Why go to Lapland when you can have a merry old time at Winterval, asks Tommy Barker

With an affordable guide price, Tommy Barker says this 200-year-old property has kept a watchful eye on passing ships, including Titanic

THERE was no doubt it was November as Jack Frost appeared for the first race of the CH Marine winter league at RCYC.

At Bayview House Tommy Barker finds a harbour hillside property that brightly lives up to promise of the site’s prospect — exceptional.

MORE than 1,000 sailors took to the water at Crosshaven on a mild and sunny autumn weekend, three-quarters of them competing in the opening session of the O’Flynn Exhams Autumn League Series from the RCYC.

THE HM Yachts Autumn series continued at RCYC. In a brisk north westerly breeze Race Officer Roy Hanan (Plumbat) and his team opted for course 74.

COBH is noted for the finery of its Victoria architecture and intact terraces, but not everything in the Cork harbour town dates to the mid-1800s.

A GRAND total of 85 boats turned out for the opening race of the C.H. Marine Autumn League at the Royal Cork YC in Crosshaven where the skippers and crews just could not have had it any better.

GLORIOUS autumnal conditions favoured the Royal Cork Offshore Day and, in a light to moderate south easterly breeze Class One sailed around the Cork Buoy, down to the Bullman Buoy off Kinsale and back to the finish at Roches Point.