My main racing dinghy is a National 12, so it is slightly odd that I’m starting my first blog about a different dinghy! However, last Saturday, with the temperature rising above 20 degC, it was...
This weekend the Topper fleet headed to Grafham Water for the National Inland Championships. It was an important one because it was the last event before the qualifiers for squads, so everyone was keen to...
Hello, I’m Frances. I am so excited to be part of the Team and start blogging! I sail Toppers at the moment but am looking to move into Lasers. So after four sails in a...
Hi everybody! We are Laura and Francesco, the new Team Rooster for the NACRA 17 class. We are really happy to be part of the Rooster family and we proudly wear all our kit every...
On 16th April I travelled up to Northampton for the Grand prix. When we arrived the conditions looked very patchy and light, this made us a bit anxious as we had not sailed in these...
The 2016 sailing season on Lake Ontario has finally kicked off for myself and the Ontario Sailing Team. Anticipation had been building as a mild winter teased us into expecting an early spring, only then...
Last weekend we headed to an RS400 Sprints event at Rutland Sailing Club, which was attended by 24 very good RS400 teams. Temperatures were low, but the wind forecast was perfect, with a northerly force...
Next stop for the Topper National series was Datchet Water Sailing Club for the third event in the series. The forecast for the event was light, unstable wind, which has always been my achilles heel,...
After a long winters’ training it’s finally spring! I don’t think my fingers would have survived the cold weather without my pair of Hot Hands underneath my normal sailing gloves. I have (well mum and...
On the 26-28 March, I was back in Hyeres for the first “interligue” regatta of 2016 with my sister. My objective was to finish all the races – this might seem a strange objective, but...