Well the ‘Orlando Twins’ are coming along nicely. Both have been finished in spar varnish over the ply hulls and deck with the balsa hatch covers being spray painted in off white, lead bulbs to match. One of these boats is for sale and I just put details of this at the web site. Click [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Pond Sprites for Orlando… pt.2
Posted in model sail boats, tagged Footy yacht, Orlando, Pond Sprite, Rc model, RC yacht on February 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
windy weather footys
Posted in model sail boats, tagged Footy, model yacht, RC boat, sail tuning, sail twist, Scale Sailing on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Over the weekend I was asked for my thoughts on windy weather footy sailing by a group in Florida. I thought more people might be interested in a few ideas of how to handle strong wind conditions and I can perhaps expand here on how I answered them.
The first thing to say is that the wind [...]
