RC Sailboat & Model Sailing Guide

RC Universe has a new position open for a couple of writes for their magazine.

You basically write a product reviews for them and then you can keep the product (e.g new RC Sailboat). So for all who like the latest stuff, this is a good position for you.

You need to be:
1) Must be 18 or older
2) Good writing and communication skills
3) Must be able to meet strict deadlines
4) Must be able to submit your review using your html editor of choice (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, etc.) and RCUs template
5) Must possess SLR digital camera and be capable of taking quality action photos
6) Must possess digital mini dv camera, have help to take video of product in action
7) Must be able to render video footage for web and edit. final format will be wmv ready to play on web

Here is the link to the RC Universe Magazine Writer Position

Good luck and let me know if you managed to get the position.

This is a quick post to convince why model sailing as a wonderful and rewarding hobby.

Firstly – It’s relaxing:
As long as you don’t have a phobia against water, standing and watching over a nice lake or the sea is just wonderful. And compared to a loud RC motorboat, where you constantly need to exchange batteries or fuel up, a RC Sailboat lets you enjoy the atmosphere and you even get the time to watch what else is going on around the lake.

Secondly – Boat Building
If you are in to working with your hands and create beautiful things, then a Model Sailboat should be high on your list. Somebody called it – Art you can play with and that describes it perfectly.

Thirdly – Learn to sail
Honestly, what do you think is more fun? Learning from books or buy playing with a RC Sailboat? Obviously model sailing is especially a good way of teaching sailing fundamentals to children, but also grownups enjoy this hobby where you don’t need to get your feet wet.

Fourthly – Competition RC Sailing
The racing fever will quickly infect you as soon as another RC Sailboat crosses your path. And it is a lot of fun chasing each other of the water, seeing your model sailboat fly across the water just powered by the wind and your skills (Actually check out my review of the Nirvana II to see you don’t really need much skills to get started)

If all this didn’t convince you to start with model sailing as a hobby, than I don’t know what.

The banks dory was a very common type of small dingy taken along on larger fishing schooners or just used by itself. This site describes a little bit more of the history and features detailed build instruction & model sailboat plans for the banks dory. Well worth to check out, but you will need to modify them for making a RC Sailboat out of it.

If you need more plans read my review on this model ship plans dvd.

I got send this link to this really cool gadget for the iPhone that could be very useful to a lot of RC Sailboat captains.
It is a iPhone Application and when you want to know the current wind speed, you just hold your iPhone in to the wind and activate the app.
And it converts between mph, km/h, knots, fps, m/s, and Beaufort.

Click on the picture and you can view their video showing a comparison to a regular hand held wind meter.

PS: What kind of gadgets do you have for the RC Sailboat hobby? Click here to let me know