Mary Rook is working hard towards a campaign for the 2016 Olympic in either the NEW mixed catamaran or women's skiff classes.
Mary has spent the last three years Olympic sailing in the Women's Match Racing class. This pinnacle of this hard work was a World championship win 2010/11.
Mary now plans to build on this experience of top level international sailing and use all the skills she has learnt in a new campaign towards Olympic gold in 2016.Arriving in Eastbourne at the weekend we thought summer might have arrived! On went the flipflops and shorts as we rigged the boat in the sunshine!
After dragging the boat through the shingle, with the help of lots of strong men we launched into the light and shifty northerly gradient! We managed to get off the line cleanly a [...]
I've just returned from 10 days in Brittany where I have had the pleasure of sailing with Romain Bellet a french young sailor who won the Youth Worlds in 2008 and was 2nd in 2009.
I landed in Saint Malo and traveled down to Quiberon where the french olympic sailing base is and rigged up our Viper!
The Vipe [...]
This weekend Mari and I battled the high winds and rough conditions at Highcliffe Sailing club in the Rs800!
There were 24 boats for us to practice our racing skills against along with lots of RS200's and 700's that were sharing the race course with us.
The first day started out well it was sunny and [...]
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