Cork’s Adam D’Arcy has beaten 132 competitors from France, Great Britain, India, Japan, Malta, and South Africa to claim Silver at the International Topper Sailing World Championships in Pwllheli, Wales.

One of the best TV drama series of the Seventies featured the adventures of James Onedin (a brilliant Peter Gilmore), a cunning shipping master operating in the cut-throat world where business rivalry onshore and occasional mutiny onboard left poor old James at his wit’s end — but not for long.