- Finished off the 2025 IOM North Americans With Three Bangs in a Row!💥💥💥
Great event, great organizers, great RC, great PRO, and fantastic conditions equaled a ton of races. V12 was quick although a bit leaky. Venti quicker overall although downwind in 7-8 plus knots the V12’s downwind speed is insane. - A Vaughny Christmas
- Kawa on Winning FAI SGP World Final in St. Auban
Kawa made this very cool, although very oddly translated from Polish as usual, describing his victory at this event (2 years ago now). He has immense talent, but this venue is extremely favoring for the French and for the “St. Auban mountain rats” who fly there regularly and literally know every tiny nuance of the entire tasking area. Kawa overcame them. - USA DF95 Nationals 2025 Newport RI
- When you buy Euros at the perfect time…
- Isreal thanks President Trump for Peace deal as does Pakistan (nominated Trump for Nobel asked for recount), Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc, etc.
- tiny Lewi Hamilton, BLM ✊🏽 Sock Puppet, just saw his career end today (see results of 2025 testing, and I, for one, am DELIGHTED #BuhByeLilLewi #FuckOff
fuck off, way off, you woke little racist bitch - The ISCA / Sunfish Class and Laser Performance / Sero Innovation / Sunfish Direct soap opera of ridiculous idiocy continues to be a hilarious source of popcorn level entertainment 😂
https://www.sunfishclass.org/breakingnews_20250207 - 33 on the Ship 🛳️
It is always a very nervous time (and cool) to have something significant (car, airplane, boat, etc) being shipped to and from overseas. My new glider is currently on its way to the United States from Germany 🇩🇪. It is currently in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It passed thru a significant storm yesterday. That was fun to watch (7m waves)! The ship, the Siem Aristotle, is a car carrier for Volkswagen exclusively and they are willing to take on other vehicles as room permits. The price for shipping the glider trailer (30ftx6ftx8ft) was fairly reasonable price. Only about … [Read more…] - Wauquiez 55 Mega Cruising Sail Yacht
- WOKE LIBTARD DEMOCRAT DEI HIRING INSANITY THE CAUSE OF THE DC AMERICAN AIRLINES DISASTER?
Whenever you search something and are bombarded by leftist media all writing frothing stories about how Trump is wrong, you know damn well he is probably right. History is a bitch, huh democrats? Go ahead, search for yourselves “DEI cause of DC collision disaster” or whatever you choose. Any article or story which explores that question is suppressed and dozens of liberal writers at Democrat media shitholes with zero credibility are shoved down your throat and propped up as being credible. This is another example of democrats being embarrassed and afraid of being exposed. Their DEI push is blowing up … [Read more…] - RPM (Rocket Powered Mohawk) EVISCERATES Red Bulls Christain Hordog and his Sex Scandal.
- The Woke Biden Democrat DEI FAA ATC IS THE CUASE OF THE MASS FATALITY DC COLLISION 🚁💥✈️, period. End of discussion.
Here are the reciepts… - My take on the Reagan Airport Mass Fatality Collision Between an American Airlines CRJ and a US Government Helicopter Last Evening. 67 Dead, Horribly.
Below is the sobering video of the impact/crash. 67 human lives going well to being dead in 15 seconds. Below is IMO the best guy on the internet for aviation crash details. He’s a current airline pilot so he’s compromised as he would lose his job for being to harsh (telling the whole truth), but he’s excellent nonetheless. My thoughts… - New Page for new AS33Es
Linky here —> AS33Es SF - Fighter plays in Norway 🇳🇴 Mountains 🏔️
#YeahBuddy - Champion of Champions of Toy Boats 😂
- One of these days I’m not going to make 10 stupid mistakes and will win by 40 points…might be the next life but it WILL happen
- Routing this morning
- 2024-2025 Vendee Globe Record 64 Days!!!!!
- “Something truly wicked this way comes,” direct from rural Germany 🇩🇪 #craftsmanship
First couple photos of our AS33Es have come from Schleicher! I’m looking forward to it. - SailGP Dubai underway this weekend
- Vendée Globe Report from the SeanVerse!
