Chancer denied overall victory by X-Dream

CONDITIONS were quite horrible for the final race of the PC Scaffold May Mid Week league at Kinsale, southerly winds of 20 knots gusting, a big swell, poor visibility and rain-like needles to compound the misery.

It was a repeat of the previous week as the fleets headed out to Hake Head on a difficult beat. MacMagic was over at the start line but despite having to go back and restart they were still first around the weather mark. Then the fleet had a roller coaster spinnaker ride against a now falling tide with gains made by keeping close to Moneypoint.

The Carroll brothers on Chancer won both IRC and Echo on the day with Tom Roche’s Isobar second in both handicaps and the Riordan-Murphy pair on X-Dream third. But they had the last laugh as X-Dream took the overall in both divisions with Chancer second and Isobar third.