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    Cross Curricular Aquafleece

    Last weekend I went off to Benmore Outdoor Centre near Dunoon with a party of our senior pupils to do all sorts of outdoor things in the rain, because it usually rains in the west...

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    My very first time in an RS400

    The Scottish RS400 class held their end of season on-day regatta at Dalgety last Saturday and one of my club mates couldn’t make it and so he leant me his boat and crew, thanks Phil. I’m...

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    Special Saturday

    Every now and then we have a Special Saturday at Dalgety Bay Sailing Club. where we do some fun races. It’s not specifically aimed at kids but they tend to be the ones who come,...

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    Lasers at Stonehaven (my favourite place)

    I was up at Stonehaven at the weekend for the Laser Scottish Championships. There was no racing on Saturday as it was too windy and the waves were huge. I suppose a few of us...

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    Dalgety Bay Youth Week

    Each year our club runs a week for the youth sailors at our club. From age 8 to 16, there is a selection of courses from Stage 1 up to Start Racing with daysailing and...

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    Perspective

    Wednesday night’s racing was not a good one for me. I struggled to feel what the boat was doing and just couldn’t seem to get it right. But with the Open golf on, I was...

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    A sailing adventure

    One of the best things we can do is introduce non sailors to our sport, so last Friday I took a group of school children down to Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth for...

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    Regatta Fix

    I took my old Wednesday Night Club Race Laser over to the East Lothian regatta a couple of weekends ago. I need my regatta fix while we get ourselves used to the 500, so this...

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    RS500 and having fun

    So finally we get a brilliant day for trying out the RS500. After a couple of short sails in too much wind, remembering that my son has only tried a spinnaker in a Mirror and is fairly new to trapezing, we got a great day of about 10 knots to try everything out. It was …   Read More

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    Summer on it’s way?

    We had our first evening club race last Wednesday, which makes it seem that summer can’t be far away, even though you can still see snow on the hills. And when the tide goes out, there can be a noticeable drop in the water temperature as all that melt water makes it way downstream.   Read More

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