Many Congratulations go to our very own Guildford member and polymath of the radio sailing world, Roger Stollery on being awarded Both the Chris Dicks and Syan awards. Roger has recently resigned from heading up the MYA Tech team, which is a great loss for UK radio yachting, so these awards are well deserved and long overdue. We wish Roger well and hope he enjoys the extra me time! although we suspect he will soon fill the time with new projects.
The Syan Award This year Roger has made a major contribution to the administration of the MYA, by his work with the Tech Team, the Racing Regulations Team and Vane Regulations Team.
There are over a dozen documents on the MYA website, which Roger has either led or made a big contribution to, including the SSIs, National Championship Regulations, Ranking Regulations, Sail ID and the Free Sailing Yacht Racing Rules.
The MYA IOM Certification Control and checklists have been updated to relate to the latest IOMICA rule changes.
The Six Metre and 36″ class rules have been updated, revised and rewritten along with the Free Sailing Class Rule Supplement.
2017 marked 29 years service on the MYA Council with 14 years as publicity officer from 1967 and 15 years as Technical Officer.
The Chris Dicks Award Roger’s innovative designs have contributed to many features that members have on their current boats. He was the architect for the 1960s design revolution introducing bulb keels, light displacement, simple 2 part GRP moulded hull construction, wing masts, double luff sails, mylar sails, an ergonomic easily made vane gear, displacement penalty lightweight A class.
With radio he introduced una rigs, removable cassette radio gear, wire mast rings, the swing rig, kevlar hulls, carbon spars, hulls and fins, the BOTTLE boat, which was awarded a Millennium Products award by the Design Council.
Currently his designs still rate with the best and win Footy and Marblehead events.
He is experimenting with offset pivot swing rigs for smaller suits where the mast is mounted on a rotating bracket and not attached directly to the hull.
MYA National Awards
His designs feature simplicity in both concept and manufacture, whether it is a stainless steel wire bowsie or a Dyneema line mast ring. His boats are beautifully balanced, easy to sail and have given pleasure to a great many owners.
