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 repeated recoveries from multiple capsizes of all modes. 

When your correspondent left Ramsey at around 0830 to prepare for the race the surf was roaring in Ramsey Bay so any dinghy sailing seemed a remote prospect. However, it’s never what you expect at Injebreck so on arrival at the dinghy park at around 0900 it looked manageable, if cold although with some quite strong gusts. Hoisting the sails resulted in some increasingly loud sail flapping in the gusts and for some of us a concern that it could be a bit much. But once the sails are up you gotta go and so it was. The full write-up can be found here – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 9 February 2025