Yacht Racing Results

www.rugeleymodelclub.org.uk

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

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.

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 the current pdf version of this page.

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.

The winners are listed in the table below :-

Year	Winner
2021	Martin Waller
2020	David Buttress
2019	Peter Pallett

Part 4 - The Brian Rogers Challenge Trophy

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
2021	David Marsh
2020	Peter Pallett
2019	Peter Pallett
2018	Peter Pallett
2017	No racing
2016	Peter Pallett
2015	Peter Pallett
2014	Cyril Horobin
2013	Cyril Horobin

Part 5 - Hints on Radio Sailing

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.

The chart below gives some information about settings for various wind conditions when using a Victoria. Victoria Tuning

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.