The international ship modeling competition “Navigation-2026” (C, NS, NSS, ECO Classes) finished on 21st June 2026 in Minsk, Belarus. In total, 20 teams from 6 countries (Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Lithuania and Germany) took part in the event where 118 competitors presented 213 models in various sports disciplines. Belarus won in the team competition while the Russian team came second, with just a small gap...
Static classes such as C-2 Class (with 20 models from seniors and 8 from juniors), С-6A/B (30 models from seniors and 17 from juniors) and С-7A (15 models from senior competitors) were the most popular among the participants. It is worth noting the steadily growing sports interest for С6-C and C7-C Classes (dioramas and series of plastic and paper models) – each year modelers come up with new competitive models in these classes.
As for navigation scale classes, here the most popular were F2-A (with 19 models from seniors) and F4-B/C (11 models from seniors). The NSS-A Class (radio-controlled models of sailing boats) were even more active than last year (9 models from seniors and 5 from juniors) as well as ECOexpert speed boats equipped with electric engines (9 models from senior modelers and 7 from junior ones).
Still, the most actively presented class this year was F4-A, which gathered an astounding number of models – 52(!) in total. The sports struggle was indeed tough in this class with almost equally strong competitors. After the 3 attempts, 5 modelers gained the same top number of points (300). The winner and prize-winners in this class had to be defined via 3 extra re-runs. Finally, Maksim Boda (Belarus) came first, Mikhail Moskalev (Russia) – second and Alexander Maltsev (Russia) took the third place.
You can find the results for other “Navigation-2026” participants in the competition protocol.
https://shipmodelsport.org/eng/index.php/128-navigation-2026-competition-results?layout=default&print=1&tmpl=component#sigFreeId17e4133a49