The sun did eventually make an appearance Write-up by Jerry Colman Sunday morning’s races were started in a cold, grey and gusty Nor’Easterly. A fine fleet of 16 boats shepherded by Peter Hoosen-Owen and Kat Osbourn in our patrol boat ‘Hilary’ braved the conditions and if they worked hard enough were suitably rewarded.  Anyone who completed the course deserves props for guts and skills and for some for re...

Report by Andrew Dean The weather forecast unsurprisingly reduced the fleet form last week’s 16 to just 4, although your correspondent might have competed had he not lost an argument with a drill.  With winds in excess of 20 knots in the Irish Sea, with a direction of just south of east, giving it a miss seemed sensible. A temperature of 3 degrees added to the unpleasantness. But this did not deter Jerry ...

Dave Batchelor, winner of the March Series with Will Osbourn in hot pursuit There have been light winds and very strong winds for the March Series of dinghy racing on West Baldwin reservoir.  But for the final racing of the Watling Streetworks 2024-25 Winter Series there was both sorts of wind.  Normally this would be in the usual strong gusts and vicious calms. Not so on Sunday morning, the first...

Will Osbourn enjoying the conditions As with the previous last two weekends the wind was from the north on Sunday, blowing down the West Baldwin valley, the difference being, nature turned up the volume. For this round of the Watling Streetworks Winter Series there were enough competitors shoreside to have fleets of equal numbers from the two previous weeks.  A few particularly strong gusts made their...

Great view from the start line Nothing like a good forecast to bring out the crowd and in the bright sunshine of the Baldwin valley 16 crews competed for the final month of racing for the Watling Streetworks Dinghy Series.  This included full turnouts from both Peel and Laxey! Unlike the previous Sunday, cancelled, there was wind and unusually it was blowing mostly down the valley with the usual light...