Entries are now open for this year’s World Tin Bath Championships, to be held from 2.30pm on July 6 at Castletown middle harbour.

Contact Dave Collister, 49 Malew Street, Castletown, IM9 1AE, phone 823996 or 341852 or [email protected]; Boris Kitching, 7a Smetana Close, Castletown, IM9 1ER, phone 481359; search ’2019 World Tin Bath Championships’; or ask any member of the Castletown Ale Drinkers.

Entry forms for the snake races are also available and limitgd to the first 24; similarly for the man powered flight class, but these are limited to the first six.

Some baths are available to borrow thanks to a donation from Pokerstars.