• Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 30 November 2025

    Write up by Jerry Colman A forecast of strong winds in the Irish Sea did not apply at Injebreck on Sunday where wisps and catspaws greeted the 12 boats in brilliant sunshine and some perfect reflections of Carraghan in the water. This didn’t look good for sailing but as we watched, a light breeze filled in from the North West tempting the fleet to get rigged up. Much interest was shown in Dave Batchelor’s ...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 14 December 2025

    Write up by Jerry Colman Attendance at the dinghy park at Injebreck on Sunday morning was a bit thinner than usual as might have been expected with a forecast windspeed of 30 knots and gusting over 40 from the South with rain. However, it didn’t look too bad on the water before the start although your correspondent did mention to Dave Batchelor (Supernova) that it looked a bit worse at the top of the lake when d...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 2 November 2025

    Write up by Jerry Colman Sunday morning saw the beginning of the MS&CC’s winter dinghy races on the reservoir at Injebreck. A fine fleet of 16 boats shepherded by Ralph Kee and Huw Bevan in our patrol boat ‘Hilary’ made it for the 10.00 start time, an excellent turn out.The enthusiasm may have been helped by some rather pleasant late October weather including balmy conditions at Injebreck on the prece...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 23 November 2025

    Write-up by Jerry Colman Tom Watterson sailing an RS Aero 7 took the November Series of the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Racing event at Injebreck on Sunday. Although finishing on equal points (12) with Dave Batchelor sailing a similar boat, Tom mustered two 1sts and three 2nds in the 8 race series while Batch made 2 wins but just the two 2nds, thereby conceding this very close-run series.On the day, Tom managed a...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 November 2025

    Write-up by Jerry Colman After a thinner turnout last Sunday morning (the 9th) for the Watling Streetworks Dinghy races 3 and 4 it was great to see a fleet of 18 dinghies on the start line for this Sunday’s races 5 and 6. Conditions for each the 4 races could have had a book written about them. Race 3, wet and windy southerly with big gusts so survival stakes all round – race 4 started just after race 3 but i...
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RTI Race Report 2017

The fleet heading to the Point of Ayre

The fleet heading to the Point of Ayre

Jerry Colman won the Ramsey Town Cup for a seventh time on Sunday in the 63rd IOM Copiers Round The Island Race, run by the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club.

Colman in his Sigma 33, Sea Pie of Cultra narrowly fended off the challenge of the Sydney 36, Tan-it, skippered by James Walker, by a mere two minutes on adjusted time. Tan-it crossed the line first on elapsed time at 3.15pm, with Sea Pie coming in an hour later.  Click here for the full write-up – IOM Copiers Round the Island Race 2017.