• RS Feva,  Team Rooster

    Burnham Asymmetric Open

    Hello! Long time no blog! I haven’t had the time to put anything together, what with revision for ages stopping me from doing as many events as I would have liked. But, now that the...

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  • RS Feva,  Team Rooster

    Frostbite, Dinghy Show and training

    Over the Winter I have been sailing my Feva in the Alton Water Frostbite series. Due to Revision, Mock exams and various other things, my crew and I were not able to compete every weekend,...

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  • RS 200,  RS Feva,  RS Tera,  Team Rooster

    Recent Events, Team Racing and RS 200’s

    I’ve had a great season this year with my results and improvements, since my last blog about the RS Tera World Championship where I placed third I have had a few more successes. Summer Race...

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  • Event Report,  Rooster,  RS Tera

    RS Tera World Championships 2015

    I’ve just got back from the RS Tera Worlds Championships in Bruinisse, Holland.  It was the most exciting event I have ever done and I really really enjoyed it. I had been working really hard leading up to the Worlds on my fitness, boat handling and tactics – the work started long before the event …   Read More

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  • RS Feva,  RS Tera

    Round up of my past few events

    Hello there! Its been a while since my last blog post so I thought I would start with a little round up of the past few events. A while ago it was the RS Feva nationals, and after a tough few days of qualifying, with various disasters including shroud pins falling out, mainsheet blocks being …   Read More

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  • RS Tera,  Team Rooster

    Mixed Bunch at Northampton

    Last Weekend was the RS Tera Start of Seasons at Northampton Sailing Club. It was a really fun event with really close racing throughout the fleet. At 6:00 my “Alarm”(Dad) woke me up, he’d been out the night before with friends and presumed I hadn’t got any of my sailing kit ready so had allowed …   Read More

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  • RS Feva,  RS Tera,  Team Rooster

    Winter Training

    Hi guys, It’s been a while since my last post and  I’ve been busy training hard for the coming season in both the Tera and the Feva. In the Tera: I’ve been doing training most weekends down at Alton Water with the Eastern Tera squad. Eastern squad training is ideal for nailing the basics in boat …   Read More

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  • Rooster

    Winter Training begins

    Hey guys, Matt Smith here. Since my last blog post lots of exciting things have happened, firstly Barts Bash, a hugely exciting event and one of the most fun I have ever competed in. I competed at Alton Water and we had a really good turnout. I finished as 4th RS Tera Pro and 1527th …   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Round and Round in Essex

    Hi its Matt Smith. Wow, what a great week of sailing at both Brightlingsea Sailing Club and Dabchicks/West Mersea Yacht Club. Brightlingsea race week (Pyefleet Week)  started on the 10th of August. This year was the first time theres been an RS Tera fleet there so naturally I was very excited.   Read More

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  • Team Rooster

    Tera update

    Hi, it’s Matt Smith again. I’ve had an eventful past four weeks in my RS Tera. 4 weeks ago I had the Southern Area championships, these were at Hayling Island, a club I had never been to before and was very impressed with.  The race management was fantastic and Chichester Harbour was great to sail in. …   Read More

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