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Tillerman
One More Journey Around the Sun
Looking back at 12 months of blundering around in an RS Aero...
Annoyingly Quick
RS Aero 9 world champion and coach, Marc Jacobi, commented that I was “annoyingly quick” at the Sanford Sailfest Regatta in Florida this weekend… I think that was a compliment? I did have a good...
D-Zero, RS21, Yacht Club Signs and Contenders at Garda via Earwigoagin
One of my favorite sailing blogs of all time is Earwigoagin which is written by Tweezerman. This last week’s posts have been typical of the variety of interesting sailing news and discussion which he covers. Last...
Rolling the Dice
On Saturday morning I wrote How to Slowly Sail Faster in which I tried to convince myself I might get better at RS Aero racing. Then on Saturday afternoon I went frostbiting in Bristol and actually won a race. First...
Maverick – The Next Big Thing?
Can’t decide whether to buy a stand-up paddleboard, a windsurfer or a sailing dinghy? Why not have it all? Buy a Maverick. It is all of the above… and another option called Stand Up Sailing. All for...
Two More Stupid Things
After writing two posts Don’t Do Stupid Shit and What Did I Learn? about all my mistakes on the first day of our frostbiting season at Bristol YC last week, I did manage (more or less) not to repeat the same...
2018 US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman of the Year – Who Will Win?
In recent days US Sailing opened nominations for the 2018 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year awards, and Scuttlebutt published a preliminary list of candidates for both awards. Scuttlebutt listed 18 possible...
Don’t Do Stupid Shit
The last President of the United States said in 2014 that one maxim of his foreign policy was, “Don’t do stupid shit!” – which is just as relevant to sailing as it is to managing America’s...
Take the Leap – Buy an RS Aero
“Why would I buy an RS Aero?” say all the Laser sailors. “There are 40-50 Lasers racing in our frostbite fleet every weekend in the winter, and Laser regattas to go to every weekend in the summer, and...
Throwback Thursday – Rutland Water
Me in my first Laser – #93933 with an orange hull – at Rutland Sailing Club in the UK sometime in the late 1980s. I sold that Laser to a fellow RSC member when we moved to America at the end of 1988. I...
RS Aero in the Olympics?
World Sailing is currently evaluating what boats should be used in the Paris Olympics in 2024 for the Men’s and Women’s One Person Dinghy events. The current boats for these events are the Laser and Laser...
Warning Signs of Hypothermia
As we look forward to the start of the RS Aero frostbiting season in Bristol this weekend, I thought it would be helpful to alert all my fellow frostbite sailors to the warning signs of hypothermia. Thanks to the...
Time to Prepare for Frostbtiting
The Bristol RS Aero Frostbite Fleet will be kicking off our 2018-2019 season at Bristol YC (in Rhode Island) this Saturday. Well, yes, the BYC clubhouse did have a major fire a few days ago and is closed pending...
Bill Symes – World Champion
I turned 70 this year. My doctor congratulated me on this milestone at a check-up shortly after my birthday and shared this cheery thought, “One good thing about being 70 is that now you know you are not going to...
Should I Buy a Laser or an RS Aero?
In 2012, Nick from Sydney bought a Laser and started a blog about Laser racing on Sydney Harbour. In 2017, he bought an RS Aero and started to blog about the relative merits of the Laser and the Aero. I am sure I...