOLS OF IMMENSE VALUE Combined wire stripper, cutter, crimmper incl. 25 asst. terminals for company. Order No. WS2. Our low price £1.65 each. side cutter and serrated jaws – The Exhibition will open at 10.00 a.m. each day (including —s GRIP DRIVER 6 inch long screwdriver with spring loaded grip on end to hold screws in position while reaching into those difficult places. Order No: SO-1 Flat blade 4mm SO-2 Cross point no. 0 £1.40 each. p/ Minature end nippers- insulated Miniature snipe nose pliers with PLAN YOUR VISIT NOW @ insulated handles 5Yainch lengtn (including Sundays 2nd & 9th) until 9 p.m. eid A flexible shaft screwdriver for those awkward to get at Miniature long nose pliers – insulated handles Sinch length Order No: Y042 All with insulated handles ANTEX SK1 SOLDERING KIT 220-240v AC/DC 15 watt iron, 3 bits 2.3, 4, 4.7mm. Solder/Heat sink/Booklet — THE THIRD AND FOURTH HAND… ..you always need but have never got until 4 3 now. This helpful unit ADVANCE TICKETS Advance tickets at the normal rate and advance party tickets at more favourable prices are available, valid for any day, direct from the Exhibition Manager, Model Engineer Exhibition at the following rates: ADULT CHILDREN/OAP’s £2.00 £1.50 each each AT DOOR OR ADVANCE: for small parties less than 10 ADVANCE: for parties greater than 10 £1.50 each £1.00 each with rod mounted horizontally on heavy base, crocodile clips attached to rod ends. Six ball & socket joints give Infinite variatior This small, cast iron, quality made vice will clamp on to any bench or table having a max thickness of 1}°. The 23° Jaws open to max of 1§”. Approx size 80 x 120 x 66mm. Las eget Helping hand untt avaliable or without With magnifier as llustrated $7.45. with their parties while ‘$6-55| Credit Cards accepted. pte 0920-3182 CWO Pnreces incl P&P & VAT Advance tickets are designed to help regular visitors to avoid waiting in the long queues which form on well attended days, particularly at weekends. While it is not possible to guarantee that holders of advance tickets will not have to wait at the special ‘Advance Ticket’ position for a short while, these tickets take precedence over non-ticket holders. Please use the coupon below to apply for your tickets. Also, please note that there are special British Rail fare rates, including admission, that are advertised in some MAP magazines. Trains to and from Marylebone, on the Princes Risborough line, stops regularly at Wembley Complex Station, three minutes walk from the Conference Centre. Car parking for the day, currently £1 but subject to increase, is available for thousands of cars at the rear of the Conference Centre. Visitors should note that round-the-pole model flying takes place only on January 8th and 9th and that model car racing takes place on January 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and model car demonstrations on the 5th, 6th and 7th January. 360° also available dia magnifier giving 2.5x magnifier. Teachers/Leaders of parties greater than 10 — free ticket in the ratio of one per 10 in party. Teachers/Leaders must remain they are in the Exhibition. and positions through attacked to rod, a 2} Dept. MB12 5 > gee GIRO 388 7006 P.O. Box 6, 63A High St Ware, Herts C= py SAME DAY ey DESPATCH! OLARKRAFT OUR SUPERB YACHTS LEAD THE WORLD. THIS YEAR AGAIN BARRY JACKSON WAS CHAMPION PARTY AND ADVANCE BOOKING APPLICATION FORM DUNKIRK, FRANCE. Please complete and return to: The Exhibition Manager, Model Engineer Exhibition, Model & Allied Publications Ltd., P.O. Box 35, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP1 1EE. Full Rate Beas ws Adults at £2.00 each sgieee se Child/ at£1.50 each OF THE WORLD IN RADIO MARBLEHEAD AND 2nd IN R.1.0.R. AT THE 4th I.M.Y.R.U. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN Party Rate Or ………… at £1.50 each Or ………… at £1.00 each OAP’s (All admission charges ROA VUE Cpa | Aas ee include VAT) | enclose cheque/PO for total amount stated above, payable to Model & Allied Publications Limited. All applications must be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope for return of tickets. Final date for receipt of applications for advance tickets 10th December, 1982. BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE Please forward tickets to: SEA-KING. 10 Rater (R10R) SEAHORSE 3. Marblehead (RM) SEA-URCHIN. Marblehead (RM) DOLPHIN. 36” Restricted (36R) THE above boats are available as packs of finished components ready for assembly in the ab- solute minimum of time OA as finished ready-to-sail boats re- quiring only radio and winch. If you want to ‘do your own thing’ by building froma published design or even from your own design, then our catalogue of fittings and materials will have something to interest you. It lists the fittings and materials which include such useful items as brass and stainless steel wire, nylon covered stainless steel cable, polyester braids, sailcloth and so on. Send 40p for your catalogue containing information on all yachts, fittings, sails and materials. Overseas customers — we ship anywhere in the world in a strong carton — ask for quote of cost. SOLARKRAFT ACKHURST ROAD, CHORLEY, LANCS. 