• Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 March 2025

    Reflections don't make for exciting sailing! For the latest round of the Watling Streetworks Winter Series, there was little wind in the forecast and what was expected would be from the East. That side is protected by the ridge that separates East and West Baldwin with some, possibly, catabatic wind with the cooler air rolling down from Carraghan so it was patchy and mostly from Northerly direction down the West...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 23 March 2025

    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...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 30 March 2025

    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...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 9 February 2025

    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...
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  • Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 16 February 2025

    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 ...
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RTI Race Report 2017

The fleet heading to the Point of Ayre

The fleet heading to the Point of Ayre

Jerry Colman won the Ramsey Town Cup for a seventh time on Sunday in the 63rd IOM Copiers Round The Island Race, run by the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club.

Colman in his Sigma 33, Sea Pie of Cultra narrowly fended off the challenge of the Sydney 36, Tan-it, skippered by James Walker, by a mere two minutes on adjusted time. Tan-it crossed the line first on elapsed time at 3.15pm, with Sea Pie coming in an hour later.  Click here for the full write-up – IOM Copiers Round the Island Race 2017.