Dinghy Reports
Due to the weather forecast for Saturday it has been decided to postpone the Regatta to Sunday with a 14.00 start time. Hopefully this won’t disrupt too many plans but the strong easterly wind means that it will be extremely difficult for competitors to launch off the beach!!
After the usual mix of weather over the winter on Injebreck it will be nice to return to the sea and the start of the MS&CC Summer sailing programme. We hope to see as many competitors as possible in Ramsey Bay on Saturday 19 April to open our season with the IOM Copiers Easter Regatta.
This is a One Day Event with three races to be held “back to back”, with racing starting at 13.30 and expected to be fully completed at 16:00 – IOM Copiers Easter Regatta 2025-Sailing Instructions.
There will be a Prize Presentation directly afterwards which will be followed by a complimentary Regatta Tea for all competitors, race officials, family, friends and social members.
As this event is part of the ‘Traveller Series’ it’s hoped that this Regatta will be fully supported. Competitors of all ages and capabilities are welcome! Please contact Ralph Kee, Dinghy Captain on 490704 or helen.j.kee@gmail.com for further details or check out our Facebook page.
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 race testing the survival skills of competitors and the second almost idyllic, with the odd puff now and then – naturally. The sun did shine throughout though.
Nine crews lined up for the first race, not long after the start the gusts joined together lending to a few tactical retreats. the remaining fleet of five consisted of three juniors and two seniors. Click her for the full report – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 30 March 2025
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 way down the reservoir which promptly reduced the count to nine making it onto the water. For the full report click here – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 23 March 2025
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 Baldwin valley.
The first race started ok but it soon turned into a stop start affair that eventually split the fleet into two groups. If you were in the second group there was no escape and no chance of ‘leaping the gap’.
Follow this link for the full report – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 16 March 2025
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 gusts and deadly calms. With the wind, the ‘wrong way’ the Race Officer set a ‘wrong way’ course, marks to starboard (right hand side) rather than the usual port (left hand side). To add to the extraordinary, only the small course using the top half of the lake, only adding to the sense of crowding of a massive fleet. Click her for the full report – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 9 March 2025
