It is only just over one week until the 2008 Isle of Man Dinghy Championships hosted this year by the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club. This years racing takes place on the weekend of the 30th and 31st of August and will consist of three races held back to back on each day starting at 11.00am.

The dinghy champs always deliver some close and competitive racing, last years winners Russell and June Collister are on a 6th year winning streak and will be looking to make it number 7, but the racing at the dinghy championships is always a close contest and there are likely to be a quite a few boats vying for the top spot. Others to look out for include the National 18’s of Mick Kneale and Pete Barlow, the Ramsey based 200’s of Andrew Dean and Angus Jolly (although he may not be sailing) the ever present Dave Batchelor in his National 12 and the whole of the competitive Laser fleet, their may even be a couple of RS400’s out and about! Younger contenders to look out for include Youth Championship winners Joe and Kate Stockman and Laser sailors Ali Hinds and Ben Swindlehurst.

Take a look at the MSR archives for coverage and photos of last years event, the sailing instructions for this year are available below.

If you have any questions or require further information please contact MSR in the first instance.

2008 Dinghy Champs SI

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 8:59 pm and is filed under Forthcoming Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.