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New Products, Steve's BlogHow to smile when the conditions aren’t too good.
How to make standing on the touch line a pleasure this winter. The sun is always shining when you are wearing a Pro Aquafleece® Rigging Coat. Our Pro Aquafleece® Rigging Coat is super light, warm...
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Hints and Tips, Rooster 4000, Steve's BlogSafety ‘blow through’ Gybe in a Rooster 4000.
Racing at Stokes Bay in what might be called fresh to frightening conditions – onshore with winds 25 + knots. The key features of the safety or blow through gybe are: Helm – concentrating on...
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Hints and Tips, Steve's BlogChinese Rope Trick and 12 Braid Spicing
Products used in this video: Rooster Micro Serrated Scissors – even better than the original. 🙂 2/3mm Pull Fid 2mm 12 Braided Dynema (or Spectra)
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Rooster 4000, Steve's Blog4000 Euro’s in Garda.
Garda is for many sailors, a dream location for a regatta. Add 5 nations, 30 boats and the best club on the Lake at Riva, the ingredients certainly looked exciting for the 1016 Euro Cup....
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Hints and Tips, Steve's BlogWorth a look if your spinnaker halyard has ever jammed.
How to choose the right rope for the right job. It’s not always the case that the most expensive rope is the best one for the job, specially when it comes to your spinnaker halyard. ...
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Hints and Tips, Steve's BlogHalitail™ – the ideal way to put a tail on your wire halyard
If you have ever found a 3 plait rope hard to splice onto a wire halyard – then this video is for you. Sold per meter – Shop Halitail™
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Hints and Tips, New Products, Steve's BlogSpinfast – the ultimate dinghy spinnaker halyard
Steve Cockerill explains the thinking behind Rooster’s new Spinfast dinghy spinnaker halyard. If you want to see your class halyard length listed, why not let us know the dimensions.
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2000, Steve's BlogNew 2000 Shake Down and Sort
After picking up a new 2000 from RS sailing, I spent a day preparing the boat for the first event at Weir Wood. I changed the toe straps for Rooster 2000 Helm and Rooster 2000...
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Event Report, Rooster 4000AGISEN 4000 Match Racing
In late February the first full trial of the AGISEN Match Race 4000 event proved to be a great success despite strong breezes with bitterly cold bite. Based on an initiative by Tim Litt,...
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Kit Bag, New ProductsWhat is a Rigging Coat?
About 3 years ago I thought we should try and produce our take on a neoprene rigging coat but use Aquafleece® with taped seams instead. Our first iteration was great to wear and created lots...
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