24 RS Aero sailors entered the Christmas edition of the Lymington sprint racing on the river at the top of the tide. With strong winds whipping across the river the fleet divided into RS Aero 5s and RS Aero 7s with the RS Aero 7s split into two equal fleets for a qualifier and then…
Thirty RS Aeros entered for the Bowmoor Bubble, the first event of this winter’s RS Aero UK Winter Series. The rain stopped soon after rigging and the 30kn gusts never materialised, leaving a pleasant days racing in a medium breeze. The Bowmoor RS Aero fleet continues to go from strength to strength. They now have…
A fabulous weekend of racing was had at Rutland, concluding both the RS Aero UK Southern and Northern Circuits. The varied and testing weekend gave a fitting finale to a busy year for the UK RS Aeros. A very windy Pursuit Race on Saturday, a great Saturday night gathering and then three calmer PY fleet…
15 RS Aeros with 8 visitors from as far away as Yorkshire and South Wales joined 7 Chelmarsh RS Aeros for the 2018 RS Aero Open at picturesque Chelmarsh Sailing Club in Shropshire. In a light and shifty breeze, Race Officer Steve Taylor got the first of 2 morning back to back races off with…
2019 will be the 20th anniversary of the RS800 class. To celebrate, the European Championships in July is returning to Lake Garda, spiritual home of the RS800, and an awesome Nationals is being planned at Eastbourne SSC in early September. The Nationals will include a Reunion event for all past and current RS800 sailors, details…
Nineteen sailors signed up for the RS Aero Northern Championships at East Lothain Yacht Club in the seaside town of North Berwick. Six local sailors were joined by visitors from clubs as far apart as the Isle of Man, Warrington, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Aberdeen. Several arrived Friday and sampled the delights of the Puffin and…
For 3 weeks in August WPNSA, the 2012 Olympic Sailing venue, played host to the largest one-design dinghy event the UK has ever seen. The RS Games celebrated almost 25 years of RS sailing and brought together all the RS racing fleets and sailors aged 8 to 80 from across the world. 1300 sailors in…
Rain rain go away come back when the RS200s are here. Day one of the RS800 Nationals dawned with it chucking it down with rain which is safe to say isn’t what we expected from the 2018 great British summer. However, thankfully the weather got the message and once the thorough briefing and welcome was…
The final day of the 206 boat RS Aero Worlds dawned with the likelihood of 30kn gusts. Fortunately the final two races were scheduled within the relative shelter of Portland Harbour. The stage was set for a grande finale with the whole podium up for grabs in the RS Aero 5 fleet and the silver…
Yet another big day out on Weymouth and Portland Bay! We launched into a light northerly and after one aborted race as the wind switched we had 3 more races for the four flights, totalling 205 RS Aeros, in an increasing south westerly peaking at over 20 knots. RS Aero 9 – by Richard Watsham,…