633 never see a statement of accounts under the existing procedures. Proposals for constitutional changes will be made at the 1982 A.G.M. to provide an opportunity of improving the situation. Selection for World Championship teams was again raised, but deferred until some indication of the next W.C. date is available. At present there have been no firm requests to host a meeting in 1984 or later. There was further discussion on the appointment of a marketing secretary (for badges, T-shirts, stickers etc.) and of investi- gations which had taken place in the matter of an overall Association insurance scheme. Both ideas were dropped. Four clubs which had not paid affiliation fees for the current year despite repeated requests were now considered no longer affiliated. There followed a detailed discussion on finance and the need to increase income to provide adequate working capital for 1983, resulting in proposals to increase affiliation fees (by approximately one packet of cigarettes or just A Class at Gosport new Roger Stollery development of Lo//ipop, and Pressure on space squeezed out even a summary of the month, over half a gallon of petrol per year) plus small brief eight further back Mike Harris with the slightly increases in ‘service fees’’. It was also felt that it 1982 AClass Championships last stretched Venceremos. Nine points covered the would but for many of the competitors it is next seven boats. be feasible to reduce administration expenses by reverting to one District Councillor probably a case of let’s forget it, anyway! An About half the fleet were Stollery designs, instead of the two per District (one experienced in almost total absence of any wind for almost the including ten Lo//ipops, anda notable feature was vane, one in radio) introduced when radio sailing entire week made event, that 30 of the boats were 4Olbs, or under and only was first especially since what air was moving seemed to it a very frustrating one was over 48lbs., the oldest boat in the fleet, a were discussed and those felt desirable putin the take a perverse delight in changing at the most Moonraker sailed by Roger Cole at 62’/,lbs. When form of motions to the A.G.M. awkward times. Many boats started a beat which there was a slight increase in wind strength, this changed to a run halfway through, or vice versa. boat was hard to beat. At the other end of the With 36 boats the longest heat was some 2, range was Wuki at 24lbs., which was so narrow- hours, and ‘heat’ applied in more ways than one, beamed as to look rather like an over-length or even two! However, from a 2 p.m. start on Marblehead which had strayed into the fleet, but Saturday, 10 heats had been sailed by 6 p.m. which nevertheless held its own with many of the Sunday; the entry was sailed as separate A and B fancied yachts. becoming popular. Other measures In a discussion embracing many points raised over the season a suggestion was made that the Model Maker Trophy might be considered for reallocation to a novices’ RM race, but it was agreed that it should remain with vane while the event still attracted a respectable entry. Although on one occasion a couple of years ago the race fleets for the next three days. It became increas- The International was sailed as two rounds ingly obvious that the chances of getting through between the four leading representatives of the the every normally support is second only to the national respective countries, at 3 p.m. onthe Wednesday, strengthening puff raised hopes, and it was not when the best wind of the week happened to championship for vane Ms. until the Friday lunch-time that it was conceded arrive. Holland pipped England by one point, an that 33 heats would have to do, and even then it encouraging win for Dutch model yachtsmen. full 35 heats were receding, but was only possible to take those resails which The week finished with the was cancelled because the entry was too small, The suggestion arose from consideration of the introduction of an R36R class championship which Guildford had previously offered to host if customary they did not have the 1983 RA Championship; affect the final prize list. For the whole week the dinner/dance and prizegiving, which most people light winds and periods of drift had brought the throught was the most enjoyable such function usual higher than average toll of resails to add to for years. Possibly relaxation and swapping of shortening tempers. in the MM Trophy. Since Guildford would not be hard a week staging the RA, this left the idea of the R36R contributed to what was a very pleasant evening! floating, and Chelmsford club stepped in with the September Council Meeting difficult, at Dovercourt. It is not known how many In such circumstances an element of luck might luck stories after so frustrating be expected to affect placings, but though there are some individuals