Recent news

15 January 2012

After a shifty and patchy week at the Paralympic classes world championships in Charlotte Harbour, Florida, Skandia Team GBR emerged with a Gold medal for the SCUD sailors Alex Rickham and Niki Birrell, and a Bronze for Sonar sailors John Robertson, Steve Thomas, and Hannah Stodel. (coached by Mark Rushall!). We are now on our way south to Miami for the Olympic Classes regatta, starting Monday.

14 December 2011

Packed with tuning and boat handling action and tips, the new Smart RS200 dvd is now available from this site. Featuring National Champion James Peters, and written and produced by Mark Rushall, Smart RS200 is a must for aspiring RS200 sailors, with plenty to interest other assymtric sailors as well.

Buy Smart RS200

8 December 2011

Very busy few weeks on the voluntary work with RYA Council, Marketing Committee and the RYA Volunteers Awards ceremony.  Really interesting to be involved with the RYA at this time of restructuring Council to create more effective ways of working - and looking forwards some effective debate, especially on how we build membership of the organisation. 

Also, it's fascinating to begin to understand the breadth and depth of the work of the RYA's various departments covering so many important issues for the welfare of our sport, such as safety, environment, and government agendas - before you begin to scratch the surface of the whole racing and cruising sector.

2 December 2011

We are looking forwards to an interesting agenda at the World Yacht Racing Forum 2011 in Portugal on 13-14 December, featuring some new themes including growing the sport, women in sailing, regatta and sailing team management.  Liz Rushall will be moderating one of the round table discussions at the Forum.

9 November 2011

It's finished! The new Smart RS200 DVD, written and produced by Rushall Partnership and featuring national champ James Peters, is complete and on its way to the shelves at RS Sailing. Click on i-coach for a video preview. And come back to this site soon to buy your copy!

30 October 2011
For an insight into the highs and lows of coaching for Skandia Team GBR, come to Mark's talk at Queen Mary Sailing Club on 7 March: thank you for the booking!

15 October 2011
Liz Rushall is running a sponsorship workshop for the British Keelboat Squad at the UKSA in Cowes on 12 November to help the sailors in their search for campaign sponsors.

10 September 2011
The Rushall Partnership enjoyed a great day out watching the AC45's ... can't help thinking some of them should come to our "Big Picture" talk in Dartmouth on 29 Feb: all welcome!
Good to see many of Liz's AC recomendations working in practice.. read more.

From a coaching perspective, the move of the day came from Dean Barker in the Red boat: setting himself up at the top of the run to protect the "go right" mark at the bottom: 3rd to first and a big enough gain to allow a covering tack on the next beat: game over!

Think Mark might write a Y and Y article about that....