Kinsale provides respite for Irish sailing season

While the opening regattas of the main Irish sailing season have proven to be robust affairs, it fell to Kinsale and the opening races of the O’Leary Life Sovereigns Cup to provide some respite yesterday.

Light winds and sunshine delivered a full racing programme, mostly incident-free and certainly without the drama of recent weeks.

A turnout of 98 boats from around Ireland and further afield is close enough to the supposed maximum capacity for the event and three more than the organisers’ goal of 95 entries.