Pawel Dejnak's May calendar page. The photo is by Artur Palka. The skippers are Dalibor Sebera Jr., Klara Seberova and Dalibor Sebera Sr.. The boats are Esterels from Claudio Diolaiti France.

The delay in publishing this page is due to the webmaster!

Pawel Dejnak's April calendar page. Pawel writes:

In April, Roger Stollery's ICE sailing boat glows in our calendar. This is the top model of British yachts for the last 8 years. Since 2010 (EU GP Wroclaw / POL, skipper Rob Vice) have won many international regattas in Europe. These have very light, carbon hulls with a characteristic widening of the bow. One of the few models of this class today with double sails and a swing rig.

This is one of the first examples of the latest technologies in the class of one-foot yachts: Red Tide from the Bill Hagerup design office (he is US class recorder, a well-known designer and committed propagator of our model class). It has been designed and printed in 3D technology and is available as print files. It's a great help and a great promotion of the class - it already inspires skippers in many countries.

Everything seems to indicate that we will see boats from the printer more often at the footy regatta. Thank you Bill!

More information about this project and about this successor (Green Hornet) can be found on this website in the "News" tab

The Footy Registrar for Poland, Pawel Dejnak, is preparing a Footy calendar for 2018. No, it's not a list of Footy events, but 12 handsome pictures of Footys in the more typical wall calendar format. If you're in Europe and wish to enquire about buying a paper copy, contact Pawel at zpmmdk1@wp.pl". But he has graciously offered electronic versions of January & February for you to download. As Pawel himself says:

I am convinced that making them available (maybe even the return of photos to the Model Yachting magazine cover...?) would motivate other skippers to be more active - in promoting this class of models too (maybe in the future would create other national calendars, gadgets, T-shirts, etc ...?).
January:
In the picture adorning the first calendar card is the most refined in detail Polish sailboat from the Poznan studio of Piotr Lenartowicz (so far made only in one copy).

Although it is not often seen in regattas, it has already demonstrated very good nautical properties, giving its constructor a place on the national podium. It is worth remembering the author - probably we will see more than once interesting solutions and his photos from model shipyard.

This photo (just like the whole e-calendar) is prepared in A4 (+ 3mm offset), 200 dpi resolution.

You can use them for printing on a home printer in a quite decent quality.
February:
The decoration of our calendar card for this month is one of the best models of the FOOTY class in the Americas, which was developed by Chris Staiger (USA), and in the form of kits for self-assembly produced by Dick McCoy (USA). This particular toothed basin shark was made by Stanley Townsend (also from the USA). More information, photos and links regarding this design can be found on Polish Footy Class Association website - modelmaniak.pl/category/footy-pol/footutrendy)

Click any image to download the full-size copy. And if this seems a little late to post a January calendar, blame the editor (me!) not Pawel!

You can print your own R/C racing yacht and have it on the water in a week. Green Hornet is a Footy Class sailboat that can be used for fun in your swimming pool or as a highly competitive race boat for international competition. You can find information about it here: //www.thingiverse.com/thing:2611611

Print files are provided for the complete hull, fin, and rudder. You may need to resize the fin and rudder before printing. I recommend that the fin be 45mm wide and 200mm long. The rudder should be 35mm wide and 150mm long.

Complete instructions for assembling your Footy are at //3dprintedradioyachts.com/ where you will also find much useful information on printing 3D boats from Footy size to IOM.

We welcome Bill Hagerup back as head of the US Footy organization! He also sends us photos of a new boat. Bill writes:

These are Footys made on a 3D printer. The hulls, fin, and rudders are all printed. I sent my design CAD files to my Australian friend, Selwyn Holland, who used them to print the parts and send them to me. We've been working on this project for about a year, and it has really come together nicely. In addition to Footys, we are doing RG65s, Nanos, and we are on our third IOM prototype. It's an exciting technology that I think has tremendous potential for the future of radio sailing.

Hopefully Bill will supply more details in the future.

Niels Looff from Hannover/Germany has sent us a note and pictures of his two Footy's:

"The yellow one is a 2014 plan-built "Easy III" but with removable keelfin. This is very good for packing and traveling. I took it with me several times on vacation in my suitcase while flying by plane. The whole sailing gear is just under 1,5kg. I have always been allowed to sail the hotel pool in quieter hours. Once I tried the Atlantic Ocean but the saltwater has eaten the contact pins of the switch, apart from that all worked well and the tiny boat could handle the waves pretty well."

 
"The white one is a scaled down Optimist Dinghy from 2015, quite similar to the one I sailed on my own when I was young. Therefore it's given G-7223, my own reg-nr from those days. I adapted the original measurements with longer fin and bigger rudder for scale performance but fitting to Footy-Rules. I also made a special rig, creating the illusion of a scale Optimist rig/sail but having more area, approx equal to EasyIII.

This hull does perform just OK, but not as good as the EasyIII, therefor I prefer the EasyIII from 1-6Bft with several rigs."

 
See more pictures of Niels' boats in the PHOTOS section of the website. Why not send me stories about YOUR boats?

Sébastien has sent a lot of nice photos of his building process for a couple of Footys. He begins with making his own fiberglass hulls along the lines of a Razor 3. He also casts his own keel weights using a wooden original he turned on his lathe. I've placed several pictures in the Gallery, but here is a montage of some of the others he sent. If you'd like to see the whole process, visit his Flickr pages.

The current issue of the AMYA's Model Yachting magazine #174 is entirely devoted to the Footy class. Here is the table of contents:

• Introducing the Footy Class, by Bill Hagerup.
• Fascinating Footys, by Scott Spacie.
• A Footy Fanatic - the Wife's View, by Sheila Ryan.
• Building a Cheap, Simple Competitive Rig, by Bill Hagerup.
• Building the Back Bay Footy, by Bill Hagerup.
• Footy Vacation Cartoon, by Ralph Kanko.
• High-tech Hull Plugs using CAD and CAM, by Craig Huzway.
• Building HalfPint Too, by Bill Hagerup.
• SF Footy Program Inspires Young Sailors, by Bob Heacock.
• A Free-sailing Footy for Young Skippers, by Mark Whitehead.
• Creative Thinking Inside the Box, by Niel Goodrich.
• Building a Footy Cassette, by Peter Jackson.
• Building the Puma 305, by Paul Risdale.
• A Soft-sail Swing Rig, by Roger Stollery.
• SliM Footy-Winner of the 2013 Gold Cup, by Phil Tyler.
• Red TYDE, by Nathan Titcomb.
• Footy Kits, Compiled by Peter Shepherd.
• With a Little Help from my Friends, by Bill Hagerup.

Since my last update, the Footy 507 has gone on sale in Australia, there's more on the LINKS page, or visit his gospectre website

We are pleased to welcome several new registrars:

• Canada: Bruce Grainger
• France: Jean-François Bessière
• S. Africa: Gavin Katts
• Slovenia: Eric Jankovic
• UK: Peter Jackson

In the PHOTOS section we have a number of new additions:

• Chris Mancini's free-sailing Footy prototype for a youth program at the Center for Wooden Boats.
• Jim Knorr sends photos of 3 boats built from free plans.
• "Karo" from Erik Jankovic (more info in his blog

Peter Henderson sends the latest info on his "1299". Find it on the LINKS page or Click here.

And finally, be sure to visit Erik Jankovic's Footy blog