Watling Streetworks Winter Series

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 2 February 2025

Another Sunday morning in the Baldwin Valley that missed the winter gales that the rest of the Island were experiencing. I’d like to say the sun was shining too for the first of the February Watling Streetworks Series of dinghy racing but it did at least stop raining for a great fleet of 15 boats. The wind blowing mostly up the valley allowed the Race Officer to set a square course, windward/leeward and t...

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...

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 ...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 19 January 2025

A grey day at Injebreck Storm Eowyn warnings for the end of this week, but conditions could not have been more different for dinghy racing on West Baldwin reservoir last Sunday morning. The gentle south easterly wind blew mostly up the lake, the odd waft here and there, difficult to call then gusts and of course the usual deadly hollows. The fleet of thirteen started Race one and quickly sorted themselves...

Watling Streetworks Winter Series - 15 December 2024

Write-up by Jerry Colman A fresh Westerly, seasoned with a little cool rain greeted the slightly reduced fleet at Injebreck on Sunday morning for the second of the December Series. Storm Darragh had seen to the previous weekend’s proceedings with some outrageous gusts, enough to uproot the patrol boat (Hilary) and dump her upside down at the top of the spillway, as well as sadly damaging some of the d...

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 Colman (Finn), George Pearce (RS Tera Sport) and Bob Love and Jason Hyatt (both Laser Radials), who seemed to enjoy the challenging conditions. The wind arrived in medium gusts from every direction, not always easy to see from the water surface’s appearance. Please click here for the full report – Watling Streetworks Winter Series – 16 February 2025