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Clear Drain Services Ramsey to Laxey Race
Manx Sailing & Cruising Club will be holding the Clear Drain Services coastal feeder dinghy race from Ramsey to Laxey on Saturday 1 August. A ‘Le Mans’ type start at 10.30am from the beach outside the Club House. Keeping the Island mostly to starboard finishing at Laxey between a buoy in the bay and…
S Craig & Sons MS&CC Dinghy Regatta
Manx Sailing & Cruising Club held their summer Regatta sponsored by S. Craig & Sons over the bank holiday weekend. The racing scheduled for the Saturday was cancelled, but only after several boats had made the long and ever increasingly fast run downwind to the Committee Boat. With the wind now blowing 25 knots and…
S Craig & Sons MS&CC Dinghy Regatta 2015
Our 2015 sailing season continues with the S. Craig & Sons Dinghy Regatta being held at the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club in Ramsey on Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July. This is a two day event with three races to be held “back to back” each day, racing starts at 11:30 on Saturday and…
Tekmos Round the Island Race 2015
Write-up by James Penn. It was a fifth IRC division win for Jerry Colman in Sea Pie of Cultra in the Manx Sailing & Crusing Club’s 60th Round The Island Race over the bank holiday, sponsored by Tekmos of Gladstone Park, Ramsey. It was also an overall win on adjusted time for Sea Pie for…
Dinghy Sailing – 19 April 2015
A good day in the Bay to start with, but a dying breeze made race one a bit of a long affair lasting over an hour for some, Race Officer Keith Poole almost called it a day but some of the collected competitors said they were keen to carry on (some not so interested, but…
IOM Copiers Easter Regatta – Race Report
Beautiful sunshine graced Ramsey Bay for the IOM Copiers Easter Regatta hosted by Manx Sailing & Cruising Club on Saturday. A fine turnout of 28 competitors together with a light but steady breeze set the scene for some excellent and very close racing within the mixed fleet including 6 Teras (juniors) and 9 Lasers (various).…
IOM Copiers Easter Regatta 2015
The first Regatta of the 2015 sailing season begins with the IOM Copiers Easter Regatta being held at the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club in Ramsey on Saturday 3 April. This is a One Day Event with three races to be held “back to back”, with racing starting at 11:00 and expected to be fully…
Bourne Plaice Winter Series – 29 March 2015
The final race of the Bourne Plaice Winter Series on Injebreck reservoir was held on Sunday following a slightly different format than usual. Each competitor was allocated their own secret handicap which the race officer based on the results from all of the races sailed this winter, as opposed to those provided by the RYA.…
Bourne Plaice Winter Series – 22 March 2015
Report by Jerry Colman 19 boats competed on a beautiful Sunday morning at Injebreck in the final weekend of the March dinghy racing series sponsored by Bourne Plaice. There was a little more wind than many had expected with lightish breezes forecast, however a pleasant and unusually steady breeze of around 10 knots presented itself…
Bourne Plaice Winter Series – 15 March 2015
Write up by Mike Pridham Mothers Day at Baldwin Reservoir didn’t initially look very promising for the latest races in the Bourne Plaice Winter Series. The 16 crews getting out of their nice warm cars were faced with ice on (and in) any boats which hadn’t drained entirely, and there were completely windless patches across…
