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After the success of the original Cheinz design in 2011, Mirage Radio Yachts has recently released the new Cheinz 2.

Mirage Radio Yachts, the IOM ‘Cheinz 2’ is a modification of the original Cheinz that was launched for the IOM Worlds in West Kirby in 2011, a design that performed incredibly well at the championship having been sailed only twice before the event, and never with the small rigs.

Differences between the two designs is that he has reduced the sheerline to take away the bulk of the original and reduce windage. The Cheinz 2 has a new fin and rudder with reduced drag. The winch is now under the deck in a new 3D produced mount under a new deck hatch, this has resulted in a centralizing of the weight at the pitching moment. A beneficial result. This has led to there being no need for a deck opening on the foredeck.

The original Cheinz was one of the most popular designs in Australia in the years after its launch and demand for the new Cheinz 2 is strong with five boats already built with the first headed to a new owner in Perth while others will head overseas to the USA, New Zealand & China.

Mirage now offers a number of IOM designs alongside the Cheinz 2 which include the popular Panda (pictured below) which made its debut in China last year and the Nitro design which was recently first & second at the 2019 Nordic Championships sailed by Soren Andresen & Torvald Klem.

Decided to design a new boat based on ideas I had that incorporated in some of the past designs but also took a slightly different tack.

What has evolved is a design that I think will be something that will suit all conditions but also at its peak in A rig, which in most areas is the rig used most of the time.

Slightly fuller in the bow with rounded sections and the stern is also a bit wider.

It's initiation was in the CCOR regatta in China last month. Soeren Andresen (Den), and myself attended along with Zyvonko Jelicich , Graham Bantock and skippers from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as the local contingent. Unfortunately the Japanese skippers plans got skuppered by a typhoon, so they could not attend.

With our two boat in parts when I arrived, and working into the night we got Soeren's A and B rig finished and my A rig.

Both boats launched for the first race and they performed well and showed promise. This was later displayed when on the last day Soeren was the leading points scorer. He showed improvement each day. Final result was Soeren in 3rd place and myself in 7th.

The two boats were sold to local skippers after the event and should be the forerunners of a fleet of Panda's in China.

Orders are now being taken for the Panda.

Key Features

• New fin and rudder
• Lower freeboard to allow the rig to be placed lower in the boat which aids stability
• Screw lid pot to contain the receiver and battery. Because of this inclusion the winch is now in front of the mast.
• Detail improvements include adjustable rudder pushrod
• Available in a range of 8 colours, 7 being RAL colours and the other is the Team Mirage green as shown on the Nitro in the photos.

Recent Results

• 2019 CCOR Cup in China. 28th April to 1st May: 1st place to Mirage Radio Yachts IOM Panda sailed by Mr Yang. 2019 Swedish IOM Championships:  1st place to Mirage Radio Yachts IOM Nitro sailed by Soren Andresen.  4th place to Odd Stray sailing a Panda.   5th place to Torvald Klem sailing a Nitro..  Confirming Mirage Radio Yachts IOM performance credentials.
• 2018 Norwegian IOM Championships;  Nitro's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd!.   Winner was Soeren Andresen (Den), followed by Torvald Klem and Odd  Ornulf Stray from Norway. Great result for The Mirage Radio Yachts Nitro design.
• Tasmanian State Event;  Mirage Radio Yachts woodie designs 1st and 3rd.  1st Jeff Byerley, Idiom  3rd Chris Woods, Corbie 5
• Great result against good production glass boats.
• Nitro IOM design finish 1st,2nd, and 6th in the just completed Swedish IOM Championships. Well done to Soren Andresen,Odd Ornulf Stray, and Torvald Klem. .

Recent News

• Plans are now available for the Corbie 5 . A "woodie" IOM for those who like to do their own thing. A set of full size stations printed on two sheets of A4 paper are included in the kit along with a very extensive manual which includes building instructions and tips, a tuning section, and maintenance hints. Also includes a list of suppliers. This manual was as a result of the work of Ian Dundas in the UK who has been a great help in this project. The cost of the kit is $115.00AUD. Laser cut stations can be purchased from a company called SLEC in the UKat an additional cost. This does save a lot of work and is more precise when setting up the building platform. Please contact Mirage Radio Yachts at [email protected] or ph  61362655432 or 61401026216

Useful Links

• Australian Radio Yachting Association
• IRSA World Radio Sailing

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Disclaimer: Prices, shown on this website are subject to change without notice. While every effort is made to keep prices accurate and up-to-date, this cannot be guaranteed . All prices are subject to change at any time without notice at the discretion of MIRAGE RADIO YACHTS.

