• Solo,  Team Rooster

    Variety is the spice of life

    Over the last year I’ve done a lot of sailing, gearing up for both the Scorpion Nationals and the Flying Fifteen Worlds has led to a lot of weekends away. Doing that amount of sailing...

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  • Flying Fifteen,  Rooster,  Scorpion,  Team Rooster

    Shaping up for Championship season

    A lot has happened since my last blog which included an event win at a breezy Staunton Harold event on the silver scorpion series. Dovestone – Flying Fifteen Next up was the Flying Fifteen open at my home club of Dovestone SC which turned out to be another windy event. It was the first of …   Read More

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  • Flying Fifteen,  Rooster,  Scorpion,  Team Rooster

    Breeze up… Lets go!!

    This weekend was the first Scorpion open of the circuit, and it was almost over before it started. Having checked the forecast all week, the predictions of 30-45mph wind were enough to put off the most hardy of Northerners. Especially as having recently bought my first house and also campaigning the Flying Fifteen for the …   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Eskimo!? Forget the fur, bring your supertherm

    The forecast hinted that it was going to be an interesting days sailing for the Eskimo Pursuit Race and Blackpool & Fleetood on 5th Jan, a fact that was confirmed when we turned up 2 hours before...

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  • Team Rooster

    Return to Narnia, where its always winter and never xmas

    After a long winter break with little sailing and the main focus on exams we were looking forward to getting back out there. The first day of the season this year was to be the our first time out in the newly acquired boat from P&B. I’d been sailing it with Oli Wells at some …   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Season is finally underway

    Well, it’s been a hectic start to the year which has unfortunately meant we haven’t been able to sail yet which has been frustrating especially seeing some of the fantastic results the Scorpion fleet have been achieving in the winter general handicap events and not being able to get involved.   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Handicap racing… good or bad

    First things first… introductions, my name is Andy McKee and I currently sail a Scorpion with my girlfriend Tarren Jones with a fair amount of success. Around 3 and a half years ago Tarren had never sailed before, we decided we wanted to do some sailing together and bought a scorpion, with a strong circuit …   Read More

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