Despite using Polilite® in its many diameters for many years, I am embarrassed to say that I have only just realised that you can taper Polilite®. Basically, you can take the centre core out of...
It has been a busy start to the season so far. HISC RS200 Open Hayling played host to 48 boats for the Summer Championships. This was our first 200 event of the year in a...
Photo credit: Paul Hargreaves A couple of weeks ago Ethan and I were at RS200 Youth Squad training. We’d known all week that the conditions were likely to be pretty wild and when we arrived...
Winter is the time for fixing and upgrading your boat. It’s not always the most fun thing to do but definitely worth it when the season comes. We have recently been sorting our new RS200...
Photos courtesy of Roger Mant. There was a small yelp, and then a splash, and I realised I was alone in the boat, kite up, hurtling towards the leeward mark in 25kts of breeze. Glancing...
It’s not easy settling back into the office routine after two back-to-back national championships at the RS200s followed by the Moths, but the memories of these past two weeks of fantastic sailing are still fresh...
Photo Credit: Sportography.tv The last championship of the summer was the RS200 Nationals at Mounts Bay, where 96 teams turned up to a very breezy Penzance bay, with gusts of 40 knots recorded on Saturday....
It’s been a busy summer so far to say the least. Following on from my week at the i14 Nationals POW (see my blog on that here) I headed to the Morgan Cup team racing...
[Foreword from David] In the build-up to the Nationals next week, this blog post comes from Sophie, who started sailing with me a few months ago following a chance encounter at Grafham Water and the...
The Wilson Trophy is the pinnacle of the UK team racing scene. It is the one event that people want to win, maybe even more so than the Nationals, which has led the “British Open...