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Milling mdf, more plug milling.

The model yacht plug we're making is milled in three stages. First a rough-cut, then a finish-cut which cuts the plug 1 mm undersize. Then it's coated with a thick layer of tooling gelcoat. What you see above is the final milling pass where the gelcoat is cut down to the final shape. This way we're hoping the final plug will require a minimum of painting/sanding before use.

Jari is making plugs for our latest IOM-project, and he posted two new videos:

Wave goodbye, wish me well

FIN-43, my current Noux-design IOM, is packed and ready for shipping to its new owner next week. I made a holder for the bulb from tube-clamps, and disassmbled the rigs today. Everything fits nicely into my 110x30x26 cm boat box.

IOM Sail Camera

Jari got a Hero camera which takes still pictures and video and stores them on a memory card. It weighs about 120g and it's watertight, so it's possible to put it on-board and take some pictures while sailing. Seems to work quite well. This could be used later for looking at how the mast bends in different winds and with different shroud and/or spreader positions. ( See here for some statistics from the ongoing IOM Euros).

IOM fin and rudder moulds

With the servo-upgrade of the cnc-mill complete we are now beginning to run the kind of jobs that weren't previously possible. Stepper motors simply don't give the kind of 3D contouring capability and reliability for running 3-4 hour finish jobs like these. The finmould is finished with a 6 mm ball-nose cutter.

Jari made these moulds in steel, but it's possible to cut them in aluminium too. The fin mould here has a NACA 0010 section and the rudder has a thicker NACA 0015 section. With the precision that cnc-cutting provides we hope that the fin can come out of the mould quite complete and fit a cnc-cut finbox/bulb without much manual fitting.

We can produce fin, rudder, and bulb moulds in steel or aluminium on a small scale. Get in touch by email or by commenting below if you are an interested IOM-builder.

Steel Bulb nr2

After the test run on Saturday Jari made a complete bulb in steel on Sunday. The first half can be milled with the stock clamped to the vises, but for the second half we need this jig. It's in aluminium and was fairly simple to make - which also means making a bulb mould in aluminium should be easy. If someone is interested in a bulb mould, do drop me an email.

Milling the second half proceeds exactly like the first half. Here the rough-program is run leaving about 1 mm minimum of material for the finish pass. We now adjusted the program for a bit faster feedrate and much faster plunge-rates as it is clear the program is error free and all plunges are outside the stock.

Surface finish is slightly better than on the trial bulb. The design weight was 2410 g and this one came out at 2416 g - pretty good. With a 100-150 g fin trimming the total weight close to 2500 g shouldn't be a problem.

Widgets for Sail

Graham Elliot from the UK doesn't have a website of his own (yet?) , but wanted to let everyone know that he is now building and selling the Widget IOM . Designed by Chris Dicks in 1995 the boat has gone through quite a few changes to everything except the hull shape. The Widget has won the 1996 European Championship, the British National championships in 1997 and 2007, and the 2007 World Championship, not bad for a boat that was designed 13 years ago. The mouldings of the boat are manufactured by Dave Creed.

Graham's options and prices are:

• Boat complete to deck level, including cf fin and rudder, all attachment points, pulleys, adjustable main post, keel, all finished = 840 euro.
• RMG 280D, 42mm drum, thumbscrew, fitted in boat=215 euro.
• Rudder Servo, hitec 645 ultra torque, fitted in boat=75 euro.
• Rigs: prices vary depending on which fittings (sails etc or housemartin) and also which sails are preferred (housemartin , Brad Gibson , Stealth , sails etc)
• Wooden rig box= 80 euro
• 4 colours: red, orange, blue, grey. They are all sprayed using Epifanes 2 pot polyurethane paint.

Currently (Feb 2008) there is a waiting list of approximately 16-18 weeks.

Please contact Graham Elliot on elliottyachts "at" hotmail.co.uk if you are interested!

Wireless Mast Camera

Jari got a small wireless camera operating on 2.4 GHz and mounted it at the top of the mast on his no2 rig. With the bulky power connector removed and a longer wire for the 9V battery which is under the deck the camera weighs about 20g. Now we used a preliminary aluminium angle to hold the camera, but a better carbon arm should be made for next summer.

This camera is the variant where you can plug the receiver straight into a laptop via the USB port. The receiver even gets its power via USB, so no extra power supplies needed in the field. Range seemed good, and image quality was OK - probably now limited more by the compression used in the PC than by the camera.

Another Norwegian Noux

Here's a picture of Per Robert Jentsch's home-built Noux.