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    2014 Topper Nationals at Pwllheli

    This Year was my last year sailing a topper, therefore the topper nationals was an important event for me, and Pwllheli is a venue I love, so I was looking forward to it. My aim was to get into gold fleet. There was some extreme weather for the first day of racing, however the wind …   Read More

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    Hill Head RS Feva Open With My Little Brother

    What do you do when your usual crew can ‘t sail with you? Summon your siblings and select. I agreed to have my brother crew for me in our RS Feva in a very gusty northerly day at Hill Head. My brother having never crewed a Feva before didn’t really have a clue what to …   Read More

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    RS200 Nationals

    Last week was the RS200 Nationals at Hayling Island SC, always a great venue for a championship (minus the sand). Going into the week a number of sailors had been tipped as ones to watch (see the runners and riders list written in the style of “Game of Thrones”: http://www.rs200sailing.org/docs/champs/RS200_Runners_and_Riders.pdf ). However the line up was strong, including …   Read More

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    Round and Round in Essex

    Hi its Matt Smith. Wow, what a great week of sailing at both Brightlingsea Sailing Club and Dabchicks/West Mersea Yacht Club. Brightlingsea race week (Pyefleet Week)  started on the 10th of August. This year was the first time theres been an RS Tera fleet there so naturally I was very excited.   Read More

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    Summer of Sailing and Laser Nationals

    It’s been a while since my last post and a lot has happened! After completing my GCSEs, a summer of sailing began, with the aim of stepping my sailing up a level for the Youth Squad qualifiers in the Autumn. The Laser Radial Youth Europeans in a beautiful Denmark provided the first challenge, especially as …   Read More

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    Hitting the water

    After a long time since I last posted a lot has gone on, I can’t say that everything has gone brilliantly or I have won lots of competitions, but what I can say is that...

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    New Rooster Gear – very excited!

    Well I came home today to find a lovely present from the family by way of the Rooster coop.  A box of new gear.  Very excited to try it out: it will give a nice morale boost to Clare and me for the 2000 Nationals at Exe Sailing Club starting on Sunday.  So what did …   Read More

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    Welsh national championship success!

    Hi everyone this is my first blog as a Team Rooster sailor. As everyone else has said, I will try to blog about my successes and losses in the forthcoming events I hope to enter....

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    Tera update

    Hi, it’s Matt Smith again. I’ve had an eventful past four weeks in my RS Tera. 4 weeks ago I had the Southern Area championships, these were at Hayling Island, a club I had never been to before and was very impressed with.  The race management was fantastic and Chichester Harbour was great to sail in. …   Read More

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    Feva Grand Prix at Stokes Bay

    Not a great day today!  In the morning as we were about to tow the Feva down to Stokes Bay, Dad realised that the shroud had been dragged along the road as it towed back...

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