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The Footy is...
... a very small radio-control sailboat whose length is a mere 12 inches (30.5 cm). The hull can be made from a fiberglass mold or simply with thin sheets of plywood fitted together. Two servos are used, one to control the sail and one for the rudder. Some plans are availble for sale, some for free. Links may be found on the Plans page.
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.
There is an active and growing community of Footy sailors in New Zealand, the U.K., Germany and the USA. In the USA it is now an official AMYA class.
We hope that this website will help focus these efforts both in the USA and abroad. Please contact the webmaster (see below) if you have any material you'd like to contribute to the site!
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We now have a French footy website link on the LINKS page. Wayne Russell's bottle yacht appears in the PHOTOS sections and a link off the PLANS page. Marcus Wahlin hopes to offer plans for his Breithorn soon, but plans for the sail rig are available now for five Swiss francs (about $5). Look under "Kit Sources" on the LINKS page. Novrizal Herdananto from Indonesia sends photos of his first Footy. Tony Ashdon sends photos of his WoodenBoat Store plans boat (the design is called Brando). By coincidence, I have also heard from Brando's designer, Flavio Faloci. He sends pictures of his Presto design as well as many more pictures from the Italian fleet. See the LINKS page for a URL or just visit woodenboatstore.com and search for Footy. They also carry a book Flavio wrote on building Presto as well as a kit. Flavio has also created a new Italian Footy website (see the LINKS page). Bill Hagerup has sent me a rule clarification for Footys, affecting above deck brackets for routing the sheet. There's a link at the top of the TECHNICAL page. And lastly Brazil's Frederico Schmidt Filho has created an English language blog on Footy design. Look under "Blogs" on the LINKS page.
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Last updated
January 29, 2012