Wind improves for Ford Cork week

The mood of the wind gods had changed for the penultimate day of Ford Cork Week when they decided to give the exhausted sailors a little more wind.

Sailing to-day took place in a nice easterly breeze of 10 knots.

Speaking with Eddie English of International sailing Cobh who was sailing in IRM Class on Flirt he said today was beautiful sailing with the luxury of the race being able to start on time without having to wait for wind.

However, they did have to abandon the first start when the wind shifted and created a huge bias on the line which would have created mayhem amongst the fleet.

At the second start everybody got away cleanly and and sailed several miles out to the Old Head of Kinsale and back again, some twenty miles of a course.

Eddie is typical of the sailors who have been involved in Ford Cork Week since its inception and said it is wonderful to be meeting up with old friends again.

These are sailors who would live and compete all over the world and some of them would have known one another for 25 years.

Tomorrow will see the climax of racing and in particular spectators will be able to enjoy the sight of the High Performance Yachts as they will be in action on the harbour course.

This course is known to the local sailors as "round the cans" and it is quite a sight to watch the boats manoeuvring round the marks in very tight areas.

Some of the sailors from other countries will never have experienced such a course.

On this course local knowledge is all important and a lot of the visiting skippers will have local expert tacticians such as Eddie English whispering in their ear as they compete in their last race of the event.

Excitement is at fever pitch among all the classes.

Outstanding prestigious trophies are up for grabs plus the excitement of the award to the boat of

the week and the awarding of the magnificent prize of a trip to New Zealand for the GBR Challenge for some lucky sailors.

RESULTS:

Ford Cork Week IRM

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Wolf Glynn Williams 14

2 Bounder C C.G Little 22

3 Team Tonic Nicholas Hewson 23

Ford Cork Week IRMa

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Wolf Glynn Williams 11

2 Babbalaas David/John McLean/Rickards 15

3 Team Tonic Nicholas Hewson 16

Ford Cork Week IRMb

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Too Steamy Nick Haigh 11

2 I Site Robbie Cameron-Davies 12

3 Tigger Chris Thorne 16

Ford Cork Week IRC0

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Gloves Off Colm Barrington 13

2 Island Fling Paul F. Winklemann 14

3 Thunder 2 Robert Boulter 14

Ford Cork Week IRC1

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Cajou Pierre Blayau 7

2 Bateleur Chris Bowar 16

3 Nimmo John Killeen 21

Ford Cork Week IRC2

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Krush David Jesty 21

2 Saphire Andrew Coveney 33

3 Jacobite Robert Elliott 33

Ford Cork Week IRC3

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Jacana Allan/Bruce/James Douglas 31

2 Crewsaver Dickies Nigel Biggs 36

3 Highland Spirit Hamish Oliphant 36

Ford Cork Week IRC4

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Checkmate Mike MacCarthy 18

2 Sibelius Dardot Didier 19

3 Morning Dew Yvez Lanier 24.5

Ford Cork Week IRC5

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Kit Off Stuart Edmundson 12

2 Humphrey Go-Kart Eamon Crosbie 13.5

3 Phantom Michael Guinan/Stephen Neenan 18

Ford Cork Week IRC6

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Le Big Mc Jerome McCarthy 20

2 Flash II Adam/Jon Kyffin/Oliver 21

3 Animal Frank Desmond 22

Ford Cork Week IRC7

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Throbber Stephen Rees 19.4

2 Whistlin Dixie Fergus / Denis O'Sullivan 26

3 Cool Runnings Too John C Twomey 31

Ford Cork Week Prima 38

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Bare Knuckles Robert Gateshill 17

2 Hi Expectations James Yundell 27

3 Born Slippy Julian Bates 28

Ford Cork Week Sigma 38

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Prophet Grenville Snowden 6

2 Gambit John Charles Alexender Tildesley 21

3 Red Macaw John/Jackie Edwards 21

Ford Cork Week X332

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Tundra Donald Sharp 7

2 Carabistouilles 2 Edouard Wylleman 16

3 Exabyte Shaun Frohlich 16

Ford Cork Week 1720

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Babbalaas Bach John Rickards 21

2 Le Bouchon Michael Riley 45

3 O'Fiver Colin Bishop 47

Ford Cork Week Mixed Sports Boats

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Rattle and Hum James Ives 18

2 Laser SB3 Richard Gibson 22

3 Squelchy Monkey Jem/Kevin Kinnear/Bridges 24

Ford Cork Week ECHO

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Blade Runner Peter Whelan 19

2 Lulu Tom,Bob Eamonn Galvin 20

3 Aphrodite Dermot Burns 26

Ford Cork Week IRC Gentlemen

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Signita Lynn Johnston 6

2 Coosi Fun Tutte David Pitt 10

3 Faustina Gerry Fearon 11

Ford Cork Week Hunter 707

Place Boat Owner Points

1 Impulse Robert Cage 28

2 Censored Derek Blancke 34.5

3 Black Sheep James Ross 42.5

SALCOMBE YAWLS

Place Boat Owner

1 Tease Paul Ellis

2 Shag Andrew Reed

3 Lobster Michael Webster