Footy "Bug" Plans - £3.50, Roger Stollery's famous - easy build - BUG3 design. See BUG photos in the photo gallery here, here, here and here. For details on how to order, see the LINKS page.

Since over 50% of registered Footy owners have now agreed to the proposed change to the class charter, the amendment is deemed to have been passed. Full details of the voting will be published in a day or so after final verification (one member of the Committee is on holiday). The amended charter is available here.

Since the mechanisms for appointment of national registrars have now been ironed out, we should very much like to encourage Footy owners from as many countries as possible to join the club. We will do everything we can to facilitate your becoming your country’s registrar. Contact another national registrar for help. Remember that if there’s only you, the work is effectively zero: when other people join in, pass the job on.

[For the Footy Class Management Committee]

We will be organizing an informal heat of the NZ Postal Classic on April 22nd at the home pond of the SDRCMYC in South Daytona, in NE Florida. While details are not yet complete we plan to race the standard internet course, with individual timed heats for each boat entered. All Footy's are welcome, results for boats that comply with the Footy Class box rule will be posted and e-mailed to NZ. Tentative start time is 10am. For further information contact Paul Taylor muddauber22000@yahoo.com.

John Amoroso will be taking over the duties of National Registrar from Bill Hagerup for American boats. Bill remains the AMYA Class Secretary, so AMYA members will continue to contact Bill. John and Bill will keep each other informed so no duplicate numbers are assigned.

The Triangle Model Yacht Club will be hosting a Footy regatta in conjunction with the New Zealand Postal Classic. Like other regattas this one will be held on April 22nd, 2007. The site is Lake Johnson in Raleigh, NC, USA. For more details see the announcement on this website.

Brett McCormack, founder of the Footy class is resigning as chairman of the Technical team to focus his time solely on boat design. Bill Hagerup will resign as US national representative and take over as chairman. He will be joined on the Technical team by Earl Boebert from the USA and Roger Stollery from the UK. Angus Richardson is resigning from the Technical Committee, while remaining as the national representative for the UK.

Earl Boebert is a distingished computer scientist and an authority on the history of model yachts. He is the author of the "Yankee III - Build and Sail a Famous J-Class Yacht" and editor of the US Vintage Model Yacht Group newsletter. He also established the US VMYG website). One of his particular interests is the history of measurement rules.

Roger Stollery is a retired architect and the Technical Secretary of the MYA. He is one of Britain's foremost and most innovative model yacht designers of the last 40 years. He was the Chairman of the working party that drew up the current Footy box rule.

Barrett Sparkman is offering a fiberglass Footy hull for $40. View details of his "Bearfoot" hull on his website, Sparkman Micro Marine.

The first Footys in Sweden have made their appearance. Svenska Modellseglarförbundet (the Swedish national radio sailing authority) have given Per Dahlström of Huddinge permission to act as the National Registrar. For registration questions in Sweden, he can be contacted at per@exacta.nu. Apart from trying to expand the class in Sweden, Per is hoping to attend one of the events being run in UK this summer.

The people who originally crafted the Footy class rules have recently taken a trip down memory lane to provide a look at the original rationale behind many of their decisions. Roger Stollery has distilled and chronicled these as a document entitled MYA 2005 Footy Class intentions.

Nigel Heron reports... "The basic boat (hull, deck, transom, hatch, floatation bulkhead, rudder support), is ready for production. As of today, I am taking orders. Processing will be done on a first come / first serve basis. Photos of finished product will soon be ready (#1 was layed up today). In time, keel, keel box / mast support, and rudder will be available." The price shown on his website is $99. Visit his website Heron Composites.