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    The Art of Crewing

    The Art of Crewing an RS 400 For all those out there who are looking to learn a bit more about crewing or are wondering how others do things in the boat we thought we’d put this quick guide together on some of our techniques. These are just some of the things we do which …   Read More

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    Another windy weekend

    Hi, it is Sophie here again and I sail with Rachel Mawer in the 420. We had another squad training at Cumbrae last weekend. It was rather windy on the Friday and after looking at the forecast we all decided to take only 2 out of the 3 boats on the water and share them …   Read More

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    Sailing on your own can be good too!

    A lot has happened since my last post! After a long and tough selection process, I finally achieved my yearly goal of getting into the RYA Radial Transitional Squad 2013/2014, which I was of course...

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    My Sailing Story…

    As a younger kid in school I never really enjoyed sports, I was always the last one to get picked for teams and while I wasn’t particularly bad at sports I just found any form of exercise a real bore. About a year and a half ago that all changed…   Read More

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    Winter Training

    Last weekend, Sophie and I attended our 3rd squad camp together. The highlight, for me, was the upwind sailing on Saturday, when the wind was gusting over 30 knots! Unfortunately, some of the gusts were...

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    A bit of double tacks…(and other stuff)

    Hi all, This is Sophie here and I was sailing with Rachel in the 420 again last weekend on Cumbrae for the Scottish Squad. After Saturday I found out my drysiuit leaked and so I...

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    Harvey and Bobby’s First Blog

    We’re the new Team Rooster members. We became a team after the RS Feva Worlds 2013 (which Bobby won!) as both of our previous partners were moving onto 29ers. We thought we would use this blog to introduce ourselves and give a quick update on what we’ve been busy doing since then…. So after spending …   Read More

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    Eskimo!? Forget the fur, bring your supertherm

    The forecast hinted that it was going to be an interesting days sailing for the Eskimo Pursuit Race and Blackpool & Fleetood on 5th Jan, a fact that was confirmed when we turned up 2 hours before...

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    Winter bites – but not at the Bloody Mary

    It’s been a quiet winter on the water for the Sargent family. Seems like whenever there’s been a chance to get on the water it’s either been too windy, or one of us has been ill. I guess that’s the payback for an autumn in which the kids were able to sail their Teras right …   Read More

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    Sophie and Rachel 420 – Windy Day!

    Rachel and I haven’t been able to do as much sailing in the past month as we had hoped. It had been too windy to sail the weekends before Christmas and one event was even...

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