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Recently on my new blog - Aerobian - I have been writing about the Olympic Trials to select the boats for the Men's and Women's One Person Dinghy Events in the 2024 Olympics. How the RS Aero (almost) got selected for the Olympics What the Olympic Evaluation Panel really said about the RS Aero Croatian man has answer on how to get RS Aeros into the Olympics Enjoy.

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I haven't sailed my Laser since April. It sits there on its trailer in my garage and looks at me mournfully every time I choose to go RS Aero sailing. The photo above is from John Dawson-Edwards' Facebook page and show John's friends in Canada loading up a trailer with Lasers to drive down to Florida for some Laser regattas. It is true that the Laser is basically twice the weight of an RS

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Looks like the team at RS Sailing in the UK had a lot of fun making a video of their version of the 12 Days of Christmas. I recognize a couple of the culprits in the front row. That's Ben Rolfe - UK RS Aero Class Social Secretary - in the red white and blue sweater, second from the left in the front row. And Riki Hooker - International Sales Director for RS Sailing - in fine voice on Ben's

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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the land Not an Aero was sailing, all racing was canned It was time for the American class to look back On which of the sailors had been top of the pack. In the first month of the year the boys in Seattle O'Brien and Falk and Bottles did battle But what a surprise - the mighty are fallen The Frigid Digit was won by some ringer named Dalton. Down

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Yesterday I wrote a blog post about the selection of Tillerson as the next US Secretary of State. Today I notice an abnormal amount of traffic to the blog, about 75% of it coming from Russia. (There is usually not a lot of interest from Russia in my humble little RS Aero sailing blog.) Are the Russians trying to hack my blog? You should probably be very skeptical about any stories you see

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The news is out! On this blog my son is usually known as Tiller Extension #1, but his real name (as Tillerman's son) is of course, Tillerson. And the news has just been made public!  Donald Trump has selected Tillerson to be his Secretary of State. I am so proud, not only for my son's amazing achievement but also for the whole RS Aero Class. In a brief statement, Mr. Trump

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Thanks to Live Sail Die and Vela Mure a Dritta for posting this amazing sailing take on the mannequin challenge. What is your favorite mannequin challenge video?

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This children's song (first recorded in 1956) was often played on the radio in England when I was a boy. It has absolutely nothing to do with sailing, except that a sailor friend drew my attention to it. Nellie the Elephant is suddenly topical again because of its chorus line, "Trump, Trump, Trump." That's all that seems to be on the news these days. Trump, Trump, Trump. "Klu Klux Klan

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Wordle from December 2013 Wordle from 2016

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45 years ago today, November 6 1971, I met a girl. 44 years ago this weekend I asked her to sign on with me for life. Amazingly she said yes. All these years later, the same girl is still with me. Best crew ever!

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Don't you just hate it when this happens? Still, it could have been worse. Nobody was injured and the sponsor's brand name wasn't affected at all.

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Thought you would enjoy this video of Chris Arnell in an RS 300, as he puts it, making an "almost perfect escape onto port tack last weekend ;)" I think that semicolon and parenthesis are meant to indicate he is joking. I assume this is the same gentleman who writes the hilarious RS300 393 - adventures of a boat and her incompetent skipper blog. I think I have written about his blog before.

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Shelter From The Storm from Vimeo. A classic from the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. May all my sailing friends find shelter from the storm when they need it.

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Should I sell my old Laser? There it is. Stuck in the corner of the garage with a couple of bikes. Behind the lawnmower. A convenient shelf on which to store my RS Aero foils. It's now October and I just realized I haven't sailed my Laser since April. All summer, I have been ignoring the Laser and sailing my RS Aero instead. How did that happen? It wasn't the original plan. When I

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Sunday, the third and final day of racing in the RS Aerocup at Malcesine on Lake Garda was another beautiful day of sailing in paradise. The southerly breeze kicked in dead on time for our first start at 1pm and we were off. A start. But where is Tillerman? Buried again it seems! Mike Saqui - my nemesis on the race course - with boat flat and game face on. He did beat me by a few

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Last Thursday, on the day before racing started at the RS Aerocup on Lake Garda, Peter Barton the RS Aero International Class Manger (and by the way one of the best sailors in the class) ran a clinic for some the sailors. I have heard Peter give pre-regatta clinics on three occasions over the past two years and every time there is something new to learn. Peter says that the more he races the

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Thanks for SBG Films for these photos from Day 2 of the RS Aerocup on Lake Garda. Wow! The waves were even bigger than I remembered. Liina Kolk from Estonia - RS Aero 5 Champion Karlijn van den Boogaard from the Netherlands. Youngest competitor. Ben Rolfe from Great Britain. RS Aero 9 champion. Kate Sargent from Great Britain. A very close second in the RS

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Photos from Day 1 of the RS Aerocup at Lake Garda - thanks to SBG Films. Per Christian Bordal from Norway currently leading the 24 boat strong RS Aero 7 fleet with six bullets in seven races after two days of racing. A start. Where is Tillerman? Peter Barton GBR (orange visor) RS Aero International Class Manager - lying second in the RS Aero 7 fleet after two days of racing.

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The view from our hotel at breakfast time. A light northerly breeze,  which will likely switch to the south around lunchtime and build during the early afternoon. Just like it has every other day. Perfect conditions for RS Aero sailing. The regatta started yesterday (Friday.) There was a skippers meeting at 11:30. After the usual welcome speeches and one good question and several

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Today I went sailing on Lake Garda. It was the one day clinic before the RS Aerocup. Winds started at around 12 knots and built up to 18 knots during the afternoon. Lots of sailors capsized. I didn't capsize. Lots of sailors were faster than me. A few sailors weren't. At first I felt very clumsy and out of touch with how to sail in waves in medium-strong winds. Then for a while I

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Tillerwoman and I are currently staying in Malcesine on Lake Garda in Italy. That's Malcesine in the foreground in the picture. The prominent castle is the Castello Scaligero. It's been there an awful long time. I am sailing in a little RS Aero regatta on the lake later in the week, but on Wednesday I did some husbandly sightseeing things with Tillerwoman. In the afternoon we climbed to

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Went for a bit of a stroll with Tillerwoman by the side of the lake this morning. Saw a couple of these... And a whole bunch of these... Hmmm. What should I sail this week? PS. I think the title of the post is the Italian way of saying, "Tick this off your bucket list while you still can."

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