See the Footy types & our extensive "How to" pages.
The Footy class is a development class which means that anything not strictly prohibited by the rules is allowed, it has a growing following in the UK and is now an affiliated class of the Model Yachting Association of Great Britain. To keep competition keen, the Footy designers have proposed a set of rules to keep all the boats similar to a certain degree. Visit the Rules page for details. |
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Mad March Hare
Whitefriars Sailing Club Sat 26th March 2022 |
Hollowell Radio Sailing Club Open
Hollowell Sailing Club Sun 22nd May 2022 Provisional Aldridge Open
Aldridge MBC Sat 18th June 2022 Birmingham MYC Open
Sutton Sailing Club Sat 16th July 2022 |
MYA Acquaint Magazine Article
Has recently published an article about building the Fat Boy Slim, to find the further details referred to within the article please click here.
It has now been ten years since the Footy Class has it's first set of rules published and the technical office of the MYA were very much involved in the inception of those first rules. Being as much time has passed since the early days of Bobabout we thought it was time we took a look at one of the latest diagonal yachts and it's construction........ |
Cheddar Steam Club Day
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After a brief conversation at this years Mad March Hare with a couple of Footy curious Cheddar Steam Club members and ourselves, we hatched a plan to attend their club and hold a Footy Day, where some of us who are longer in the tooth than others could pass along some of our experience to their skippers.
We arrived mid morning to a very warm welcome from the assembled members, after the introductions were all completed we ran a short lecture on the model yacht racing with Footy class yachts which touched upon everything from how it should fit in the box, the basic rules of racing to course setting skills. Read More |
With a number of the leading Footy skippers recently switching to 750 mAh single cell 3.7V LiPo batteries linked to a voltage booster for increased reliability we thought it was time we covered their safe usage in another of our useful articles. Click Here
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The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot the sail number No1, this is the first Modern Era Footy to enter the UK, a Bobabout brought here by John Cadenhead of Southwater Dabblers after a vist to Brett McCormack in NZ
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"Nipper" by Bill Hagerup - a starters designWhen Footy Guru Bill Hagerup was asked by the members of Back Bay Skippers Club, Wolfeboro, NH. to design a Footy for their members to build, he came up with the Back Bay "Nipper". As many of the prospective builders were inexperienced scratch builders he kept it simple but maintained many of the features of the more exotic Footys within these pages, consequently what we have is a simple to build, inexpensive, good performing Footy ideal for builders just starting out. Click the links To see Bill's full build details & sail designs.
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New Soft Sail Details from Roger Stollery
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Red Box Details Now here
Peter Jackson has recently been using a hull called the Red Box in many of the UK Footy events, the hull is a balsa derivative of the leading Footy ICE design. His results with this hull have been reasonably impressive with many top three finishes this year and a victory in the last round of the Midland Footy League. Peter has now taken the CAD drawing and converted them to a pdf format so that they can be down loaded and printed on A4.
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