News
All the news that’s fit to print
IOM Copiers Easter Regatta – Saturday 30 March
After the usual mix of weather over the winter on Injebreck it will be nice to return to the sea and the start of the MS&CC Summer sailing programme. We hope to see as many competitors as possible in Ramsey Bay on Saturday 30 March to open our season with the IOM Copiers Easter Regatta.…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 3 March 2024
Write up by Andrew Dean A glassy lack of breeze greeted the 11 strong fleet at Injebreck reservoir, with a few absences of the young hot shots, away training and attending college. Therefore the fleet collectively decided to delay rigging, and patience was duly rewarded when a gentle southerly breeze filled in, and racing started…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 25 February 2024
A drop in temperature, ice on the boat covers and a forecast of moderate Easterlies did not prevent a strong fleet of 13 boats from turning up to complete the February Series. Those with some experience at Injebreck knew that Carraghan and the other hills around the lake would split the wind, bounce it back…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 18 February 2024
Another forecast of 8 to 10 knots maybe gusting 11 or 12 West with sunshine was not enough to deter some of our regulars from hopping off the Island to go sliding down mountains on planks but the fleet of 10 boats who stuck with it were rewarded with a pretty balmy morning (after the…
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…
