Tidewinder of Ramsey
Tidewinder of RamseyTidewinder is a Southerly 115, Series III, constructed by Northshore Yachts at Itchenor, Chichester. As Northshore's display boat, she appeared at the Southampton Boat show in 1997 - as well as at boat shows in Holland. She is registered as a British Ship by the Isle of Man Department of Marine Administration, and as such wears the British Red Ensign, defaced with the Manx Three Leg symbol.
Ramsey: Our Port of Registry
Tidewinder is active in the Irish Sea cruising area, eastern Irish Seaboard and the West Coast of Scotland - so watch out for us in any of the Irish Sea harbours - and especially favourites like Whitehaven and Bangor. If you're about in Ramsey where we berth in summer pr Douglas where we berth in the inner harbour marina during winter months, do say "hello".
Although we no longer maintain a full log on this web site, you can see below details of some of our cruising between 1998 and 2001. If you want to make contact - or would like advice about almost any harbour in the North Irish Sea or Clyde areas, please email us mail@tidewinder.org.
2001
2001 Season
An early start to the season with a frostbite trip to Whitehaven was followed by
a miserable early spring and little activity possible before Easter.
Summer
Cruise
Since the Forth-Clyde canal
had been restored to navigation in May this year, we decided to use the new
route and make circumnavigate central Scotland.
2000
2000 Season
A Happy New Millennium (yes we know it doesn't really start till 1/1/2001, but
so what! - and we even sailed (just) on the first day of the New Millennium!
Summer
Cruise
With Lifeboat
Day out of the way, and over a month later than originally planned, we set
off towards the Caledonian Canal and the Dolphins in the Inverness Firth.
1999
1999
Season
After the poor season of 1998, we welcome the much more settled conditions
of 1999
1999
Summer Cruise
A late start due to commitments at Ramsey Lifeboat day, saw us heading back
towards the SW of Ireland - abandoned in favour a time on the Isle of Man back in
1997. We still only got as far as Arklow - but had a great time visiting
the whole of the East Coast of Ireland - right up to Ballycastle and Rathlin
Island.
RNLI
Seacheck
Tidewinder won a Seacheck Offshore Gold Award following Peter Hodge's
inspection of her safety gear.
1998
Picture Gallery A general selection of pictures - inside and out .
The
Journey Home
Our journey home bringing Tidewinder to
Douglas, Isle Of Man from Northshore's yard at
Itchenor near Chichester in West Sussex represented the longest passage we had undertaken
- by far - and involved passing some of the most notorious headlands in Britain - like
Portland Bill and Lands End.
Summer
Tour 1998
Our summer holiday plans were to have a
relaxing trip through the Scottish Canals - so long as we could get there!