RACING reports 2007

2007 Glandore Regatta report

Ocean Race – Schull to Glandore – Friday 17th Aug.
The 2007 Schull glandore Ocean Race started in a fresh northwesterly wind. The fleet of only five boats set off from Schull Harbour to race to Glandore Harbour at 15.15hrs last Friday. The favorable winds allowed a good down wind run as far as Toe head for some. The course took the boats through the Gasconnane sound leaving Badger Island to port, the next mark was High Island outside Glandore Harbour, and two and a half hours later the first boats rounding the Sheila point at the entrance to Glandore Harbour, lead by Sean John Murphy and Sean O’Riordan’s Y Dream who finished at 17.56 quickly followed by Vincent Tubbs Kyachtic and George Radley’s Miss Whiplash, the last boat finished within the hour. This is the third year where the Ocean race for the Glandore Regatta was run on a Friday, it is a good idea, it allows anyone who has raced at Calves week one extra regatta in West Cork before heading back east. Glandore Regattta on a Saturday means that all Sunday is available to sail back to Kinsale or Cork Harbour.

Glandore Regatta Saturday 18th August
Race Officer Cliff Hilliard and his race management team set excellent courses for the Cruisers and dinghy fleets, using in harbour and Glandore Bay sailing marks. Unfortunately the early arrival of the forecasted wind did have a big impact on the racing for the afternoon. Because of the small fleet there was an all in start for Classes I,II, and III and White Sail, the keel boat classes started with an upwind leg to a turning mark at Union hall. This made a good spectacle for those watching from the shore at Glandore. Cruiser starts were followed by the Dragon class who were racing for the Lar Casy this class had a very exciting class start!
The morning forecast was that for the wind to build in the evening however the fleet had hardly reached Adam when the wind speed jumped very suddenly from a 15/18 knot range to a 20/25 knot range, some boats reported gusts of 35Kts, this made conditions difficult for the Class 3 White Sail and Dragons, while a number of the Dragons had to retire, the impact on the dinghy and dayboat classes was more serious and resulted in all but the Laser Class race being abandoned. The Club plans to reschedule the abandoned dinghy races in the coming week.

The results are listed below:

The result for the GHYC Ocean Cup.
1 Chameleon P O’Donovan KYC
2 Miss Whiplash G. Radley GHYC
3 Southern Celt J Cooney GHYC

Glandore Regatta Day 2007
Class one IRC/ECHO. Class I
Larcia (Charlie Ryan KYC)
Class two IRC/ECHO
No Entries at this years regatta.
Class 3 ECHO
1 Chameleon P O’Donovan KYC
2 Southern Celt C Cooney GHYC
White Sail
1 Moonshadow J Whittaker GHYC
3 Silver breeze M McKenna GHYC
Dragons
1 Phoenix Frances Lynch, Cormac O’Carroll, Jay Bourke
Laser
1 Aoife Riordan GHYC

South Coast Dragon Championship 2007 Report:

GHYC member wins South Coast Dragon Championship for the first time ever!

Frances Lynch South Coast organiser presenting the South Coast Dragon trophies to Don O'Donoghue and his crew Mark Petit and Brian Matthews

Event Report:

Seventeen Dragons contested the South Coast Championships but the series was convincingly won by Dublin-based, Glandore native, Don O’Donoghue in ‘Seabird' he had three first places from his first four races. He didn’t let up much in the final race either, finishing with a commendable third.
Weather conditions on Friday made for frustrating racing with light airs and rain but Race Officer Neil Prendiville got in two races. Interesting to note that the top three boats for the series were nowhere to be seen in Race One which was won by Kinsale’s Olaf Sorensen on ‘Pink Slipper’.
Saturday’s weather at least stayed dry while light airs proved no obstacle to ‘Seabird’. She took both the day’s races in spite of a spirited challenge from Andrew Craig on ‘Chimaera’ who had racked up three third placings from four races.
Conditions on Sunday were much better: winds from the east veering to the south east as the day went on. Martin Byrne sailing ‘Jaguar’ took line honours hotly pursued by Cameron Good on ‘Tatsu’.

See Martin Doony's Photos of race 5 on
http://picasaweb.google.com/mdooney/DragonsSouthCoastsJune2007?authkey=V_mlI9_yiL8

Full Series results are posted Here

Results for 2007

GLANDORE At Home 2007 results posted Here

At Home Weekend 2007 Report:

A fleet of 10 boats gathered for the 8.00am start in Crosshaven last Saturday morning,
A heavy day of southerly winds with very poor visibility and an unsettled sea made for a fast though uncomfortable passage for the leading boats. First on the water, was Nadie, sailed by Stephen McCarthy and crew, pipped to 2nd place Shoot the Bar sailed by Peter Donegan. For the class 3 boats Domnic Losty and crew of Cobh sailing Club sailing Woody stuck it out for 11 hours and navegated into Glandore at 17.43 hours in thick fog.For Sunday’s racing for the Glandore At Home trophies, the Crosshaven boats were joined by the Kinsale fleet and there were 15 boats racing in four classes. Principal race officer for the day was Neil Prendeville, who set an Olympic course SE of the Harnbour entrance. The North-Easterly wind gave a settled sea and conditions were excellent for the regatta. After a short postponement Class I&II started with the Class III and white sail fleet starting promptly thereafter. In Class I Bluebelle of the Kinsale Club traded places all around the course with Gloves off. Elsewhere in Class I KYC’s SAMBA was duelling with Shoot the Bar of Crosshaven, on handicap the winners were IRC Shoot the Bar Peter Donegan RCYC, ECHO Samba John and Rachael Downing KYC. In Class III Woody was rewarded for their perseverance on Saturday by winning the IRC Trophy from Kinsale’s Chameleon. After a good day out, all the fleets were in from racing by 17.30hrs.
The day’s racing was followed by the usual street entertainment for the afternoon, an excellent barbeque was available in the Glandore Inn with Rockin Jerry playing until after dark. The At Home prize giving took place outside the Glandore Inn at 19.30, Former Ireland Rugby Player Paul Wallace made the presentations, there were Cups for Class I,II,III for ECHO and IRC. Prizes were given again this year for the growing White Sail Fleet in SCORA.
The weekend usually finished on Monday with a 12.00 o’clock start for the race back to Kinsale for the KYC Crohogue Jug Trophy. There were 4 boats on the start line on Monday morning with one other boat passing through the start line shortly afterwards.