Team Zoomy, Author at Rooster blog

Hints and Tips, Optimist, Team Rooster
How to survive the major leap into Optimist racing, by the Sargent family.

The Optimist class is celebrating it’s 70th Birthday this year and continues to go from strength to strength. Sailors enter the class National Championship in their 100’s, with a peak of 490 entries in 2010!...
By Team Zoomy

6th June 2017
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2000, Optimist, Team Rooster
I am a lot braver now – by Gwen Sargent

I have been racing in boats since before I can remember. I won my first open meeting before I was born, helping Mummy crew when she was four months pregnant. But the first time I...
By Team Zoomy

27th February 2017
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2000, Hints and Tips, RS 300
The World’s Worst Sailing Selfie (and how to improvise a hiking bench)

Well I’ll let you be the judge of that! But desperate times drive desperate measures. In this case the desperate measures were a trip to the Middle East between February and August which drove a...
By Team Zoomy

10th November 2016
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My First Day Working on a Yacht – by Johnny aged 8

Yesterday was my first working day aboard a yacht. Our friends, Malcolm and Rosemarie, needed my help to deliver their yacht, “Curlew”, from Emsworth Marina to Thorney Island in Chichester Harbour. I was ready. We...
By Team Zoomy

11th April 2016
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2000, Hints and Tips, Optimist
Shoreside support tips from Doris the Sea Goddess

I have morphed from being a Nereide Dinghy Racing Goddess myself to my new role as the mother of Dinghy Racing Gods. Hence my new name is Doris (wife of the sea god Nereus and...
By Team Zoomy

5th January 2016
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2000, Optimist
What a difference a year makes (when you’re 8 or 10)!

Wow! I was about to put fingers to keyboard about the kids’ fantastic training and racing this autumn, but I thought I’d dip in and have a look at what we were saying this time...
By Team Zoomy

25th November 2015
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2000, Team Rooster
Zooming in a Zoomy 2000

It’s been an amazing season for the Sargent family: Gwen and Johnny’s training and racing in Opis and Teras; the fun at Thorney Island and Emsworth Sailing Clubs and our amazing season in the 2000 as a family. And with Autumn training and some ocean sailing and racing to come for Matt, there will no … Read More
By Team Zoomy

22nd October 2015
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Rooster
New and Old!

I love this photo! I am wearing the first bit of kit I ever bought from Steve, and my latest bit of Rooster Gear, a Neoprene Beanie. In Jan 2001 Clare (then new girlfriend, now...
By Team Zoomy

23rd March 2015
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RS 300, RS Tera
Joy Rides for all – a great afternoon on the water!

Last night it was off to Emsworth Sailing Club for the Junior Sailing opening brief. Gwen and Johnny really enjoyed catching up with some friends they hadn’t seen for a few months and were quite pleased that they’d done a lot more sailing than most. It left them feeling really confident for our planned family … Read More
By Team Zoomy

12th March 2015
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2000, Rooster, Team Rooster
Half Terms are for Sailing – Was that the best ever?

I was lucky enough to have Monday off, so there was an opportunity to get on the water together as a family, in our 2000, Zoomy. I love the fact that as well as now being firmly established as the Sargent Family’s double (and sometimes triple) handed race boat, the 2000 is also a boat … Read More
By Team Zoomy

24th February 2015
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How to survive the major leap into Optimist racing, by the Sargent family.

The Optimist class is celebrating it’s 70th Birthday this year and continues to go from strength to strength. Sailors enter the class National Championship in their 100’s, with a peak of 490 entries in 2010!...

I am a lot braver now – by Gwen Sargent

I have been racing in boats since before I can remember. I won my first open meeting before I was born, helping Mummy crew when she was four months pregnant. But the first time I...

The World’s Worst Sailing Selfie (and how to improvise a hiking bench)

Well I’ll let you be the judge of that! But desperate times drive desperate measures. In this case the desperate measures were a trip to the Middle East between February and August which drove a...

My First Day Working on a Yacht – by Johnny aged 8

Yesterday was my first working day aboard a yacht. Our friends, Malcolm and Rosemarie, needed my help to deliver their yacht, “Curlew”, from Emsworth Marina to Thorney Island in Chichester Harbour. I was ready. We...

Shoreside support tips from Doris the Sea Goddess

I have morphed from being a Nereide Dinghy Racing Goddess myself to my new role as the mother of Dinghy Racing Gods. Hence my new name is Doris (wife of the sea god Nereus and...

What a difference a year makes (when you’re 8 or 10)!

Wow! I was about to put fingers to keyboard about the kids’ fantastic training and racing this autumn, but I thought I’d dip in and have a look at what we were saying this time...

Zooming in a Zoomy 2000

New and Old!

I love this photo! I am wearing the first bit of kit I ever bought from Steve, and my latest bit of Rooster Gear, a Neoprene Beanie. In Jan 2001 Clare (then new girlfriend, now...

Joy Rides for all – a great afternoon on the water!

Half Terms are for Sailing – Was that the best ever?

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