Hamble River Sailing Club is pleased to announce its invitation to the RS400 class to join the 58th Hamble Warming Pan dinghy open meeting, along with all non-trapeze dinghies rated PY 970-1172 and Foxer dinghies. Classes within the PY group will race in two handicap fleets with those mustering eight boats or more getting a separate start, and…
79 RS made the RS Aero UK Inland Champs at Rutland SC the largest weekend RS Aero event yet as the Class continues to grow. Medium breezes prevailed over the weekend and the three RS Aero fleets raced off Class starts with inner and outer loop courses spreading competitors across the lake. Ben Rolfe (Burghfield)…
The 2019 RS Feva World Championships have kicked off with a bang in the beautiful town of Follonica. The 200 boats will race in a qualification series for two days before splitting into gold, silver and bronze fleet for the final series. This is the biggest EVER RS double-handed event with 23 different nations! The…
Great to have 43 RS Aeros out at Lymington from 48 overall entries, after a dire forecast of very light winds beforehand. With a fair amount of ‘going large’ occurring we had good sized RS Aero 7 & RS Aero 9 fleets and a smaller RS Aero 5 fleet this time. As the wind picked up…
A new event for 2019, 11 RS Aeros competed out of Kelly Park in Merritt Island, Florida, March 9/10th as part of the RS Aero US Winter Series. Following an excellent pre event clinic on the Friday the weather forecast for Saturday looked to be fairly light but the short sail from the beach to the…
The theme for the 2019 RYA Dinghy is #MyDinghyTribe and the Merlin Rocket Owners Association feels this is very apt, as we like to think of ourselves as a bit of a tribe, we are the #MyMerlinTribe. We are practically one big family, and to be honest, if you look at the number of marriages…
RS Sailing are excited to introduce an open sailmaker format for the RS21 class racing. The concept of the RS21 began with the key focus to keep the boat affordable and open to a broad range of customers using the one-design ethos. Sails can be an expensive part of any boat ownership and in the…
While Storm Erik gripped the nation the RS Aero Youth Team prepared for an exiting weekend of Winter Training at Datchet Sailing Club. On the Saturday morning the conditions didn’t look promising with gusts of 35knots; so while the 30+ sailors in the RS Aero Rooster Youth Team waited for the wind to calm down,…
The 3rd RS Aero World Championships is set to enjoy the Australian summer as a climatic end to the 2019 season, set over New Year at Black Rock YC, Melbourne. The two previous World Championships started out with 100 RS Aeros at Carnac, France, in 2017 and then doubled in size to over 200 RS…
Weekend 2 of the 6 weekend RS Aero Youth Winter Training Programme visited a breezy but mild Chew Valley SC on 8/9th December with the Youth Team of 30 young sailors braced for a fun but testing time afloat. The weekend was focused on tactics, and ensuring that you were always in a position to…
