Mansfield delivers speedy performance to win IRC handicap

OLYMPIC sailor Mark Mansfield burst into the Glaxo SmithKline winter series at the Royal Cork YC and showed a clean stern to the twenty-three boat fleet in the second race of the event.

On board Shane Murphy’s Dinghy Supplies, he was exceptionally fast on the off wind legs and was a clear winner of the IRC handicap. But the ever consistent Donal O’Leary’s D-Tex was right up there in second place while Scora Commodore Jim Donegan showed his form with third on Mischief.

Echo handicap was a different matter and the issue was so tight that only 90 seconds separated the first four boats. Charles Pritchard on Lorelie obviously enjoyed the fresh conditions and had 17 seconds win over Derry Good on Genevieve. However, Aidan Heffernan on Argus again demonstrated his staying power with a third.