Sales to catch the eye

WITH Ford Week getting the wind in its sails and with millionaires bobbing about ten a penny in and around Cork harbour, house vendors locally hope to switch sails to sales.

Hitting the property market this week is a fleet of harbour homes priced from under 500,000 to 2 million.

Even these property prices pale when compared to the value of some of the boats at the world class sailing event Ford Week: many sleek racing craft are in the 1 to 2 million league, and among those who have taken past in recent years is Co Cork resident Roy Disney's Pyewacker, worth 5 or 6 million. This year's Cork fleet of 550 boats and some 5,000 visitors has a total value of around 100 million.