• Laser

    Laser opens

    It’s been far too long since my last post! A lot has been happening and I have had very little time to stop and take it all in. The last 5 weeks I have been traveling to the south coast open events, the first of which was at Bosham. As my first open event I wasn’t really …   Read More

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    Learning How to Fly!

    Photo (C) Paul Wakelin. Lots has happened since my last post! The RYA Youth Nationals back in April was a very fickle, light wind event, and I was happy to come away with a 6th place in the Radial fleet, ensuring me coach support as part of a funded team for the Laser Radial Europeans. …   Read More

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    Laser Connaught Championships

    The weekend of 27th and 28th of June saw me compete in the Connaught Championships in Galway Bay Sailing Club on the west coast of Ireland. The forecast was looking windy so I was feeling confident; partially because I’m a heavy person for a 4.7 at 64 kg but also because I am now on …   Read More

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    Bad Weather

    I had hoped I would have been doing a good deal of sailing and been really getting into the season. Instead I seem to be spending far too much time watching the wind blown water cancelling another sailing day. It was meant to be the East Lothian regatta last weekend but with 50+ gusts on …   Read More

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    A new experience

    It’s taken me far too long to get around to writing this blog, I have now finished my AS Exams though so I thought I would finally get on with it. The monohull/catamaran debate often seems to split the sailing world, and I have always sailed monohull boats but few weekends ago, I sailed a catamaran …   Read More

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    Spring Update

    Since the start of the year I have continued to concentrate on my Laser 4.7 sailing. I competed in the Chichester Yacht Club Snowflake Series, where I finished 13th overall in the medium fleet. I...

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    Moving on up

    I’ve sailed at Bartley and at Upton Warren throughout the Autumn, Winter and Spring series and completed my Powerboat 2 qualification. I was very pleased to be awarded the Annual Youth Prize at Bartley back...

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  • Laser

    2015 So Far – Irish Laser Scene

    The year started off with the Munster championships in Baltimore sailing club with the 4.7 completing six races over two days in very light conditions. Having wind shifts all day for both days with the wind coming from all directions at some stage in the event.   Read More

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    Cold Loch Earn

    It was the first of the Laser Scottish Travellers for this season last weekend, over at Loch Earn. Most significantly it was Pete Malcolm’s 250th Scottish Laser Travellers event. He has been sailing Lasers since 1982 and has hardly missed an event since, winning a good number of them, especially in windy shifty conditions. It’s …   Read More

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    First laser events

    The last two weekends I have been taking part in the second two Laser radial qualifier weekends, my first two events competing against other Radials not from one of my home clubs. Two weekends ago was my first event. Being at Stokes Bay, my home club, I was hoping I would have a bit of …   Read More

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