Irish Squib South Coast Championships at Glandore Harbour Yacht Club

by Eunice Kennedy 22 Jul 2014 11:25 BST 19-20 July 2014

Colm Dunne and Rob Gill win the Squib South Coast Championships at Glandore Harbour (Commodore John Dowling in the centre) © Mary Casey

Squib South Coast Championships at Glandore Harbour © Kathleen Hayes

They came from far and near to compete in the Squib South Coast Championship at glorious Glandore. Beautiful weather but light or no wind provided Principal Race Officer Nigel Kearney with challenging conditions to run the planned 3 races on the Saturday 19th July.

Nigel achieved 2 shortened races but was forced to abandon the third race on the first beat, due to a significant fading wind shift. Patience and prayer would not suffice and all sailors were directed to the shore.

Race 1 saw Anemos, helmed by Pete Evans in first, Quickstep III helmed by Gordon Patterson second and Perfection helmed by Jill Fleming in third.

Race 2 provided a win for Lola helmed by Frank Whelan, second for Quickstep III and a third place for Anemos. Allegro improved to fourth, but posed no overall threat.

Sunday the 20th began with a light, but dying land breeze; racers wallowed around for approximately two hours for the wind gods to return to normal service. Race 4 commenced with a 10 to 15 knots of wind and sunshine – champagne sailing.

From way back in the rankings, Allegro now found the groove and produced a sparkling first place finish, with Lola, and Quickstep III in close order. Effective points now were 5, 3 & 4 respectively.

In what would transpire to be the last race of the event Allegro pulled a dramatic first to Quickstep III's second, with Why Not helmed by Derek Jago, crashing the party with a third place, relegating Lola to fourth in this race.

Final effective points in the Gold Fleet were Allegro and Quickstep III, tied on 6 points each and Lola with 7 points, which was resolved by the scorer using appendix A8.1. The final result was first Allegro from KYC, second Quickstep III from RNYC and third Lola RSGYC.

In the Silver Fleet, John Stanley on Bateleur, KYC, took third, local hotshot Pat O'Riordan, GHYC on Blue Bottle placed second, and Colm Daly on Lazarus placed first.

Overall Results:

Pos	Boat Name	Helm	Crew	Sail	Club	R1	R2	R4	R5	Pts
1	Allegro	Colm Dunne	Rob Gill	134	KYC	11	4	1	1	6
2	Quickstep III	Gordon Paterson	Ross Nolan	820	RNYC	2	2	3	2	6
3	Lola	Frank Whelan	Brian Hare	46	RSGYC	8	1	2	4	7
4	Anemos	Pete Evans	Anne Evans	832	RSGYC	1	3	9	5	9
5	Why Not	Derek Jago	Jean Jago	798	RSGYC	4	5	10	3	12
6	Perfection	Jill Fleming	Conor O'Leary	44	RSGYC	3	7	4	6	13
7	Little Demon	Sheila Power	Rupert Westrup	95	RSGYC	7	10	12	7	24
8	Too Dee	David Sheahan	Margaret Potenz	686	HYC/RAYC	13	11	6	9	26
9	Espresso	Victor Fusco	Ruth Ennis	150	KYC	6	8	13	13	27
10	Fagin	Colm O'Reagan	Finbarr O'Regan	100	KYC	12	9	8	10	27
11	Trojan	Sean Thompson	Gavin Bingham‑Wallis	714	GHYC	9	6	15	17	30
12	Buzzlite	Gerry O'Connor	Elena Romero	125	RSGYC	16	15	5	8	28
13	Pintail	Tonia McAllister	Fergal Gaynor	875	RSGYC	10	12	11	11	32
14	Lazarus	Colm Daly	Brian Carroll	483	KYC	17	13	7	16	36
15	Blue Bottle	Pat O'Riordan	Colman O'Riordan	571	GHYC	5	19	18	23	47
16	Bateleur	John Stanley	Mary Stanley	624	KYC	19	18	14	17	49
17	Taquilla Chaser	Killian Murphy	Cynthia Murphy	320	GHYC	18	17	21	15	50
18	Scooby Doo	Diarmuid Wrenne	Darren Brown	756	GHYC	14	20	19	22	53
19	Golden Eagle	Kevin Hayes	P.J. Cahalane	580	GHYC	26	23	17	14	54
20	Ladybird	Gordon Mills	Eldon Allison	166	GHYC	21	14	26	19	54
21	Too go bog e	Karen Horgan	Molly Goulding	767	GHYC	22	21	16	18	55
22	Capricorn	Donal Lynch	Cormac O'Carroll	562	GHYC	15	26	22	20	57
23	Freetrader	Margaret Hannon	Ray Green	782	RIYC	20	16	23	21	57
24	Astrid	John Wyles	Maggie Wood	351	GHYC	24	22	20	24	66
25		David McHugh	Sadhb McHugh	418	GHYC	23	24	26	26	73