DF65 Association.

January 1st 2018

On the 1st January 2018 the Australian DF65 Radio Sailing Association was launched. The class has been sanctioned/recognised in a number of the States and is well on its way in gaining National Recognition.

The plan is to hold the first AGM of the Association in conjunction with the first Australian National DF65 Championships in May 2019. Not that far away.  Since its launch,  over two hundred DF65 Owners have joined the Association. A number of new clubs/fleets have been formed, with interest growing daily. For information on the Association and on how to join and receive your Hull Serial Number head to

https://sites.google.com/site/adf65rsa

DF65 State Championships will be held in three states soon so keep an eye on the page for updates.

South Africa Build a Fleet of DF95’s

 

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Dragon Flite 95 South Africa Coloured Decals
The DF95 with the new Printed and cut vinyl Decals fitted. The top of the sails are colored with Permanent Magic Marker Ink on both sides of the sail.

There are 16 DF95’s in South Africa with the first order arriving Mid May, with the fleet set to build over the coming months.

Des Fairbank is the Importer and he is also the Commodore of the Maritzburg Radio Yacht Club . He can be contacted on the following E-mail: desf@telkomsa.net

DF 95 Hull Number Decal - South Africa
All our boats have a hull number in sequential order and that is also your sail number. Here we have added a durable adhesive sticker onto the smooth plastic of the radio tray – hopefully if the boat evr changes hands there is a phone number where someone perhaps will phone us to let us know what has happened. If a Hull is replaced due to damage the hull number remains but with the suffix A, B, etc indicating a hull change and that is duly noted on the master register.

Now Listen Up!

So the new DF65 V6 was launched out in Germany at the Nuremberg toy fair back in early February and I’m sure many of you will have seen the excellent live video that Chuck put up which involved John Tushingham explaining the detail on the V6.

Since then the V6 has been made available worldwide, with all major distributors getting their stock and customers all over the world getting boxes in the mail.

To back up this new V6 version of the successful DF65 RC Yacht it was decided to give the rules a quick once over to cement the V6 properly into the class and also allow previous versions of the yacht to be modified with the new V6 radio tray. It was also decided that we should give the DF class a new rig to play with, the A+. There has been a lot of discussion about the new rig and not everyone is a fan but the reasoning behind it is sound and will allow better competition at all levels of racing.

A+ rig

So we have added the detail to the relevant pages which are, new V1.6 class rules, A+ rig template, new DF65 class logo and the new DF65 V6 rigging instructions. To find them please just hover over the DF65 heading on the menu and a drop down menu will appear.