Every year I attend my local regatta week, which is a week full of sailing & carnival celebrations. A long distance yacht race over Sunday & Monday gets proceedings underway with a firework display on the Monday evening. Racing for all the other boats then gets underway on Tuesday morning and continues all the way …
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My Dad says some older sailors may get the title reference to a book he has lost – I didn’t get it either! Its been a great Summer holidays so far! Starting at Garda, then Stokes Bay Sailing Club Cadet Week – Over 90 kids sailing! Followed by the Topper 5.3 Nationals and then …
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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
Photo: (c) Toby Adamson/ ProAction The RS200 Nationals this year were held at South Caenarvonshire Yacht Club in Abersoch, North Wales, and it is a stunning venue! The sailing club is built into a cliff over looking the beach where all the boats sit in front of the beach huts. If I’m being picky it …
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So far it has been a very eventful summer for me. The first big event was the Streaker national championships in Weymouth over the 3rd to 5th of July. This was my first Streaker event and jolly good fun it was too! The forecast was for a breezy weekend of racing in Portland Harbour, with …
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What a fantastic 2 weeks I have enjoyed in Riva del Garda! Beautiful blue skies, breeze and fab sunshine – however very hot. Hamish and I trained hard over the past two years and had really set our hearts on doing well at the Cadet World Championships in the promotional fleet. The competition was very …
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After lots of preparation and training the wait was finally over; the Topper Nationals were finally here. My aim coming into the event was to finish in the top half of Gold Fleet which meant better than 32nd. Saturday 8 Aug
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The curtains have come down and the singing has finished at the RS200 Nationals for another year. Congratulations to James Peters and Jo Wright on their victory, and also to fellow Team Rooster sailors George Yeoman and Sophie Ormsby for a fantastic 2nd place. A great time was had by all, the venue delivered on …
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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 …
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With the Topper Nationals fast approaching I have spent the past three days down in Weymouth training with a group of sailors. We spent a lot of time working on our low speed boat handling...