Category: IOM

Sunday May 13 was Day 4 of the all class Handicap racing at Whitby.  Four skippers turned up with their boats.  There was virtually no wind on the lake until the last race which made racing challenging and very slow.  All races were one lap of the course and even then each race was close to 45 minutes resulting in […]

Sunday May 6 event was an IOM Autumn Regatta and staged at Seaview Marina, it was a very good day’s sailing, despite tough conditions. Rig changes and running repairs caused a few delays. A rare day where A-rig and B-rig were fairly evenly matched–it was never totally obvious which was the best rig for the conditions. Those with A-rig prospered in […]

Sunday’s event was Day 4 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing and was held at Whitby Lake. The conditions were NOT to everyone’s liking—sunny, warm with a very, very light southerly to start with, which changed early in the racing to the north, which, once again was very light. The lack of wind had most of the skippers guessing, […]

Sunday April 8 we staged Day 3 of the Summer Series All Class Handicap, and it was a real disappointment. It started out with 5 skippers, but very rapidly decreased to 3–Russell has got his replacement winch—and apparently it was working OK at home but decided to quit during rigging up. Darrell did the unthinkable,  got to the stage of […]

Sunday’s event was Day 3  of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing and was held at the Seaview Marina. 6 skippers arrived, to be greeted by a warm northerly gusting from about 9 kts upwards.   The lulls where quite long and great for the A rig but some of the gusts tended to be a bit much sometimes,  but […]

Sunday March 18 we staged the re-scheduled Day 2 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing. The event was held at the Seaview Marina with a very summery day in attendance. On arrival the breeze was  a light southerly and rather ‘fresh,’ by race start time it had increased in intensity, to the degree that a few of the skippers […]