• Round the Island 2024

    Hopefully more wind on Saturday but a great picture! The Ellan Vannin Maritime Centre Round the Island Race 2024 The 2024 Ellan Vannin Maritime Centre Round the Island Race will start in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man on SATURDAY 6th July at 11.00 BST, HW is at 12.16 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...
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  • MS&CC Dinghy Regatta 2024 - 22 & 23 June

    Manx Sailing & Cruising Club are holding their Dinghy Regatta on Saturday 22 June, start time 10.30 and Sunday 23 June, start time 11.00. Sailing instructions for the event can be found at this link - MS&CC Regatta 2024 - Sailing Instructions The sailing on Sunday will be followed by a Prizegiving and Regatta Tea for all competitors and volunteers at around 3pm.
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  • IOM Copiers Easter Regatta 2024

    Start line with Peter Cope in the Waspz next to eventual winner Simon Pressly IOM Copiers Easter Regatta took place in Ramsey Bay hosted by Manx Sailing & Cruising Club.  As usual, the sun was shining with a brisk southerly breeze which may have been a little too much for some, but no worries for those who kept up the practice at West Baldwin during the winter. The fleet was mixed with the extremes...
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  • MS&CC Dinghy Regatta 2024

    Fleet strung out across Ramsey Bay Write up by Jerry Colman, Commodore 22 boats from all round the Island gathered over the glorious weekend of 22 & 23 June to compete for the MS&CC’s Daily Mirror Trophy which is presented to the winning boat over a series of 6 races. Old salts may recall that the Daily Mirror supported the design and marketing of the ubiquitous Mirror Dinghy designed by Barry B...
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Cruising

Cruising Captains Report 2009

With a lift-in as early as 27 March we hoped to get plenty of practice in for the Round the Island Race but the usual sequence of calms and gales prevented any action until the Mayday weekend when the MS&CC squadron of Fenna, Eliza Bee, Jemima and Sea-Pie was faced with a 30 strong fleet from Douglas and Peel (not Port St

Sea-Pie at West Highland Week

Sea-Pie at West Highland Week

Mary), England and Ireland. It turned out to be a good day for our boys with sea-Pie winning division 1 and Eliza Bee (defdending the Coronation Cup) taking 2nd in Class. However we could not quite match the results from Glasson Sailing club who took the Isle of Man Times Squadron Trophy for the first time ever. Its always good to see an English or Irish club doing well here and long may they keep coming back to compete but more practice for our fleet will be laid on before next year’s race!.

The race marks went out in May and were paraded around by Sea-pie, Jemima and Eliza Bee when the weather permitted until October. Well done Eliza Bee for taking the Summer and Autumn series while Sea-Pie sneaked through to take the Spring series. Unfortunately we did not quite seem to reach the critical mass required to send a fleet out at every opportunity whatever the weather. A few more rough, tough racing yachters are wanted to keep racing going in Ramsey Bay then. These would also go down well with the Ladies Training crew who enjoyed a very pleasant couple of evenings or afternoons cruising around the Bay on Sea-Pie (with the assistance of a bit of muscle up on the foredeck). We will be continuing with the curriculum for this program next year by popular request. Quite a few members – Don Edwards and Phil Hardisty for instance, sailed on other yachts with success and Ed the commodore elect completed another Fastnet on the Humphreys 35 ft one design White Knight of Wessex, coming in just less than 100 places in front of the Douglas boat Cheetah Cub.

On the cruising side, we saw Manx Jig off in April heading for the Med via a Force 10/11 off Finisterre – read the log in the sailing club. They made it through with the help of several of the lifeboat crew moonlighting on board and are now happily parked out in the wine dark Aegean.

The old Millenium BVI bunch of Deans, Colmans, Wilsons and Packards went for a Sunsail cruise on a 43 ft catamaran in the St Vincent and Grenadines area (log will soon be released) and discovered the delights of swimming with turtles, winding up the rig on the cat to make it go 0.13 knots faster (racing effect cannot be erased) inventing new versions of painkillers, mending stubbed toes, catching skipjacks (not allowed to hit with the winch handle – had to put them back in) spotting flying fish and chasing dolphins.

Away racing, Sea-Pie went to West Highland Week and the crew of May and Prof, Ralph Kee, James Bishop Adam Beighton and Jerry Colman made 2nd in class and first Sigma 33 in a fabulous week with at least 20 knots every day, lots of sun and the usual quiet social round. Sea-Pie might well go back again next year.