• Team Rooster

    The Key to success…

    No, unfortunately I haven’t found a magical formula that will make you succeed at anything you want. I did however have a disappointing result two weekends ago, at the first autumn laser qualifier in Sunderland, and that’s pretty much the same thing. Ill try to explain… A quick summary of the weekend: Saturday started with no …   Read More

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  • Laser

    Laser opens

    It’s been far too long since my last post! A lot has been happening and I have had very little time to stop and take it all in. The last 5 weeks I have been traveling to the south coast open events, the first of which was at Bosham. As my first open event I wasn’t really …   Read More

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  • Laser,  Rooster

    A new experience

    It’s taken me far too long to get around to writing this blog, I have now finished my AS Exams though so I thought I would finally get on with it. The monohull/catamaran debate often seems to split the sailing world, and I have always sailed monohull boats but few weekends ago, I sailed a catamaran …   Read More

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  • Laser,  Rooster

    First laser events

    The last two weekends I have been taking part in the second two Laser radial qualifier weekends, my first two events competing against other Radials not from one of my home clubs. Two weekends ago was my first event. Being at Stokes Bay, my home club, I was hoping I would have a bit of …   Read More

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  • Laser

    Half term training

    It’s taken me a little while to get around to writing this but a few weeks ago was half term; for students like myself half term is the perfect opportunity for some concentrated training and the chance to make some big improvements. In the second half of the week I took part in my first …   Read More

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  • Laser

    The end of 2014 and the start of winter training

    It’s been a long time since my last post, I’ve been very busy starting training in my Laser as well as starting my A-levels, and balancing both. Fortunately both are going well. At the end of the summer, having had a disappointing finish to my Topper sailing, I was somewhat unsure as to where I …   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    2014 Topper Nationals at Pwllheli

    This Year was my last year sailing a topper, therefore the topper nationals was an important event for me, and Pwllheli is a venue I love, so I was looking forward to it. My aim was to get into gold fleet. There was some extreme weather for the first day of racing, however the wind …   Read More

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  • Rooster

    Looking to the future

    A lot’s happened since my last blog, I’ve been to two Topper national events, one at Queen Mary, and one at Grafham, I’ve  started training for the Topper nationals in Pwllheli and I’ve started sailing a Laser and  a 29er.   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Topper Winter Regatta 2014

    Last weekend was the Topper Winter Regatta, the first chance I’ve had since joining the Topper UK Youth Squad to see how I have improved, and with the winter regatta now counting towards the overall Topper National Series results, the first chance for me to get some decent results to count. This Year the winter …   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    My Sailing Story…

    As a younger kid in school I never really enjoyed sports, I was always the last one to get picked for teams and while I wasn’t particularly bad at sports I just found any form of exercise a real bore. About a year and a half ago that all changed…   Read More

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