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 [...]
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.
I got my MicroMagic assembled and sailing three days before the big race which is in Tampere on the weekend.
The third ranking race of the year gathered 8 boats just outside Carusel in central Helsinki.
The fifth MicroMagic ranking race was sailed today in Vuosaari. Due to the location of the sailing water the wind came with variable strength from a variable direction in all races. I was sailing a loaned boat, and will do so in two weeks time at the national event also (20+ entries I hear!). Might [...]
Model Expo along with cats, dogs, snakes, and Llamas at PetExpo, and everything family-ish you can imagine at Child’08 happened over this weekend at the Helsinki fair centre. Like last year (see here and here), we had the MicroMagic’s sailing in the pool. This year with four less noisy fans and up to 10 boats. [...]
The 2008 Helsinki Boatshow started yesterday with a day for press and other VIPs. Four Micro-Magic boats were sponsored by the Finnish Sailing Federation and its parters, and on Friday a few of the Finnish Olympic sailors got together for some racing in the pool. The show is now open until Sunday 17th, and the [...]
I remember a quote from MMI some years back on the IOM “there’s nothing wrong with it another metre wouldn’t put right!”. Well the days of the A-boat and 10-Raters are pretty much gone in most countries, and now there are a number of sub-1-metre boats or kits becoming popular. Some are popular in great [...]
There’s a new area around Vuosaari in Helsinki being developed and they’ve built a number of channels/ponds close to a park and the golf course. Google map view here. 8 boats, possibly the largest gathering of MicroMagic’s so far in Finland, showed up for some friendly racing today. I tried it too for two races. [...]
Last day at model-expo, my first try at using google video! First the new Futaba 2.4GHz radios. There are two wheel-model radios already on the market, and I was told two stick-radios (a 3-channel and a 6-channel model) will be in stores very shortly. Priced close to the Spektrum offerings at around 200 eur. Then [...]