Drifting on Boxing Day

The Manx Sailing & Cruising Club Frostbite Regatta took place on Boxing Day with a fleet of 16 boats (17 if you include Hilary the patrol boat with Andy Dunn and May Shiu Chan) who took to the water under brilliant blue skies and with a mostly light, allegedly Easterly breeze. Traditionally this is a pursuit race where boats are started at times related to their speed handicaps so that if they were sailed to those handicaps they would all finish level at a fixed time, 1200 hrs in this case. So the slowest boats, the RS Teras sailed by juniors Jake Walker and Charlie Watterson started first at 1100 followed at irregular intervals by James Walker in the Streaker, various Lasers, the Whiteleggs in the Enterprise then at 1116 the rest including Dave Batchelor’s Supernova, the RS Aero 7s of Simon Cain, Tom Watterson, Will Osbourn and Teddy Dunn and your correspondent in the Finn. Click here for the full report