Patches eases into five points lead

WHILE the TP52 Patches owned by Galway’s Eamon Conneely and steered by Shirley Robertson has eased into a five points lead in IRC Class Zero at the Sovereign’s Cup and the Irish Cruisers Championships off Kinsale, the Cork-Dublin Bay battle in Class 1 looks set to go to the wire.

After winning on the water yesterday, with only one race completed as the light breeze faltered, Voodoo Chile, the Ker 32 drew level on points with Antix, Anthony O’Leary’s Corby 35. With up to three races planned today, there is everything to play for.

“We had a good race and got away well on the start and then managed to pull away well on the run. At one point we had Antix at four minutes behind, but the breeze died and became much more patchy, and they caught up to about a minute and thirty behind but we won on the water,” recalled Eamon Crosbie, Voodoo Chile’s owner and helm.