Hi, it is Sophie Taylor here and I sail a 420 with Rachel Mawer. The past few weeks we have been rather busy with boat prep in preparation for our first event at Pwllheli. Our...
Hi, it is Sophie here again and I sail with Rachel Mawer in the 420. We had another squad training at Cumbrae last weekend. It was rather windy on the Friday and after looking at the forecast we all decided to take only 2 out of the 3 boats on the water and share them …
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Last weekend, Sophie and I attended our 3rd squad camp together. The highlight, for me, was the upwind sailing on Saturday, when the wind was gusting over 30 knots! Unfortunately, some of the gusts were...
Hi all, This is Sophie here and I was sailing with Rachel in the 420 again last weekend on Cumbrae for the Scottish Squad. After Saturday I found out my drysiuit leaked and so I...
Rachel and I haven’t been able to do as much sailing in the past month as we had hoped. It had been too windy to sail the weekends before Christmas and one event was even...
Hi all, I’m Rachel and I sail a 420 with Sophie, and although we have only been together for a few months, we have already been selected for the Scottish 420 Squad, and are thankful...
Hi all, My name is Sophie Taylor and I sail a 420 with Rahcel Mawer. We are lucky enough to become new members of Team Rooster and would like to express our thanks for this opportunity....
The Feva worlds were based in Marina di Grosetto, Italy, with 178 boats and temperatures in the late 30’s the event saw five days of great racing with mixed conditions. After flying to Pisa and...
When the 2013 Worlds at Gravedona on Lake Como in Italy were announced it seemed to me like a must do event. 173 others had the same idea to make it the biggest ever Contender meeting. Added to that was the fantastic back drop of snowy mountains, ancient towns, villas, castles, free beer after racing, …
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Hi all I have just finished a great week of racing in Paignton, UK doing the UK Nationals. This was my first event of this tour. We had 6 days of racing and a great...