• Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 January 2022

    The sailors who braved the conditions working hard! Write-up by Keith Poole There were a good number of sailors in attendance ready for races Five and Six of the January Series for the ‘Shipyard Trophy’, part of the Watling Streetworks Dinghy series on West Baldwin reservoir. Enthusiasm was initially high but soon the dark patches on the water showing where the gusts were grew more frequent, more varied in ...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 13 February 2022

    Report by Andrew Dean Despite there being force 5 or 6 winds gusting 7 in the Irish Sea, there were reasonable conditions at the West Baldwin reservoir when the fleet arrived to rig the dinghies on Sunday.  The first of two races the wind was a moderate southerly with a few gusts from the southeast to test the unwary.  Despite the forecast for a decrease, it was windier for the second.  A...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 20 March 2022

    March is a cruel month, it gives hints of summer but can still take you back to winter!  On Sunday at West Baldwin reservoir it gave us a lovely sunny, spring morning for the penultimate round of the Watling Streetworks Winter Series. What it took was any sense of direction from the brisk easterly wind which swirled across the Baldwin Valley gusting in every direction and strength including many and...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 27 February 2022

    Most of the Island's population will have been aware that February has been an exceptionally windy month.  It may come as a bit of a surprise to many that there has been dinghy racing for the Watling Streetworks series on West Baldwin reservoir. February series got off to a windy start, so much so that only three took to the water.  After quite a lot of swimming Bob Love took the win both on the water...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 6 March 2022

    Light Winds but sunshine! A better forecast than the whole of February brought out an enlarged fleet of eleven dinghies for the last month of the dinghy racing at West Baldwin reservoir on Sunday morning.  The first racing of the meteorological spring for the Watling Streetworks March Series was sailed in bright sunshine with a light breeze, though being from the east crossed the valley creating the usual...
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Junior Training 2022

RYA Junior and Adult ‘Learn to Sail’ returns to MS&CC in 2022. We plan to run  RYA dinghy training courses at the Club in a similar format to last year, that is in 2 courses of 6 evening sessions each on Mondays (under 16) and 2 courses on Wednesdays (generally adults), starting after Easter. The first sessions will be from:

Monday evenings 25 April to 30 May – 18.00 to 20.30 for junior students (age 10 to 16).

Wednesday evenings 27 April to 1 June – 18.00 to 20.30 for adults and juniors if space permits.

The second sessions will be from:

Monday evenings 13 June to 18 July – 18.00 to 20.30 for junior students (age 10 to 16).

Wednesday evenings 15 June to 20 July – 18.00 to 20.30 for adults and juniors if space permits.

The sessions will be run off the beach in front of the club using the RYA syllabuses for  Levels or Stages 1 to 4 plus racing, spinnaker and trapeze training for those seeking to advance their skills and experience.

Courses are £150 each or £120 for members. We expect some Covid precautions will apply.

For more information on the RYA go to https://www.rya.org.uk/start-boating

Please contact our Training Liaison Officer for further information –

Jerry Colman jerry.colman@manxbroadband.com (07624 495492)

*** COVID19 – Manx Sailing and Cruising Club operates in accordance with the Government Guidelines issues at the time, where any course is delayed or cancelled due to Government measures introduced at the time of the course relating to COVID19, a new date for the course will be arranged with participants or a full refund will be given ***