placed lower or higher than one of the ideas was that previous national champions in other classes would be excluded, as offer to run it at Chelmsford or, if that proved might be expected, in general luck may well have Arising from the minutes of the May meeting, averaged out and affected most skippers by onlya radio 36s are around — not many are registered there was discussion on the date of the end of the — but there is plenty of time between now and place or two. Untaken resails may well have made financial year and that of the A.G.M., since as differences of one or two places except in the top June to get one built! If necessary, since they fixed by the Constitution there is insufficient time half-dozen or so. What was clear was that Dave would meet the 36 x 9x 11in. dimension maxima, between Lathan the prepared, audited and distributed to clubs before aremarkable as Panache, the A.G.M. It was felt that such distribution would achievement in the prevailing conditions. Nine Mickey Finns would fit the rule with a reduction in help members to realise why increases in fees points behind was Graham Wyeth, sailing the draught. The resulting fleet might be a bit mixed, become necessary, especially as many members but it should be a fun event! led throughout and finished with same percentage score as last year, the two to enable accounts to be 1982 A” Class Championships — Gosport — Results K1118 K1133 K1119 K1107 K1066 K1075 K1132 1. 2 3 4. 5. 6. 7, Kialoa Nice ‘N’ Easy Sundance Razamataz That Venceremos — Step K1108 K1129 K1136 K1028 K1131 K1109 K1149 K1055 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 12. 12. 12. Pepe Zephyrus Midnight Oil lpi Tombi QuickMuffie Thief Wokanido David Latham Graham Wyeth Mike Harris David Rose Alex Austin Ken Butler Martin Roberts Roy Gardner Steve Oastler Graham Bantock Walter Jones Ken Roberts Norman James Dennis Lippett Dick Seager Fleetwood Stollery Lollipop Fleetwood Stollery Lollipop Gosport Bournville Guildford Bournville Birkenhead Gosport Gosport Chelmsford Stollery (Loll. Mk. 2) Sutler/Sykes Stollery Lollipop Butler/Sykes Stollery Quick-Step Lewis Admiral Stollery (Lollipop Mk. 2) Bantock Birkenhead Birkenhead Stollery Lollipop Stollery Quick-Step Y.M.6.0.A. Stollery Lollipop Fleetwood Bournville Butler Venceremos Stollery Lollipop it would be possible to register 30in. designs such Witch Wind, and Wing Ray, while 10hts Sun. 42 26 21hts Wed. 83 71 22hts Thur. 106 93 33hts Fri. 129/165 120 30 26 33 14 63 67 71 60 84 85 86 81 105 04 102\, 101 24 61 78 98 33 33 57 64 74 83 o7 93Y, 41 30 37 26 31 24 VEY 56 65 61 63 53 99 Vie 79 74 ar 63 112 100 91 91 91 91 International Yachting Monthly Cup — Holland Dolly Dot 19pts. 2nd England 18pts. 3rd Scotland 13, 4th France 10. Wing & Wing That 25 runs Johnny Cup Kialoa 27 beats Neptune Trophy Fleetwood 325 Nepture Trophy Bournville 3051, Tots Trophy Kialoa, Venceremos, Razamataz. 664 Model Boats Senet asl National Championships confirmed for 1983 are: Event Host Club Date A Fleetwood 31 Jul./5 Aug. M 10r Fleetwood Gosport 30 Apr./2 May 21/22 May 6m 36R Little Portugal Bournville Bournville Gosport 22/23 Oct. 26/27 Mar. 19 June M Team Birmingham 24/25 Sep. A Team Birmingham 23/24 Apr. RM R10R RA Fleetwood Birmingham Guildford (Ash) 28/30 May 11/12 June 17/18 Sep. R36R Chelmsford Champions Cup Model Maker Trophy Mickey Finn Entry By 18 June 2 Apr. 23 Apr. 0.0.D. J. Meir J. Brooks R. G. Gardner Entry Fee 10.00 5.00 5.00 1 Oct. C. W. Sykes 5.00 26 Feb. 4 June 27 Aug. 26 Mar. D. Lippett R. Baker D. Knowles C. W. Sykes 5.00 2.00 5.00 5.00 B. Jackson C. Jackson 5.00 5.00 3 July 30 Apr. 14 May 20 Aug. 4 June R. Stollery G. Bantock 5.00 2.00 Leicester 8/9 Oct. Invitation D. Andrews 5.00 Bournville Bournville ? ? ? M. Harris Nil ? ? ? Dedicleinhewle bbl stet 1) TNE. Radio Controlled Model Yacht Racing Rules are amended as required. Note: Copies of the above (a), (b) and (c) also a List of Amendments, (R/C), were circulated with the Schedule of Motions. Motion 8 Amendments to Radio Controlled Model Yacht Racing Rules. Council propose that the Radio Controlled Model Yacht Racing Rules are amended to bring them into line with the 1981-84 International Yacht Racing Rules. Note. Copy of the necessary Amendments were circulated with the Schedule of Motions. Motion 9. Radio Control Frequencies Council propose that the Radio Controlled Model Yacht Right: A Class winner, David Latham’s Stollery Lollipop, Kialoa, leads H35 a Dutch Lollipop, Dolly Dot, sailed by Hans Hoogewerff. Above: attractive stand-in mate Lorna Bantock for Dave Knowles and Executioner, after Norman Hatfield twisted his ankle. At the other end of the scale, a spot of slackness has crept into the RAs, particularly in respect of black bands, the absence of which should causea measurer to refuse a certificate. There will be a general tightening up on observation of the rules in major events next year. On I.M.Y.R.U. matters it was pointed out that Motion 10. follows: propose that Delete ‘‘two persons