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.

In Class Two, the McCarthys on MacMagic won the race in both handicaps and also the series in both. Clem McElligott’s Sea Hawk was second in both handicaps in the race and also the league. In Class Three Mike Sexton’s Granny Knot won the race from Padraigh O’Donovan’s Chameleon in IRC and with it the overall, Chameleon being second. But in Echo the roles were reversed on the day and also in the overall.

Conditions were totally different for Kinsale’s Kist Boutique all in and white sail race at the weekend with warm sunshine and a southerly of ten knots.

The 16-strong fleet beat out the harbour to Centrepoint on an ebbing tide and on rounding reached across to the Sovereigns mark, Conor Doyle’s Freya led around both marks but Dave O’Connell on Canterbury and Tom Roche on Isobar were both on their heels.

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.

In Class Two, the McCarthys on MacMagic won the race in both handicaps and also the series in both. Clem McElligott’s Sea Hawk was second in both handicaps in the race and also the league. In Class Three Mike Sexton’s Granny Knot won the race from Padraigh O’Donovan’s Chameleon in IRC and with it the overall, Chameleon being second. But in Echo the roles were reversed on the day and also in the overall.

Conditions were totally different for Kinsale’s Kist Boutique all in and white sail race at the weekend with warm sunshine and a southerly of ten knots.

The 16-strong fleet beat out the harbour to Centrepoint on an ebbing tide and on rounding reached across to the Sovereigns mark, Conor Doyle’s Freya led around both marks but Dave O’Connell on Canterbury and Tom Roche on Isobar were both on their heels.

After rounding Bullman the fleet hoisted kites and worked against the tide, the crowds enjoying the sunshine at Charles Fort getting a great view of the fleet in the harbour.

Sea Hawk went on to win in IRC from Canterbury with Freya third. In Echo Alan Bateman’s Pathfinder won from Canterbury and Chameleon. The White Sail all in went to Abandon Office, with Stormcrow second.

The Miller Mid Week League concluded at the Royal Cork with a good fleet. Mike McCarthy on Checkmate won the race in IRC1 from Martin Darrer on Singing The Blues and third placed Ted Crosbie on Excuse Me. But the overall went to Aidan Heffernan’s Indulgence with Peter Donegan second on Shoot The Bar.

Excuse Me was third in IRC2, Pat Barrett and Cathal Conlon won the race on Y-Knot, with Roy Hanan second on Plumbat and the Ivers-Deasy-Desmond team on Bad Company third.

Bad Company took the overall with Y -Knot second and Plumbat third.

Peter Webster’s Thistle won the All In Echo race from Stewart Nairn on Maximum, with Patrick O’Donovan third on Isor. Overall victory went to Maximum, with Pat Vaughan’s Bedlam second and Magnet third.

The Glandore Club stages its At Home Regatta this weekend with a SCORA race for Classes 1, 2, and 3 there on Sunday.

As always, the Royal Cork boats will have a feeder race from Crosshaven to Glandore and the Kinsale club will have a feeder race to Castletownshend.

Racing for Class One Starts 13.30 on Sunday at Glandore with Neil Prendeville as OOD and there will also be a special White Sail Fleet race.

Kinsale will hold their annual Fastnet race on Friday June 10 with sponsorship from Anglo Irish Bank and it will also be a Scora race.