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Watling Streetworks Dinghy Regatta
With an uncertain forecast for the Sunday afternoon the Race Officer decided to run the ‘Ramsey Regatta’ over just one day. The programme was changed to include an extra race (so best of four) resulting in James Bishop winning with Ralph Kee second and Andrew Dean third. For those that didn’t participate you missed a treat and…
Watling Streetworks Dinghy Regatta – 18 & 19 June
Manx Sailing & Cruising Club are hosting the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Regatta on Saturday 18 June, start time 13.00 and Sunday 19 June, start time 13.30. Sailing instructions for the event can be found at this link – MS&CC Regatta 2022 – Sailing Instructions I’m sure the competitors will be pleased to hear that there…
IOM Copiers Easter Regatta
First Regatta on the sea for 2022, last year this event was delayed because of ‘Lockdown 3.0’ so it was held on its traditional Easter Saturday, the day started out promising enough with a steady 10 – 12 knot SE breeze but as is the way of the weather this changed just before the start,…
IOM Copiers Easter Regatta 2022 – Saturday 16 April
After a mixed bag 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 16 April to open our season with the IOM Copiers Easter Regatta.…
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…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 6 March 2022
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…
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…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 13 February 2022
Report by Andrew Dean Despite there being force 5 or 6 winds gusting 7 in the Irish Sea, there were reasonable conditions at the West Baldwin reservoir when the fleet arrived to rig the dinghies on Sunday. The first of two races the wind was a moderate southerly with a few gusts from the southeast…
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…
Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 16 January 2022
Write-up by Keith Poole There were a good number of sailors in attendance ready for races Five and Six of the January Series for the ‘Shipyard Trophy’, part of the Watling Streetworks Dinghy series on West Baldwin reservoir. Enthusiasm was initially high but soon the dark patches on the water showing where the gusts were…
