Flying Glove gives Irish major boost with Cowes victory

WITH a pair of first places from two starts at Skandia Cowes Week, Dublin’s Colm Barrington’s Ker 39 Flying Glove is the best of the Irish entries so far at the massive annual regatta on the Solent.

Barrington and his crew are already comfortable favourites to win IRC Class 1 at Cowes.

Yesterday they won by one and a half minutes, an exact repeat performance of Saturday. With a south-westerly arriving on cue for their start, the race was completed in just over two hours yesterday.