READING ARTICLES ON THE NET:
If the article is relatively long, and you want to save online time. Let the page load and then save it to your hard disk, go off-line and read the article at your leasure, you can either delete the page after, or keep it for future reference.
 

RC BOAT HANDLING - Tips on how to handle and transport you rc boat
 

WIND INDICATORS:
If you find it hard to determine where the wind is actually blowing from the rc boat's prospective, find a damaged or about to be trashed cassette tape. Use the cassette ribbon as tell tails and as a wind indicator. I found that attaching 5 to 6 inches of tape to my backstay works, though gluing them on a piece of thin wire and attaching the wire on the mast head works best.  (a very great modeller/member even made a windex out of aluminum, lead and the ribbon from a VHS tape, worked great)

BOATSTAND:
If you still don't have a proper boatstand, make one now.  How to make a boatstand. Not only will it save your boat from tipping over and accidents, you will be able to display it in your house!

MINI SOLING OFFICIAL SAIL NUMBER:
Make your own boat number by using MS Word. Purchase self adhesive sheets sold by printer manufacturers for bubble jet printers.  (you can get these at computer shops).  Open MS Word and choose "Arial Narrow" as font, and type 140 as font size and click on BOLD.  Type your number, make a pair of each number for both sides of the sail.  Print out using black bubble jet printer.  The output is the official size of the PRSC Minisoling Sail number.  Before applying the sticker, coat the sticker with clear coat of enamel or acrylic laquer paint, try to use the paint on a test number, just to be sure that the paint won't blot the ink.  The clear coat is to waterproof  your sticker.

GANGING UP SERVOS: (contributed by Joel Paje)
If  you are one among lots of RC enthusiasts that think buying a Sail Servo or high torque servo is an expensive proposition, yet you are stuck with lots of "stock" small servos you can gang up 2 or more servos to make them work together to handle higher loads. This system is very helpful if you find that you have lots of normal servos like Futaba S148s in your tool box and you need a strong system for your Sail control (sail sheets).
 
 

The servos can be wired so that they will be controlled by only one channel, which means it will still be legal for class rules that restricts radio controls to only 2 channels.
 

INSTANT BOWSIES: (contributed by Joel Paje)
If  you find yourself needing a bowsie or two quickly, you may try this.... most of us have a lot of spare servo horns and arms lying around.  You can make bowsies out of the servo arms.

Just cut off one of the arms of a multi arm servo and shape it a bit.  You may also need to increase the diameter of the holes.  These makes quick and easy bowsies.  Just make sure that the servo horns you are cutting up are your extras, we suggest one should cut only 2 arms, so that you are still left with a conventional 2 arm horn, just in case.