Report Monday November 18, 2024 The huge brass balls move of Jean Le Cam in his non foiling yacht is going to pay off for the next 36 hours as the strong Northerly (predicted clearly in the models 3-4 days ago) has materialized between western African and the Cape Verde islands. Now the majority of the fleet is going to likely be stuck in a growing ridge of high pressure in the mid Atlantic. How long is they key. Could be up to 48 hours in my estimation. Le Cam is off to the races now, he will not be … [Read more…] - V’s first school pics…
- AS33 is the best glider in the world!?
The new 18 meter class world champion certainly believes that the Schleicher AS-33 is the world’s best sailplane. By factor of task speeds to wingspan and price, it clearly is. - The AMA is dead 💀 and so are clunky childless RC clubs. The end.
- Grid Walk 2024 FAI 18 Meter World Gliding Championships (Uvalde, TX, USA 🇺🇸)
- New Venti is Pretty Quick
- Brutal day of strategic carnage at the USA 🇺🇸 18,15,&Club class Nationals in Hobbs, NM.
Full report in yesterday’s entry, but ZO (my 33 for the 2024 World Gliding Championships Uvalde USA) took a gear up landing on concrete Uuuoofff!!!). My 18m teammate had a bit of a “moment” during his land out yesterday resulting in some moderate “kinkage” or “crackage” before the dust finally settled. No pics to share but it’s not sounding great, good or mild. I think ZO will be fixed in time for the Worlds by Williams in California, but XC is in a bit of bother and that may not be repairable by mid August. Hopefully another glider can be … [Read more…] - Sean’s new VENTI!
Venti comes in soon 😳 #DeadSexy 👙 - 1978 PSA San Diego Crash
A glimpse of the true nature of a major airliner crash…just bits… - Delta, a Drag Queen Promoting Gay Woke Bullshit Airlines. Fucking Gross.
- RC Crash of Legend ⚡️ 💥 🔥 ☠️
- 2024 Perry “Region 5 North” Contest Summary
Huge thanks to Commander Rich Owen for offering me the opportunity to fly his beautiful new Schleicher AS33 Es this season in the build up towards the 2024 FAI World Gliding Championships to be held in our homeland at Uvalde, Texas. The glider is a weapon, and I think I am just beginning to learn the true potential of the sailplane. I started a little cautiously, but slowly moved forward until yesterday in a difficult and ultra short 1.5 Area Task I was able to get second for the day and surpass the two competitors who remained ahead of me … [Read more…] - Brilliant 25-foot cruising sailboat
Packed with interesting ideas and innovations | sailing the Cape Cod 767 | Yachting World (youtube.com) Tons of cool innovations. - When he falls asleep on his own ❤️
- The greatest YouTube channel of all time! #RocketPoweredMohawk ❤️
- CONDOR is BACK BABY!
I’m getting back on the saddle and going all in. Davis Chappins has been building up a huge group of pilots and they are flying extremely well. It’s a challenge to compete with them, but im getting after them on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Condor Club Competitions US Soaring) and doing various other Condor Events. The SSA is starting to get involved, more soon! Thank you Davis, Andy, and the US Soaring gang. Great discord channel to check out, also contained in the US Soaring Condor Club competition page. - New Playlist: 2023 USA Gliding National Championships Uvalde Texas Flight Analysis Sean Fidler 7TJust started my latest “light” analysis of each contest task from the USA 2023 18 meter Gliding National Championship. I managed to win again and really flew one of my best ever competitions. I felt very in control the whole event and almost blew it open. The final day was a little less than optimal but my plan was to stay conservative and knew I hade over a 14 minute gap to still win the contest based on the racing task distance. I fill you in more on that later. Anyway, here is the first video for task 1. Subscribe … [Read more…]
- “Somehow” the SSA (USA’s Soaring Govt) has managed to add contests into the IGC rankings in a very peculiar way. 🤔
This FAI Gliding WORLD (isn’t that ironic? lol) ranking appears to have been “earned” at a US Regional competition (Perry) for the open class division. This was not (to the best of my knowledge) a US nationals from what is listed in the ranking (REGIONALS). It was flown under US RULES, using US tasking (Area, MATS) and very likely included no racing tasks. Other US pilots, for example ;-), have won 3 US Nationals in a row in 18m (highly attended, strong pilots by both US and FAI ranking standards) in 2021, 2022, and 2023. From an FAI and US … [Read more…] - Eagle says “eat my wake” pal!
