RACE 3 of the CH Marine Winter League at RCYC got underway on a misty morning, with a light southerly breeze in stark contrast to last week’s heavy winds.

IT may not have been Dylan Thomas’ “mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore” but the view from the windows at Deasy’s Seafood Bar in Ring, outside Clonakilty, Co Cork, is as captivating as I imagine the shoreline that shaped the Welshman’s sublime Poem in October must have been.