• Rutland National Series 2 and other stuff…

    Rutland was a very enjoyable and unpredictable weekend, completely dominated by a certain Crispin who blew away competition to win the event by a substantial margin and on top of that, won the races by absolutely huge leads, up to a leg at times! There was a solid turnout and racing started in a fairly …   Read More

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  • Winning the RS Feva Nationals

    Finally all our hard work, effort and training has paid of. it was tiring and mentally tough 3 days but we managed to get through and win it. This is the report on the RS Feva nationals: Over the Whitsun Bank Holiday the 2013 UK RS Feva National Championships were hosted by Thorpe Bay Sailing …   Read More

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  • The highs and lows of sailing

    Since my last post things have been a bit mixed. I think I have sailed well but it has not always gone to plan. After the Tera Start of Seasons it was back to the Topper for the Inlands at Gratham. Day one went well with two seconds and a fifth, this saw me as …   Read More

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  • Regatta Fix

    I took my old Wednesday Night Club Race Laser over to the East Lothian regatta a couple of weekends ago. I need my regatta fix while we get ourselves used to the 500, so this...

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  • Sometimes its just about the joy of it….

    Wow. Last night was one of those times, when the results don’t really matter either. After weeks in which the breeze has died, and the tide has been ebbing as we fought our way home to finish in the near dark, finally we had a north-easterly that kept on giving and a flood to help …   Read More

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  • Sailing: a sport of infinite variety

    Clare has brought you up to speed with some of our recent adventures – one of the things I love about this sport is that there is so much variety in the conditions which we face, and in the different ways we can do it. I’ve had a three week period of evening club racing …   Read More

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  • How Music can help your Sailing…

    If you’re a human, the chances are that you have listened to music at some point in your life, and it is likely that you have a favourite genre of music which you are inclined to listen to more than other types of music. The following technique could work with any kind of music-it just …   Read More

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  • Tera Start of Season Championships

    Last weekend was the Rs Tera Start of season championships, as I am planning on doing the Rs Tera worlds I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some time racing in the...

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  • Sargent Family Capsize Adventure

    Matt and I agreed that we needed to do capsize and turtle drills with the kids in Zoomy after friends had a capsize entrapment incident at last weekend’s 2000 Inland Champs.  We did the drills a little earlier than planned…   Read More

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  • Team Rooster New Members

    Hi just thought I’d introduce us on our first Team Rooster blog.  We are the Sargent family.  I’m Clare Sargent.  My life is spent battling with four sets of partially dry and sometimes stinky sailing kit.  Matt is my fast and noisy helm.  He is not allowed the sweets in my buoyancy aid.  These go …   Read More

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