Team 7T is enjoying our US National Soaring Championship CHARLIE SPRATT 18 Meter Class Trophy immensely! After three years of winning it, but not taking it home with us to enjoy, we finally got it (thank you!). It is exquisitely detailed, solid bronze (I believe), and absolutely beautiful. A really cool soaring trophy! I’m very proud to have my name on it. Having three in a row in a field as competitive as we have today is a feather in the cap for sure. The fact that there was no name plate on the trophy when we received it remains … [Read more…] - Flight Reviews for all tasks of the 2021 18m USA 🇺🇸 National Championship held in Nephi, Utah
Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlXIESJdn64FIcoYNeF3ZkrmlVh90FJog&si=Udn8TVSdurKpGRrb - Sebastian Kawa outlines his FAI SGP World Championship win at St. Auban (#18?)
Amazing pilot. - Awesome 2023 “wrap up” video. Incredible scenes!
Nothing, absolutely nothing compares to the sport of Gliding or Sailplane racing. The highest performance aircraft on the planet, racing over incredible mountains and thru incredible weather, against an elite international group of pilots who have reached the summit of something that very few can despite a lifetime of trying. - winning and winning and winning and winning 🏆
It’s time for a quiet victory lap. It just is. Literally ALL (100%, even AHRS) of my opinions expressed in years of various RAS comments (which they triggered and turned into shit fights as they do with anything they don’t like on RAS, also failed now 😂) and on social media are winning in the Soaring Society of Americas desperate annual contest pilot US rules “opinion poll” despite a decade of various desperate good old boy efforts to try and “tune out” my influence. Hi John. I utilized a long list of sensible, well thought out arguments supported by facts … [Read more…] - US 🇺🇸 Soaring Team Ranking for 18m Class 2024
Sweep 🧹 😂 Very satisfying and enjoyable to win “three in a row” of the USA’s 🇺🇸 most challenging class (18-meter) at three of the most challenging contest venues in the United States! Nephi, Utah is the USA’s best high speed mountain 🏔️ flying site. World record speeds were achieved by many of the pilots flying at this contest, including the fastest competition task speed ever recorded. Bermuda High is one the USA’s best East Coast “flat-land” thermal soaring sites and the conditions for this one were significantly suppressed making it a great weak weather test. And Uvalde is, simply … [Read more…] - IOM North Americans 2023 (Hobe Sound, FL)
- Final Results 37th FAI World Gliding Championship 2023 (low performance), Narromine, Australia 🇦🇺
SSA/USA Team Highlighted… - V’s First School Photo
- New Sails for my DF95. Graphite Sails by John Tushingham.
- Report on the 2023 DF95 USA Nationals hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club (Texas)
Results are not available as of this entry. The DF95 class really needs to improve its process of posting regatta results somewhere consistently. Facebook (Farce-book) should not be the (official or unofficial) means of this. I don’t mean to nag, but I think this issue happens too often. Let’s get our shit together folks. The top 5 were Peter Feldman, Brian Shores, Steve Landeau, Sean Fidler, and Barr Batzer. Update: here are the final results, which became available at some point after the event. Peter Feldman was outstanding. A well deserved championship. It’s slightly frustrating to experience his dominance but … [Read more…] - Open FAI Gliding World Championship, overall results
After second competition day… - DF95 USA 🇺🇸 Nationals 2023 later this week…
Hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club (Texas). Link to the event here: https://www.theamya.org/RegattaDetail.asp?RGID=10217Facebook Pages here: DRAGONFLIGHT95 USA: https://m.facebook.com/groups/dragonflite95usaDRAGON SAILING NORTH AMERICA: https://www.facebook.com/DragonSailingNA Results? These websites are really disorganized and poor, like facebook and social media in general. There is generally no set place for results. I’ll do my best to update on Sean-Verse and have no interest in trying to herd these cats into a useful or functional single website source for information. #laziness And as always I’ll be reporting things here on my censorship free lowly old website, the Sean-Verse! - 2023 IOM Nationals Final Results, Photos…
https://www.iomusa.org/_files/ugd/6111bf_f3bbcaaf24ab45c2a6898b8695580165.pdf https://www.iomusa.org/completed-events This was a very well run event, great venue, and great competition, especially among the top 3 competitors Mark Golison, Peter Feldman and Sean Fidler who were all tied going into the final day. Sean had a poor race but Peter and Marks event came down to the final race as they were literally TIED going into it. Congrats to all the competitors and hosts. The IOM class is as hot as it gets right now! - 2023 IOM USA 🇺🇸 National Championship going into the final day! Very close for the top 3!
