Yacht Racing Results
www.rugeleymodelclub.org.uk
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Part 1 - This year's Results
             ( DF95, Victoria & Aldridge MBC Joint Meeting )
Part 2 - Yacht Sail Numbers
Part 3 - The Cyril Horobin Yachting Trophy
Part 4 - The Brian Rogers Challenge Trophy
Part 5 - Hints on Radio Sailing
Part 6 - Previous Year's Results
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Part 1.1 - This Year's DF95 Results
Click on results to download a pdf copy of the results.
Part 1.2 - 2022 Aldridge & Rugeley Annual Challenge Results
Click on results to download a pdf copy of the results.
The 2022 event took place on a challenging windy day, with gusting to 22mph. Sid Sims won the 2022 Aldridge/Rugeley
Horn Challenge Trophy. (Peter Pallett 2019, Bill Woodward 2020, Les Prew 2021, Sid Sims 2022)
The repeat challenge is booked for 3rd September 2022.
Part 1.3 - This Year's Victoria and DF65 Results
The Victorias and DF65s raced together as small numbers involved. Click on results to download a pdf copy of the results / See Racing Timetable on left.
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Part 2 - Yacht Sail Numbers
Sail numbers currently in use for Victoria and DF95 yachts for Rugeley and Aldridge Model Boat Clubs are collated by the
each club's race co-ordinator.
Click on the image to download a pdf copy of the file.
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Part 3 - The Cyril Horobin Yachting Trophy
The Cyril Horobin Yachting Trophy was presented to the Chairman of Rugeley Model Club on 15th April 2019
by the late Cyril Horobin, who was a very distinguished model yacht sailor who had been involved with the Rugeley Power
Station Model club since its inception in the 1980 s.
Cyril was highly respected amongst the model yacht fraternity in the UK, and is best known at RMBC for finding wind in
a "dead calm'"
The trophy, designed and commissioned by Cyril, is sculptured coloured glass in shape of a yacht in full sail mounted
on a wooden base.
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The winners are listed in the table below :-
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Year |
Winner |
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2021 |
Martin Waller |
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2020 |
David Buttress |
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2019 |
Peter Pallett |
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Part 4 - The Brian Rogers Challenge Trophy
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The Brian Rogers Challenge Trophy was presented to the Rugeley Power Station Model Club in 2012 by the late
Brian Rogers, a past Chairman and the then President of Rugeley Power Station Model Club. |
Brian presented the trophy to promote the regular racing of Victoria Yachts. The winners of the Trophy are listed below :-
Year |
Winner |
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2021 |
David Marsh |
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2020 |
Peter Pallett |
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2019 |
Peter Pallett |
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2018 |
Peter Pallett |
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2017 |
No racing |
2016 |
Peter Pallett |
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2015 |
Peter Pallett |
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2014 |
Cyril Horobin |
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2013 |
Cyril Horobin |
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Part 5 - Hints on Radio Sailing
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There are some excellent tips and hints for
ALL Radio Sailors in an article by Brad Gibson, click on the icon at right. His web site for Sails & Design, is given in
our Useful links web page - see top left.
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The chart below gives some information about settings for various wind conditions when using a Victoria.
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The information is provided by Ray Seta - Victoria 2424K(USA) and the chart is at the end of his seven page
article "Time to get Serious with Tuning.".
If you click on the link you can download a copy.
Note that the setting position is to put a mark 40 1/8 th inches up the mast.
If you have lost your original Victoria Instruction Manual then Peter Pallett has a pdf copy in colour that he could email to you.
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Part 6 - Previous Six Year's Results
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2021 Results
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2020 Results
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2019 Results
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2018 Results
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2017 - No racing this year.
2016 Results
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2015 Results
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