one… In R/C matters’ and substitute ‘‘one person”’. Motion 3. Annual General Meeting Council propose that Constitution Rule 7(2) be amended as follows: Constitution Rule 5(6) be amended as has a bearing on the need to improve M.Y.A. Delete ‘‘31st October’’ and substitute ‘30th September’, also, an additional paragraph be income. The response to the M rule proposals has added to the Rule as follows: Other matters included a sub-committee set up to study the 6m rules with a view to simplification and up-rating, and a provisional enquiry about affiliation from a club in Crawley, Sussex. It was agreed to introduce an Exhibition Budget on a modest scale, with any income from exhibitions “six frequencies in the In the 27 MHzband, three of the frequencies shall be splits.” Discards in R/C Racing Council Radio Controlled Racing Rule, Appendix Model Yacht 1 — Scoring System — Clause 1.3 be ammended by adding an additional sentence to the Rule as follows; ‘Disqualification points cannot be discarded but must be included in the final scores.” The OOD will decide if a meeting is to use a follows: is being substitute following year.” Motion 4. Audited Accounts Council propose of about 80 per cent for the M.Y.C. (due to the increase per registered yacht) and this of course made. and 27Mt#z or two frequencies in the 459 MHz bands. Appendix 1 Rule 1.3 to read: that original time schedule, but progress Delete ‘four frequencies in the … shall be a split.” Delete ‘‘held on the. ..each year,” and substitute “at a convenient date each year during the period 1st Saturday in December of the current year until the last Saturday in in January of the the new affiliation fees would mean an increase been such as to make it impossible to meet the Racing Rule 4.11 be amended as follows: (c) Registration and Re-registration Fees to be increased to £1.00 per yacht. (d) Levy from National Championship Entries to be increased to £1.00 per entry. Motion 2. District Councillors Council propose that Constitution Rule 4(1) be amended as “Copies of the Audited Accounts shall be forward to all Clubs with the Notice of the General Motion 11. Discards in R/C Racing \t is proposed jointly by the New Forest, Clapham and Woodley Clubs that: discard system for scoring purposes, or use the results of all races to count for a final score. Ina discard system, computing the final scores etc., etc. (as 1.3). Motion 12. Limitation of entries inR/C Racing \t is proposed jointly by the New Forest, Clapham and Woodley Clubs that: Part 11 Management of Races. Meeting.” 16. The OOD will have the authority to limit the Motion 5. Associate Members Council propose that Constitution Rule 3(5) be amended as number of entries for a boats, if he feels that the quality of the meeting follows: will suffer with regard to the number of races and Delete the last paragraph ‘‘Associate Members … Fixture List.” during the event. National Event to 50 length of course each skipper is able to sail, Motion 6. Assessment ofAffiliation Fee Council propose that Constitution Rule 6(1) be amended Motion 13. Contro/ Position in R/C Racing It is general funds on Aug. 31 each year. The Publicity as follows: Secretary (Ken Shaw) asked that clubs submit 1983 regatta list to him by the end of December 1982 at the latest, to ensure that the list is available early; with a number of events in March, April and May Woodley Clubs that: Add an additional paragraph to Rule as follows: “The amount payable by Clubs shall be proportionate to the number of fully paid up club Part 11 Management of Races. year or, in the case of a new Club, as at the date of Motion 14. Distinguishing Marks \t is proposed this is essential. election.” jointly by the New Forest, Clapham and Woodley Clubs that: passing into it and any surplus returning to any dates they wish included in the Motions (subject to amendments) to be put to the A.G.M. on December 4th are as follows: Motion 1. /ncrease of fees Council propose that fees payable to the M.Y.A. are increased as follows: (a) Club Affiliation Fee to be increased by £1.00 per Club Member per year. (b) Individual Membership Fee to be increased by £1.00 per year. December 1982 members as at the 31st December inthe previous Motion 7. Sailing Rules and General Rating Regulations Council propose that the current Sailing Rules and General Rating Regulations of the MYA be cancelled and that they be sub- stituted by three separate Rules namely; (a) Competition Rules (b) Rating Regulations (c) Vane Controlled Racing Rules Also Council propose, to avoid duplication, the proposed jointly by the New Forest, Clapham and Rule 15 (Control Position) Delete; “but will not be less than 15 yards (30 _ yards overall).”’ RM and M Class Rating Rules. Rule 16 to read; The registration numbers will be preceded by the distinguishing National Letter of similar dimensions. If the mainsail is too narrow to allow the national Letter to preceed the registration number, it will be put above the first registration number. 665
