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Event Report, Hints and Tips, Team RacingTeam Racing 101: Part 2, By George Yeoman
First beat The first thing to do once you are going to work up the first beat is assess who your pair is, this is usually the person who is your starting rival, but if...
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Hints and Tips, Optimist, Team RoosterHow 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!...
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Hints and Tips, New Products, Steve's BlogDyneema® Shock Cord – worth the money
Having used normal Shock Cord and now the Dyneema® Shock Cord, I can vouch for the Dyneema® Shock Cord every time. The slack in the system is much easier to take up as the Dyneema®...
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Hints and Tips, Steve's BlogTaperLite – Rooster’s answer to your spinnaker or gennaker sheet requirements
A video to show you how to create a simple centre take off with Rooster’s TaperLite. Rooster’s answer to your spinnaker or gennaker sheet requirements.
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Event Report, Hints and Tips, Team RacingTeam Racing 101: Part 1 – By George Yeoman, 2017 Wilson Trophy Champion
The Wilson Trophy is the pinnacle of the UK team racing scene. It is the one event that people want to win, maybe even more so than the Nationals, which has led the “British Open...
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Hints and Tips, Sailing Solutions by Rooster, TopperTopper Daggerboard Update – how to fill in the notches
Due to the change in the manufacturers build specification, you can now fill in the notches on your daggerboard, improving the flow of water across your foil. Here Dave Cockerill demonstrates how to do this...
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Hints and Tips, RS 200, Team Rooster, Tuning GuideHow to set up a new RS200….plus a few tweaks
Winter is the time for fixing and upgrading your boat. It’s not always the most fun thing to do but definitely worth it when the season comes. We have recently been sorting our new RS200...
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Hints and Tips, Optimist, Team RoosterRecovering from a bad start in a massive fleet – by Helena Wolff
Photo credit: www.tomasmoyaphoto.es Helena Wolff finished 22nd overall and 2nd girl out of 255 entrants at the 2016 Optimist World Championship in Villamoura, Portugal. As a new member of Team Rooster we asked her advice...
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Hints and Tips, Team Rooster, TopperTopper Bimbles: Locking Retractable Painter
Any top racer will tell you that just one boat length could make as many as 5 places difference in a race. 1 point let alone 5 could make the difference between winning and losing, whether that...
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Hints and Tips, Steve's Blog, Tuning GuideTop Reads 2016 #1stplace – My Laser Mast Rake.
So Lasers are one design? Well almost. There are build tolerances that make small differences to your speed from mast rake, spar stiffness and weight. Also having sailed a Europe dinghy very seriously, I also...
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