Three A-heat races from Saturday. There were a lot of cameras around, so I hope some more (better quality!) material appears on youtube soon (please add a link below in the comments!). The quality of these clips improve slightly by selecting the "480p" mode on youtube. A lot of shouting at the start of this [...]
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In Hungary it is very important to have a fence around your house. The fence should have barb-wire or sharp pointy things at the top, and a sign saying "Tilos". Up to three exclamation marks after "Tilos" can be used for extra effect. An angry barking dog is optional. I managed one A-heat, two-three B-heats, [...]
Building new B and C rigs should be an almost foolproof way of making sure there will be nothing but A-rig during the event on the weekend. We will see.
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22 skippers with guests from RUS, SWE, and NED, in addition to FIN skippers came to this two-day event in Espoo. For me it was a non-event since I don't own the smaller MicroMagic rigs that were required during the first day with steady 7-8m/s and up to 11-12m/s of wind in the gusts. At [...]
12 boats completed 6 races before lunch in light and shifting conditions. After lunch there was no more sailing because of heavy lightning, thunder, and lots of rain. The ball-raced gooseneck with ballbearings around the mast looks nice. Riku had a new boat with aluminium mounts for the sheet and rudder servos instead of the [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
If you ask me there is a lot more Sailing in 20 minutes at the MicroMagic pool than in the rich boys pissing contest they call AC33.
With a boat that had been assembled only three days before the event I sailed in the Finnish MicroMagic nationals that were held over the weekend in Tampere. 14 skippers is ok-ish, but with 70 registered boats I had hoped for an even bigger fleet. Results here: http://fin.micromagic.info/index_files/SM_2009.htm
I got my MicroMagic assembled and sailing three days before the big race which is in Tampere on the weekend.
There is a new generation of low self-discharge NiMH batteries out there, GP calls them Recyko and the Sanyos are called Eneloop. I put together two 4-cell packs for use in the MicroMagic. These have a nominal capacity of 2050 mAh - I will post later some results of discharge tests. Weight seems to be [...]
This is now my third 2.4 GHz radio after first having used a special module on the Futaba 3VCS, and then a Spektrum DX6 with the Noux (now sold). It's the cheapest model, a DX5E, which will be used with my newest boat (soon to be featured on this site...). It seems the Spektrum engineers [...]
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