The Ramsey Shipping Services Round the Island Race 2025 - Programme

The 2025 Ramsey Shipping Services Round the Island Race will start in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man on SUNDAY 6th July at 08.00 BST, HW is at 08.30 BST. The Round the Island Yacht Race is run annually by the Manx Sailing and Cruising Club in Ramsey, Isle of Man and we would like to thank Kuba Szymanski of Ramsey Shipping Services for agreeing to sponsor the 2025 event. Please visit the 'Round the Island 2025'...

MS&CC Dinghy Regatta 2025 - 14 & 15 June

Manx Sailing & Cruising Club are holding their Dinghy Regatta on Saturday 14 June, start time 12.00 and Sunday 15 June, start time 12.30. Sailing instructions for the event can be found at this link - MS&CC Regatta 2025 - Sailing Instructions. The sailing on Sunday will be followed by a Prizegiving and Regatta Tea for all competitors and volunteers at around 4pm.

The Ramsey Shipping Services Round the Island 2025

Sea-Pie and her winning crew In arduous, windy and certainly very fast conditions, Sea-Pie of Cultra took all the honours in the 73rd Manx Sailing & Cruising Club’s Round the Island Race last Sunday. With its eight-man crew skippered by Ed Pearce and assisted by Iain Fenna, Sea-Pie arrived back in Ramsey just after 6pm having averaged 6.5 knots - just 10 hours and eight minutes after s...

Ramsey to Laxey Coastal Race - Saturday 26 July

The Ramsey to Laxey dinghy race is a challenge not for the faint hearted! The race for the Green Cup is a coastal race with spectacular scenery if you have time to look! Hosted by MS&CC the Le Mans type beach start is at 11:00 on Saturday 26 July. Starting on Ramsey Beach by the Clubhouse, feet to be on terraferma until start signal, start sequence is 3,2, start. Look out for the finish mark in...

Ramsey to Laxey Coastal Race

The sun did come out!! Write up by Keith Poole. The nice weather encouraged a starting line up of 15 boats, including two catamaran's, for what turned out to be fairly brisk trip down to Laxey. This trip is not for the faint hearted as it can turn into a bit of a battle after Maughold Head. However, on this occasion the wind held (almost) and the sun came out for what turned out to be a great sail to...

Training 2025

RYA Junior and Adult ‘Learn to Sail’ returns to MS&CC in 2025. We plan to run RYA dinghy training courses at the Club in a similar format to last year, that is in 2 courses of 6 evening sessions each on Mondays (under 16) and 2 courses on Wednesdays (generally adults), starting on Easter Monday. The first sessions will be:

Monday evenings 21 April to 26 May – 18.00 to 20.30 for junior students (age 10 to 16).

Wednesday evenings 23 April to 28 May – 18.00 to 20.30 for adults.

The second sessions will be from:

Monday evenings 9 June to 21 July – 18.00 to 20.30 for junior students (age 10 to 16).

Wednesday evenings 11 June to 23 July – 18.00 to 20.30 for adults.

The sessions will be run off the beach in front of the club using the RYA syllabuses for Levels or Stages 1 to 4 plus racing, spinnaker and trapeze training for those seeking to advance their skills and experience.

Junior Courses are £120 for each 6 week block.

Adult Courses are £195 for non-members for each 6 week block or £145 for members. These can be paid for via the ‘MS&CC Store’ tab on this website or by using the QR Code below.

In addition to the above dates we will also be running weekend courses on the following dates. These are for trainees who are unable to commit to a six week run of dates.

Saturday 26/Sunday 27 April – Level 1 Weekend Course

Saturday 21/Sunday 22 June – Syllabus to be advised

Saturday 20/Sunday 21 September – Syllabus to be advised

For more information on the RYA go to https://www.rya.org.uk/start-boating

Please contact our Training Liaison Officer for further information –

Bob Love isleofmanbob@gmail.com

To book onto a course please use the link below:

RYA Course Booking Form 2025 and direct payment QR code below for the Dinghy Courses: