I hope you all had a great Christmas with lots of Rooster goodies to unwrap. Hopefully the New year will bring more great sailing too. I have been a little quiet with my posts this...
Now the festive period has come to an end and normal day to day life has resumed, it’s time to take a look at some of my plans for the year ahead. I start the...
Photo credit: Ian Roman / PYC Youth Week 2017. As Autumn approaches many sailors pack their boats up for the winter, while the hard core sailors review their boats and clothing, gearing up for the...
Applications are now CLOSED! Thanks to everyone who applied, we’ve had some epic #InYourElement stories from far and wide, including an application from a rooster called Steve. Missed out? – subscribe to the Rooster blog...
During the last few months I have started crewing a 420 for the first time. Before that I had been sailing Optimists and this transition has been a lot of hard work but also a...
After a fantastic summer racing the Laser 4.7 fleet in the UK and overseas, following this year’s Laser 4.7 Nationals in Abersoch it was time step up and into the Radial. In theory it should...
My two children, Iona and Callum, started sailing Optimists when they were 7 years old. That was 7 years ago! It all started with a summer holiday to Corsica and a walk along the beach....
Six days of racing lay ahead of us for the 420 Junior Europeans 2017. Gemma and I had trained with our team for four days prior to the event, each day of our training we...
It is a little known fact that the search for perfection is over. To be honest it ended precisely 50 years ago when a little factory in the Netherlands gave birth to a 670kg 17-foot...
Last month I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent Great Britain at the European Para Youth Games held in Genoa, Italy. There were over 600 Para Athletes from 26 countries competing in...