Dinghy
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 11 February 2024
A forecast of 8 to 10 knots maybe gusting 11 or 12 West with sunshine attracted a fleet of 14 boats including some of our old (and one new) favourites ensuring some interesting manoeuvring at the starts and round the early marks. Westerly conditions at Injebreck tend to be gusty, shifty and highly variable depending…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 4 February 2024
With Peter and Max Cope absent, allegedly 21st birthday partied out from the night before, the field was wide open for new challengers to reach for glory in the first 2 races of the Watling Streetworks February Series. The ferry was cancelled and the forecast said 25 knots gusting 42 Westerly from 1000 onwards, building…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 28 January 2024
Peter and Max Cope took the Kara Cup for the January Watling Streetworks Series at Injebreck in style with two bullets on a very windy Sunday at Injebreck on Sunday. Anyone who completed the course deserves props for guts and skills and mostly for repeated recovery from multiple capsizes of all modes. Click here for…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 14 January 2024
The MS&CC’s January Series at Injebreck continued on Sunday in brilliant sunshine again but this time with a cold and gusty Northerly wind that proved very challenging for all the competitors. The usual gathering at the gate expressed serious doubts as to whether it was fit to go as we observed the black line gusts…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 7 January 2024
The MS&CC’s final festive fling took place on 7th January at Injebreck in brilliant sunshine and with a light mostly North-Easterly breeze, quite a contrast to last year’s wet and windy (but warmer) weather. 8 boats turned out on a forecast of around 5 knots of breeze from the East expecting to find it flat…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – Dec 24, 26 and 31 2023
A forecast of rain, 25 knot Westerlies, gusting to 40 knots and increasing did not encourage a huge fleet to make the early start at Injebreck on Christmas Eve but eight boats launched to face the weather and work out how the shifts and gusts could be employed to their advantage while staying in control…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 10 December 2023
Write up by Jerry Colman A forecast of light southerlies increasing rapidly to strong, gusty south-easterlies with heavy rain was not the ideal prelude to the first two races of the December series (no wind last weekend) but a hardy fleet of 10 dinghies started rigging operations in the moderate conditions before the 1000 start.…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 26 November 2023
Write up by Jerry Colman A light to non-existent generally southerly zephyr seasoned with a little ice cold drizzle greeted the slightly reduced fleet of 10 dinghies at Injebreck on Sunday morning for the last two races of the November Series. The battle to find a little more breeze than the rest was engaged from…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 19 November 2023
Fortunately too much rain didn’t make the course any wetter for the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Series up at West Baldwin Reservoir. Sadly the first two rounds of the November Series have already been lost, too little wind and too much wind! As mentioned the weather was on the damp side and initially a bit on…
Australian Tubeworms in Isle of Man Harbours
As many of you will be aware this is an invasive species that has recently been found in Manx waters. Please read the notice from IOM Harbours at this link for more information – IOM Harbours and Tubeworms
