RC Sailboat & Model Sailing Guide

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.

Model Sailboat - Art you can play with

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.

iPhone Wind App

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

This years UK Model Boat event is up in May 23. & 24. in Wicksteed Park and if you live close by, you shouldn’t miss it.

See here a video of the event in the news:

Have fun. Wish I could be there.

I want to congratulate the RC Universe forum, which has now 400,000 registered members and is certainly one of the biggest and most active rc online communities around. It’s one of the forums I frequently visit, but for more RC sailing specific information I recommend to also look at t the rcgroups and the rcsailing.net forums.
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