Official organisations
- The UK MYA site has
the events calendar for the UK and the current national ranking
positions.
- IRSA is the radio
sailing international authority for scoring systems, class rules,
sailing instructions, regatta management, and so on.
- World Sailing 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. Its Web site gives key information
about the class and its international class association, documents,
and links to national class associations.
- IMCA and
ITCA are the international class
associations for the Marblehead and Ten Rater classes respectively.
- The AMYA publishes 'Model
Yachting' quarterly, a superb publication the envy of the model yachting
world.
Trade
- I use RMG winches
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Amateur
Yacht Research Society (AYRS).
Photography
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