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Optimist, Team RoosterBreeze on in Toulon, Submarines Stop Play and Winning in Monaco!
Iona: Optimist Interligue, Toulon, France. In the autumn holiday there was a sailing competition that I went to. It was an interligue for Southern France. There were about 200 optimists that travelled to Toulon for...
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Optimist, Team RoosterKatie Update Opi and Tera
Tera Sailing Weymouth DWSC Waiting for the Wind! Well what a season so far, Optimist Nationals followed by the Tera Nationals then the Optimist Late Season Event, with open events in the middle. I ended...
By Katie Byne1 1843 0 -
Optimist, Team RoosterDOT Report – Bart’s Bash
Draycote held a pursuit race on Sunday morning which was the Bart’s Bash Pursuit Race, we did 3 laps of the course and the Youth and Junior classes were last off the water. I was...
By Katie Byne1 1631 0 -
Optimist, Rooster, Team RoosterOpening Ceremony 2015 European Optimist Team Racing Championships Ledro Italy
Arrived today in Ledro Italy for the opening ceremony of the 2015 Optimist team racing championships after team racing training in Lymington last weekend. Should be 4 days of fun! Drew Wright
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Optimist, RoosterOptimist Coupe International d’Eté, Brittany
This summer I went to the French Nationals which were held in the north of Brittany in a small town called Plerin. Just before this event I had done the French Minimes Championships in Southern Brittany (where I had finished 20th overall in the Minimes Girls fleet). I had my Rooster Thermalflex packed as it … Read More
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Event Report, Optimist, RoosterOptimist Nationals Pwllheli 2015
I’ve just got back from Pwllheli after a week of racing for the Optimist Nationals followed by a week of helping on the committee boat at the 29er Nationals. . The Optimist Nationals had a...
By Matt Beck0 2121 0 -
Optimist, Team RoosterOptimist Nationals
Wow! Optimist Layday trying a 420 🙂 3 days of sailing in Trearddur Bay’s stunning scenery, fun sailing followed by a BBQ one evening, swimming another and Chinese takeaway another – yum! Sunshine and good winds then off to Pwllhelli on Friday evening in the pouring rain. The first days sailing was cancelled due to … Read More
By Katie Byne1 1879 0 -
Optimist, Team RoosterAnglian Water Series
Hi all I sailed at the Anglian series last weekend. It is for all sailors who are based in Northamptonshire, either by attending a school in the area or living in Northamptonshire. It was held at Banbury Sailing club near Boddington. We spent the morning training. The weather was brilliant with a steady breeze … Read More
By Katie Byne1 2292 0 -
Optimist, Team RoosterOptimist Europeans Training
It’s been a busy start to the season for Optimist sailors and its great to see Team Rooster blogging and competing. Well done to Matt Beck from Team Rooster for coming second at Hayling last week on difficult tides. I was pleased to win the Inland Championships at Grafham a few weeks ago and Matt … Read More
By Drew Wright0 1925 0 -
Optimist, RoosterWarsash Optimist Open
The weekend of the 11th & 12th of July was the Warsash Optimist Open combined with the Southern Area Championships. On the Saturday the wind was 5-10 knots as we sailed out to the race area in the Solent. The wind was shifty during R1 but for R2 had stabilised and increased to around 20 … Read More
By Matt Beck0 2313 0