• 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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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 23 January 2022

    Write up by Keith Poole On Sunday morning there was a light southwest wind in the West Baldwin valley for competitors of the final races in Watling Streetworks Winter January series for the ‘Shipyard Trophy’.  It was thought that it would be a race off between Peter Cope and Teddy Dunn but both were at the Weymouth & Portland Sailing Academy racing 420 Dinghies. Peter crewing for Arwen Fflur and T...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 9 January 2022

    Jerry Colman chasing down Peter Cope Write-up by Jerry Colman The third and fourth races of the January Watling Streetworks Injebreck dinghy races took place on Sunday with a brisk and gusty westerly breeze and brightening conditions as the sun rose over the southern spurs of Carraghan and Slieau Ree. 12 boats from four of the Island’s sailing clubs hit the start line at 1000, all hoping for a shift or a gust ...
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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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