- 2023 IOM USA 🇺🇸 NATIONALS, Hampton VA
RESULTS HERE —-> https://www.iomusa.org/_files/ugd/e20d6e_a8d45294f160471f89fc3576ee1a38ea.pdf Awesome pics, as always, from Jen. My boat is USA 91, a Kantun 2 from Croatia 🇭🇷. Very nice until it gets bent and leaks… - Excellent Drone Video of the 2023 European IOM Continental Championship (Race Gold 2)
- IOM South American Continental Championship 2023
Live coverage from SailboatRC - Hangar Winter 🥶 Storage
- V and his Cousin
- 2011 IOM Worlds 🌎! As Good As It Gets!!! Great Documentary.
Brad Gibson congratulates 2011 IOM World Champion Peter Stollery! - 2023 RC Laser Nationals
Hosted by Metedeconk River YC in Brick NJ, this was a really great event and a great time. Amazing club, amazing members, amazing food, great bar, beautiful weather and RC Lasers are VERY cool boats to sail. Thank you all! Judy Bonanno photos (excellent): https://judybonanno.smugmug.com/Sailing/LASER/RC-Laser-National-Championship-R Quick Video Mash Up of Judy’s Videos… Photos of my boat #77 below… - Vaughn Halloween 🎃 Costume at Out Fire Station
Vaughn’s costume is, once again, Baby Maverick ✈️ 😂 - Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Start in Huge Winds Ahead of HUUGE Atlantic Storm
- Vaughn’s Halloween Pumpkin 🎃 2023
He truly loves Halloween 👻 - Van’s Aircraft Close To Bankruptcy
I have never seen a cheaper subset of people in aviation than the Van’s aircraft folks. I’ve listened to them argue some of the most ridiculously incoherent points when it comes to their view of what “affordable” aviation is. Van’s owners often openly scoff at certified aircraft or even slightly more expensive experimental aircraft as being “ridiculous.” Over time, I have slowly formed the opinion that many Vans owners (and fans) were idiots when it came to expectations and reality of aviation cost. I’m laughing a bit after watching the video below (Vans aircraft founder explaining the dire financial situation … [Read more…] - New All White K2 IOM USA 🇺🇸 91
Thank you Kiwi for taking these photos. Fun day of practice today in Michigan with 5 IOM’s in attendance at Cabela’s in Dundee, MI. Breeze was 6-12 mph. Temperature was 60-70 degrees. A really nice day. The new K2 was OUTSTANDING. Today was its first sail. Wow. Really magnificent. Well done SailboatRC! - Selling my 6.4 meter ASH-31
Wait until you get a load of the new one… - The ULTIMATE F1 Analysis 🧐, PERIOD, END OF DISCUSSION 😂
- 2023 IOM Euro Champ Drone Videos HERE
All the best 2023 IOM World Championship Video’s (drone videos) here: https://youtube.com/@regatecomhr?si=Z05LkFNmFS54OfzN - Zero Britpop’s in the Top 10 at the 2023 IOM European Championships
The end of the Britpop as a competitive IOM in my opinion. Still a very good boat, with an Amazing run of success over a very long period, just not good enough, anymore, to race at the highest levels of the IOM class. The IOM class is, still and at the end of the day, about innovation, at least in hull and keel/rudder shape. This end of life cycle for the once dominant Britpop is fun and refreshing in its own way… It’s great to see those working hard on innovation, Sailboat RC, Alioth, Venti, and others, making tangible progress! … [Read more…] - The USA 18m Class Sailplane Racing National Championship Trophy 🏆
- 2022 Paragliding World Champion Discusses How He Did It!
