• CELEBRATING 25 YEARS 1985 2010 •

Glandore Harbour Yacht Club in West Cork offers a sailing and training programme for Cruisers, Keelboats and Dinghies between May and September. Membership is growing, new members are always welcome. Our unofficial Clubhouse is the Glandore Inn, you will find us there after sailing most Sunday afternoons from May to September. Glandore Harbour offers visitor moorings and is the gateway to West Cork Cruising.

Membership now due for 2010 please send your renewal to Club Hon Treasurer:

Peter Roberts, Roberts Nathan Corporate & Private, 4th Floor, The Atrium, Blackpool Business Park, Cork.

Please advise your new email address to Peter also, we would like to have email address for every member.

Saturday July 31st

Gordon Cup

All in Dinghy regatta 3 race registration form Noon.

FG 14.00

Glandore Harbour Yacht Club
25th Anniversary Dinner
and Building fundraiser

Date: Thursday 5th August

Time: 6.30 for Buffet Dinner * at 7pm sharp
Location: The Rectory, Glandore, Co.Cork
Dress Code: As dressy as you like!

*Please contact Maeve with any dietary requirements, also advise Maeve seating
tel: +353 (0) 28 34536 or email: maeveco@gofree.indigo.ie
Thank you for your support

Marconi Cup Junior Team Challenge Glandore 2010

Last Saturday at Glandore the annual Marconi Cup Junior Team Challenge event took place hosted by Glandore Harbour Yacht Club.
The Marconi cup is a West Cork event for the combined clubs west of Galley Head and the Glandore, Baltimore, Schull, Crookhaven and Bantry usually participate. The Marconi cup was inaugurated in 2001 by Crookhaven Sailing Club and has been an important summer club event each year since, with the venue rotating each year between the Clubs.
The Marconi Cup is awarded based on the over results of the two events, the morning event is a Relay Race where each club race one boat around a fixed course, there are three laps to the course with a crew change between each lap. This event was positioned right under the village and a grandstand view was afforded to the many spectators who were cheering their teams on from the shore. There were seven teams entered, the Baltimore Blue team won, Schull were second, and Baltimore Red were third.
Following the relay race, the committee boat reset the course configuration and began the afternoon Team-racing schedule where each team sails off against the other. The teams had lunch provided on the water by the Glandore club between events. The first race started at 12.20hrs and by 16.15hrs all 21 races had been completed. Ideally races should take about 10 to 12 minutes, as the wind was light the early races were quite slow, race officer Cormac O'Carroll, reconfigured the course to shorten slightly and with a little more wind the balance of the races were sailed off really smartly.
Following the sail off there were two ties, for winning position Baltimore Red and Schull both finished with five points, with Baltimore awarded first place based on the result of the race between Baltimore Red and Schull, similarly Crookhaven1 and crookhaven 2 both finished with two points Crookhaven 2 getting 5th and Crookhaven 1getting sixth based on the result of the race between the two teams.
Overall for the days sailing the clubs and sailors winning the prizes were as follows:
Relay Race:
Winners: Baltimore Blue Team of Mark Bolger & Stephen McCarthy, Niamh Connolly & Rachel Burke, David Whitaker & Isabel Whelan
Second: Schull Team of Tomas O'Sullivan & Orla O'Donovan, Meg O'Connell & Ellen O'Regan, Gleb Montchik & Katie Monihan
Third: Baltimore Red Team of Derbhail Cotter & Éilis O'Reilly, Felix Millar & Patrick Geary, Harry Whitaker & Anna McCarthy
Team Tace event
Winners: Baltimore Red Team, Emma Geary & Eva Donworth, Jack Hogan & Tom Bushe, Jack Bushe & Brian Stokes
Second: Schull team of Jay Jay Stacey & Orla O'Donovan, Connor Miller & Ellen O'Regan, Oísín O'Driscoll & Katie Monihan
Third: Baltimore Blue Team of Diarmuid Collins & Michael Clune, Ross Johnson & Cliodhna Connolly, Lucy Bolger & Suzy O'Neill
The over all Marconi Cup was awarded based on the combined resultsd form the two competitions as sailing and results were tight, we had a tie on four points between three teams, in accordance with Notice of Race point 5.4. Tie was broken in favour of the team scoring highest in the Team Racing section of the competition. The Marconi Cup was awarded to Baltimore Sailing Club Red Team. The Sporting Achievement Trophy was awarded to Schull Harbour Sailing Club.

Raffle UPDATE

The Glandore Harbour Yacht Club this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Club and we are running a Grand raffle for a Puegot 308 car, the draw takes place on September 5th, tickets are now on sale from members and cost €20 or a book of three for €50, there are other prizes including a Carribean Cruise, a flatscreen TV and case of Champagne. The Raffle is to raise funds to develop the club and to provide better facilities to support our junior sail training programme.

To make this raffle successful it is really important that eachmember makes every effort to sell as many tickets as possible up to their allocation. Please Keep Claire Thompson advised on the progress of your ticket sales

Provisional 2 010 sailing programme now posted.

Members Notices

Windguru forecast for Glandore Bay

Cork tides