“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I want to be a better sailor. Who doesn’t? In my lifelong quest to improve my skills I have sought advice from many coaches and other good sailors, but I often find myself asking, “What would Eric do?”...
I am a bad blogger. Apologies to my three followers for the long interruption in service. Let's try one more time to get this show on the road. What have I been doing since I last posted?
At the Sarasota One Design Midwinters last month I had the pleasure of meeting Sean Fidler who is a Pan-American Games gold medalist in sailing and an accomplished sailboat racer in multiple classes. I think it was the...
Some winters we get a lot of snow in New England. Some winters we seem to get a blizzard every week. In years like those it’s good to get away from winter and go sailing in Florida. This year I went to an RS Aero...
On the last Saturday in February, we set a new record for the size of our new RS Aero frostbiting fleet at Bristol YC. Eight boats! Who are all these people? Where are they all coming from? The winds were from the NW...
Just when I thought I knew how to tack, Steve Cockerill of Rooster Sailing fame comes up with this odd idea. I was always been taught that in a center mainsheet boat the right way to tack is facing forward. I have been...
One Saturday back in February I had run out of excuses to not go frostbite racing, so I headed over to Bristol YC for my first time racing there since November.
Tillerman
