British teams dominate at Schull

IRISH hopes of victory on home waters were dashed over the weekend as Britain’s first teams in the open and youth events of the ISAF World Team Racing Championships at Schull emerged overall winners.

West Kirby Sailing Club on Merseyside sent two teams to compete and both were able winners at the end of a marathon series in which the race management team staged more than 300 races in just four days.

The senior West Kirby squad moved into the joint lead with the USA 1 team from the New York Yacht Club on a finely balanced performance of 90 per cent race wins apiece after the three round robin series. That duel continued into the final where the British were in top form and won in a near rout with three race wins to one.