Search the site
Tell Friends about SailJuice
Share/Save/Bookmark

Follow me on Twitter
Sailing News
You are here: Home » Dinghy Sailing Diary
Download Print Send a summary of this page to someone via email.
Dinghy Sailing Diary...

A look at what's going on in the world of dinghy racing. Andy Rice gives his view on the latest developments in sailboat racing, Olympic sailing, up and coming sailors, and much more....

Optimist midway through a roll tack
Optimist Dinghy midway through a beautifully executed roll tack....



Featured Articles

  Roll Tacks - December 2009
The post-Olympic year is the time for the up-and-coming sailors to make hay while last year's Olympic medallists are opening supermarkets and cashing in on the after-dinner speech circuit. Traditionally the year after the Games is a ‘soft' year, although probably not as soft as it used to be, now that the circuit has become so professional...
  Roll Tacks - November 2009
Phil Sparks shows all the signs of being one of Skandia Team GBR's stars of the future. He first made his mark in the Optimist, winning two National Championships before moving into the 420. Phil and crew Ben Gratton dominated some international events earlier this season, and capped the year with a gold-medal winning performance in Brazil at the Volvo ISAF Youth World Championship...
  Roll Tacks - October 2009
It was a beautiful sunny day for the Medal Race finals of Skandia Sail for Gold in Weymouth. Trouble was, there was no wind. Still, this left plenty of time for talking. And with Phil Jones, head of Yachting Australia, and Luca Devoti, Olympic silver medallist and boatbuilder, there is always plenty to talk about...
  Roll Tacks - September 2009
Ever noticed how they always mention the ages of people in newspaper stories? I know political correctness means we're not meant to judge people by their ages, but it's what we all do. Never is this truer than in sport, where footballers over the age of 30 are seen to be in the twilights of their careers, and swimmers over 25 are looked upon as veterans...
  Roll Tacks - August 2009
It's not often that the big names of sailing return to their roots to compete in the old dinghy classes that they grew up in. Maybe it's a bit of a busman's holiday for a professional sailor to spend his leisure time sailing too, even if it is in a dinghy rather than a keelboat...
  Roll Tacks - July 2009
As well as being one of the top coaches in the country, Adam Bowers has won more than his fair share of championships, not least a Fireball World Championship crewing for Welsh wizard DJ Edwards. What a lot of people might not know about Adam is that some of his titles he has won with boats most people would have considered ready for the scrap heap...
  Roll Tacks - June 2009
It's not often you get genuine breakthroughs in dinghy sailing, especially as we find ourselves sailing increasingly in strict one-designs. Not that I'm complaining about one-designs, because that's where the best racing is to be found. But I do think that one-design racers should pay their tax to the development classes that keep on throwing good ideas their way...
  Roll Tacks - May 2009
For the best part of 20 years I've been hanging off the side of boats from a trapeze...
  Roll tacks - April 2009
Kids are growing up bigger now than they did 20, 30 or 40 years ago, so how come the boat - or rather the rig - has got smaller? I rang up the recently appointed RYA Youth Manager Duncan Truswell to get his view on the situation...
  Roll Tacks - March 2009
Back in March 2003 I was sitting in the bottom of my 49er in between starts at a Rutland open meeting, wondering if I should check my mobile phone - which hopefully was still dry in its sealable food bag under the spinnaker sock. Taking a mobile phone on the water is not usual practice for me, but it was the weekend my wife was due to give birth...
 
more articles >>