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Event Report, Solo, Steve's BlogSolo Heaven
Once again its not surprising that the Solo class is going from strength to strength. The Solo committee continue to put on regattas that sailors want to sail in with venues and times that any...
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Event Report, Rooster, Steve's BlogThe Sweetest Part of the Curve
When you have raced singlehanded boats at almost all levels, Open Meetings, Nationals, Europeans, World Championships and Pre Olympics – there is not many parts of your game that you can improve on. One’s ability...
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Event Report, Rooster, Steve's Blog, Team RoosterJaw Dropping Show – RYA Dinghy Show 2015.
For those of you who have never visited the RYA’s Dinghy Show, can I please tell a quick story to show you just how amazing the show really is. This year the 4000 class fleet...
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Event Report, Rooster, Steve's Blog, Team RoosterA Laser Sailors Dream
A Laser sailor’s dream. A warm windy week shared with a world record 500 fellow Laser sailors from 37 countries to duke it out wherever you are in the field. The feeling of meeting up...
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Event Report, Hints and Tips, Steve's BlogBoat Park Repairs to my Old Shed – and it’s still fast – or lucky?
Its Hyères – the Masters World Championships with 499 entries racing. First attempted start and my deck kit starts to lift off. My toe strap starts to pull out. Ah – no problems, I’ll tie...
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Event Report, Rooster, Rooster 4000, Steve's BlogItalian 4000 Championships – a warm up for the Europeans
They say that the wind comes in like clockwork, and for the Garda virgins amongst us, it seamed incredible that we were going to start on time. There was no wind to speak of whilst...
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Event Report, Laser, Steve's Blog5 Timezones and one Cool Handicap System in One Week
When business took me to North America last week, there was an ideal time to showcase the Rooster Product range at the North American Masters Championships. Despite being in a strange country, once I had...
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Event Report, Steve's Blog, Tool Box5 swims in two days and two very different boats
I imagined that I would borrow an RS300 from a friend, fettle the foils, check the parts over to avoid failure and enter the RS300 Nationals for a couple of fun days racing, on a...
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Event Report, Hints and Tips, Steve's Blog, Video CritiqueRace 4 Snowflake 2013
As we prepared for race 4, the current was just still running upwind in the channel and starting to turn at the edges. We opted for a safe starboard end start. We had a transit...
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Event Report, Steve's BlogLaser® Masters Europeans – Roses 2012
Having just completed the Laser® Masters Europeans in Roses I have a few moments to contemplate what a fantastic venue we were at. Roses is just north east of Barcelona and is surrounded by mountains...
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