- Sailed new Soling1m for first time today.
Sailed well. No way to know how it performs until some races are under its belt, but it looked and felt solid and clean. Despite significant chop and 20 knots of breeze, the boat was almost completely dry after 30 minutes of sailing and lots of bow dives. Considering the size of the jib sheet passthru, the amount of water in the boat was miraculously tiny! Thanks to Doug at 3DRC Boats (https://3drcboats.com). - Volunteer Single Handedly Moves US From Embarrassingly Behind in OGN (Flarm Ground Stations) to “At least on the Map” by Single-handedly Building and supporting over 100 fully configured OGN base stations #Wow #HugeThanks 🙏
And huge thanks to those in the SSA who promoted, supported approved funding to reimburse expenses, totally over 40k, to enable all of this! https://groups.google.com/g/rec.aviation.soaring/c/hhLgba2qNbM - The Greatest F1 “News” Channel in the Whole Damn Universe and Throughout ALL OF SPACE-TIME (That’s 13 Billion Years and Counting)! #Legend
- Flying the new Hph Twin Shark 🦈 2-Place, 20 Meter Competition Sailplane (It’s Outstanding!)
Easy to rig, outstanding flying characteristics, fast, AWESOME! 5 stars! - 2024 US Soaring Competition Pilot Ranking List Released
https://soaringweb.org/PRL/prl.2024.html - This is quite interesting…and sad.
Seems to me that there may be tomfoolery on all sides here. Political circus tricks, in any sport, destroys the natural enjoyment of the sport. Rules must be simple, enforceable, and not purely decided at the whim of biased viewpoints. Rules must be evenly applied to all competitors. Despite the inner circles best efforts, many quietly see bias in rules, and poor treatment of some, and simply walk away to do something else. That has been happening far too much in soaring. Many claim it’s been getting rapidly worse over the past 20 years. I can speak for the last … [Read more…] - Vaughn’s First Day of Pre-School
- 2023 E-Scow Nationals. 126 Competitors. Women, Juniors, Youth, Families. Any Questions? #Winning
Literally all other sailboat racing classes in the United States, and most of the world, are a literal JOKE in comparison to the E Scow class. 126 boats. Numbers like this year after year after year. The class is well rounded and tremendously healthy with tons of youth, juniors, women and families. No other class comes even remotely close. Period. End of discussion. Results -> https://www.yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=15593 Photo below 👇 of starting line day 1 (yesterday). 1 mile long starting line. Yes, ONE MILE LONG. - European Slot Car Championship ARE YOU FING KIDDING ME
THIS IS UNREAL! - Thank You For Your Outstanding SSA Contest Reporting Lt. Cmdr. Richard Owen.
Rich Owen (Orlando, FL, ex Navy and Delta Pilot) deserves some serious thanks from the contest pilots and soaring competition fans of the USA/SSA for his steadfast commitment (and writing talent) in writing outstanding contest reports for the SSA contests he attends (many or most) including the seniors championships, which he also essentially runs. Rich puts an enormous amount of effort into writing the daily contest reports for all contest he attends (as well as some others I believe). Thank you sir! Your efforts and time commitments during these already time consuming contests are tremendously appreciated. - Fatal Sailplane Crash in NE Colorado USA Near Wellington just S of Wyoming.
Pilots identity still unknown as of this publishing. My friend deepest sympathy to his/her family, friends, and colleagues. It always hurts when a fellow sailplane pilot is injured in this sport we all love and cherish. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/glider-pilot-killed-near-colorado-wyoming-state-line/ar-AA1g8ag4 - Ferrari Movie 🍿 Trailer, This One Looks Amazing!!!
