Weather can’t spoil spectacular finale

With few changes in Thursday’s overnight standings, Cork Week closed at Crosshaven last night after a spectacular 100-boat race off Roche’s Point and briefly around the inner harbour.

Weather can’t spoil spectacular finale

Winds did their utmost to disrupt the racing schedule for a second consecutive day, this time by threatening to die off completely.

It was a day for careful tactics and local knowledge, although that didn’t help Conor Phelan’s Jump Juice from the Royal Cork Yacht Club, who placed eighth in class one and discarded the result but still left Richard Fildes’ Welsh entry Impetuous with local talent Maurice ‘Prof’ O’Connell to secure the overall win for the class.

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