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Let the fun begin…..

Well the Sargent familyseason has now well and truly started, and it’s shaping to be an absolute cracker!  Not that I ever thought I’d write about a season starting, but between the weather this winter, which didn’t allow sailing when we were free, joining a new Club at the start of its membership year, and …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 10th May 2014

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If not duffers won’t drown…

The Sargent family posts in this blog tend to range fairly widely. This one will be no exception. There’s not been a lot of sailing activity for us, what with the normal winter range of illnesses for primary school children, and adults alike; those horrible things work and training for work; and then the weather. …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 21st March 2014

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Dinghy show and some swimming…

I’m in full agreement with Ian Baillie in his last blog piece that the dinghy show is a fabulous day out.  I hadn’t been for years and years.  This was our first time as a...

By Team Zoomy 13th March 2014

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Winter bites – but not at the Bloody Mary

It’s been a quiet winter on the water for the Sargent family. Seems like whenever there’s been a chance to get on the water it’s either been too windy, or one of us has been ill. I guess that’s the payback for an autumn in which the kids were able to sail their Teras right …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 12th January 2014

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Yes, we have a helm!

One of the great things about having kids are those moments when they achieve something new. 2 separate sets of parent friends had walkers over the weekend. It was a very special moment for Clare and I when Gwen had her first proper solo sail yesterday at one of the Thorney Island Sailing Club On …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 20th October 2013

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” Matt Sargent owned an ancient pair of sailing gloves which used to belong to old-time sailing star, Steve ‘Rooster’ Cockerill. In some strange way, the gloves enabled Matt to sail in Rooster’s style”.

OK, I reckon that this post’s title will separate into (mainly) men of a certain age who remember Eagle comic, and its ilk, and the rest who haven’t a clue what I’m on about!  But either for the first group’s nostalgia, or the second group for educational reasons, here’s the wiki-link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy’s_Boots.  Day two at the 300 …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 29th September 2013

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Dagger Grip – where it’s at!

Well in our last post ‘Busy Sailing’ (http://www.roostersailing.com/blog/?p=4460) I trailed the kids first solo session in the Teras. Clare and I got in our RaceSkin/ shorties and the kids were wet suited up nicely, (bit too warm for Polypro as a base layer which makes a pleasant change!) We rigged a Tera, sail rolled to …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 29th July 2013

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Busy sailing…..

Well that’s the trouble with this time of year: having too much fun on the water to write about it! Since we last blogged here Clare has had a short notice place on a Dinghy Instructor’s Course, and had a fabulous, if hard working week. I’ve been out with a bunch of near or actual …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 18th July 2013

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Sometimes its just about the joy of it….

Wow. Last night was one of those times, when the results don’t really matter either. After weeks in which the breeze has died, and the tide has been ebbing as we fought our way home to finish in the near dark, finally we had a north-easterly that kept on giving and a flood to help …   Read More

By Team Zoomy 7th June 2013