- My WeGlide Page here…
https://www.weglide.org/user/5329 - Greatest F1 Reporting on the Planet “Summer Break!”
- We did it! US 18m Class National Champion 2023 Uvalde, and a “3-Peat” Completing 3 National Championships in a Row!
https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/usa-18-meter-nationals-and-uvalde-glide-uvalde-garner-field-2023/results/18-meter/task-11-on-2023-08-25/total The final day was just short of a 400km racing task. As they say in auto racing it’s often hard to take your foot off the gas and not push 100%, and it throws off your rhythm. This was probably a little true. I took a little extra height in most climbs, especially my final glide climb, which I went to +1500 ft., and this cost me slightly in speed today as we all know it does. But in my defense I was trying to protect against weak spots ahead of which there were several today costing a few … [Read more…] - Adorable 🥰 Photos of Vaughn in Uvalde, TX at the 2023 USA 🇺🇸 18m Nationals
Melissa I. took these incredible photos during the sunrise (pre hot) water filling & gridding session. The Rick I. let Vaughn drive his truck down to the grid! .… . - 2023 USA 🇺🇸 18 Meter Nationals Results after Task 6
https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/usa-18-meter-nationals-and-uvalde-glide-uvalde-garner-field-2023/results/18-meter/task-6-on-2023-08-21/total https://members.ssa.org/ContestResults.asp?contestId=2548&ContestDetailId=30585&ContestName=2023+18%2DMeter+Nationals&ContestDate=8/21/2023&ResultsUpdate=True - 2023 18 Meter Nationals Contest Day 4
- 2023 USA 🇺🇸 18m Nationals Uvalde Results thru Day 3
Rest day today. Results below (screenshot). Unofficial but VASTLY SUPERIOR SoaringSpot.com link here (SSA stubbornly refuses to use it): https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/usa-18-meter-nationals-and-uvalde-glide-uvalde-garner-field-2023/ UNUSABLE to public SSA link here (facepalm 🤦♂️): https://members.ssa.org/ContestResults.asp?contestId=2548&ContestDetailId=30437&ContestName=2023+18%2DMeter+Nationals&ContestDate=8/18/2023&ResultsUpdate=True - 2023 US 18m Nationals Results thru Day 2
The SSA website locks the result info (highly disappointing for those of us who want to share our sport openly) so you likely cannot see the links without paying an $80 membership fee, and they don’t use International Standard Contest Scoring Site, SoaringSpot.com, a scoring site which is well known, public, open, and highly professional…but here is the SSA results link even though you likely can’t open the link 🧐: https://www.ssa.org/racing-results/ - Photos from the 2023 US 18m Nationals in Uvalde, Texas 🇺🇸
Having a great time… Doing well, staying conservative… - Hilarious F1 News Channel Must Watch
- Driving thru Texas today, on Route Uvalde, TX, 109 degrees!
Meanwhile, on the dash… It was hot 🥵 today! 109!!! Made it to Austin, TX! - 2023 Canadian Nationals Day 4 (Task 3) Recap
Did a video recap today, watch below. Scores under that… Full results and data on soaringspot.com @ Canadian Nationals Day 3 Results Overall Results Pic of XG on leg one… More - V morning school time
- Canadian Nationals Race Day 3 Morning
Looks like a convergence day in a narrow corridor (photo 1) to the west of rockton (Sosa). Narrows more later in the day. See photo 2 at 430pm. As always it will be tricky and tough Canadian competitors who know this flying area like the back of their hand… - Canadian Nationals Day 2 (Task 3) in the books
Congrats to Sergei and Jerzy and all. Difficult day. More reporting added here soon on the task itself. Photos just below are approaching the top of first turn area with scattered heavy showers to navigate around…dicey! SEEYOU DATA – https://seeyou.cloud/flight/public/6iBA3secPdDgevpGEMDMfk# OVERALL SCORES – https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/canadian-nationals-2023-rockton-2023/results/18-meter/task-3-on-2023-08-01/total DAY 2 SCORES – https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/canadian-nationals-2023-rockton-2023/results/18-meter/task-3-on-2023-08-01/daily
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