Watling Streetworks Winter Series

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 7 December 2025

Write up by Jerry Colman A forecast of increasingly strong Southeasterly winds and heavy rain in the Irish Sea did not deter the fleet at Injebreck on Sunday where 12 dinghies raced in the December Series. On arrival it seemed that again Injebreck had not been listening to the forecast with light and very shifty breezes, calm spots all over the lake and a welcome absence of precipitation. These conditions were...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 23 November 2025

Write-up by Jerry Colman Tom Watterson sailing an RS Aero 7 took the November Series of the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Racing event at Injebreck on Sunday. Although finishing on equal points (12) with Dave Batchelor sailing a similar boat, Tom mustered two 1sts and three 2nds in the 8 race series while Batch made 2 wins but just the two 2nds, thereby conceding this very close-run series.On the day, Tom managed a...

Watling Streetworks Winter Dinghy Series 2025 - 2026

Manx Sailing & Cruising Club are pleased to announce that once again Manx Utilities are allowing us to use West Baldwin Reservoir to hold our Winter Dinghy Series. Weather permitting the first race of the 'Watling Streetworks Winter Series' will be on Sunday 2 November and every Sunday morning starting at 10.00am through to Sunday 29 March 2025. Injebreck - Sailing Instructions 2025...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 14 December 2025

Write up by Jerry Colman Attendance at the dinghy park at Injebreck on Sunday morning was a bit thinner than usual as might have been expected with a forecast windspeed of 30 knots and gusting over 40 from the South with rain. However, it didn’t look too bad on the water before the start although your correspondent did mention to Dave Batchelor (Supernova) that it looked a bit worse at the top of the lake when d...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 30 November 2025

Write up by Jerry Colman A forecast of strong winds in the Irish Sea did not apply at Injebreck on Sunday where wisps and catspaws greeted the 12 boats in brilliant sunshine and some perfect reflections of Carraghan in the water. This didn’t look good for sailing but as we watched, a light breeze filled in from the North West tempting the fleet to get rigged up. Much interest was shown in Dave Batchelor’s ...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 2 November 2025

Write up by Jerry Colman

Sunday morning saw the beginning of the MS&CC’s winter dinghy races on the reservoir at Injebreck. A fine fleet of 16 boats shepherded by Ralph Kee and Huw Bevan in our patrol boat ‘Hilary’ made it for the 10.00 start time, an excellent turn out.The enthusiasm may have been helped by some rather pleasant late October weather including balmy conditions at Injebreck on the preceding Saturday, while the boats were being brought up. I suspect a renewed joy in the sailing experience in view of Manx sailor Peter Cope’s victory in the UK Waszp National Championships on Oct 26^th, so he now stands as both UK and French national champion, an incredible achievement. Click here for the full write-upWatling Streetworks Winter Series – 2 November 2025