Garvey and Darrer grind out victory

WITH the nights getting shorter, racing started at 6.25pm at RCYC this week. Race officers Stephen and Rebecca O’Shaughnessy with Jonathan Horgan sent the fleets out into a light south-easterly breeze on Course 93 up to No 3, then a dead run back to Cage, before a reach down to No 12 and then a beat back to Corkbeg where the wind shadow of Ft Carlisle created a few problems rounding the mark.

While Class 1 managed to sneak in a round two, it was enough for the remainder just to make one round of the five-mile course. Finishing as the sun set and autumnal mists descended on the harbour was a nice end to the evening.

In IRC Class 1 it was Coleman Garvey and Martin Darrer’s True Pennance taking first, ahead of Frank Doyle’s Endgame with Ria Lyden’s Ellida taking third. In Echo, however, it was the two other X332s which came first and second, with Mary O’Keeffe’s Tux just ahead of Michael Wallace on Felix, with True Pennance third.