Official organisations

• The UK MYA site has the events calendar for the UK and the current national ranking positions.
• ISAF-RSD is the radio sailing international authority for scoring systems, class rules, sailing instructions, regatta management, and so on.
• ISAF is sailing's international organisation for the racing rules of sailing, the equipment rules, regulations concerning international class associations and the recognition of International yacht classes, and so on.
• IOMICA is the official class association for the IOM. It's Web site gives key information about the class and its international class association, documents, and links to national class associations.
• The Phigit Class Site.

Trade

• Ken Binks runs K.Bits.., offering his great wealth of RC experience to go with sales of RC gear and fittings. His site has useful tips on RC gear.
• I use RMG winches and Ken Binks' Hitec 1/4-scale servo conversion to an arm winch with SAILSetc sails.  The SAILSetc site has a useful FAQs page for both the newcomer and the established skipper.
• Model fixings provides radio control modellers with a source of 'engineering parts' (UK).

Forums

• IOMICA runs an IOM Forum as a discussion group. Why not join it if you are an IOM owner?  Hear official, semi-official, and unofficial news and opinions, and offer your own.
• Bill Mullica runs WindPower, a USA-based forum oriented to radio sailing racers.
• Chad runs a general RC sailing forum.
• Serious technical discussion at the Boat Design forum oriented towards full-size.

Individuals

• The sail boat technology site is dedicated to sailing with some very useful resources.  Oriented towards full-size, but very interesting indeed.
• Anders Wallin's Web site is comprehensive and up to date.
• The IOM Compendium pages (aka Duck Soup) are strongly oriented towards the IOM scene in the US of A, but have stuff of interest to all.
• Alan Tong's site is a huge compendium of hobby, model & RC Web links.

Other

• The Vintage Model Yacht Group has a very nicely presented Web site.
• Martin Hepperle's site is a must-browse if you are interested in aerodynamics.  And he has the definitive history of the Cox engines that I loved as a kid.
• The WB Sails site, although aimed at dinghies and "big boats", has much to interest the model racing skipper.
• Lots of aerodynamics links at Prof Selig's page. Follow up on Ken Blackburn's superb site for paper planes at least!
• UK Sailmakers have some delightful software. Give it your (digital) sail photo and it reports the vital statistics: camber, position of maximum draft, relative twist. I show the software in use on my "Measuring sail photos" page.
• Traplet publishes Marine Modelling International, edited by Chris Jackson, and is the only commercial magazine I know of that always devotes 4 to 10 pages per issue to RC yachts. Worth a subscription.  Well, OK, it runs an article from me from time to time, but hey, I'm not biased...
• Instructions for the SAILSetc gauges.

Fun

These are links that catch my attention. They'll change from time to time as I find new sites to feature and old sites to retire.

• Dario Valenza's Web site has been overhauled.  Very nice design, and the boats don't look bad either....
• At Cape Town, many years ago, Angelo Lavranos very kindly sketched me a beautiful Marblehead design. I failed miserably to make a go of it because of my poor building skills, while Angelo has gone from strength to strength as a "real" yacht designer. He has a Web page.
• US Vintage sailing, a very fine Web site.
• The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS).

Personal

• I'm a lecturer at the University of Southampton in the School of Electronics and Computer Science.  E-mail me:  "lg11" at "soton.ac.uk".
• The University is home to the Wolfson Unit MTIA, a world-class commercial aero- and hydro-dynamic centre of excellence, as well as providing world-class research and teaching in its School of Engineering Sciences (incorporating the Department of Ship Science).