Matthews Helly Hansen Kinsale Yacht Club Spring Series - Day 4
by Michael Walsh 30 Apr 2018 10:28 BST
29 April 2018
Matthews Helly Hansen Kinsale Yacht Club Spring Series © Siobhan Keane Hopcraft
The Child of Prague was put out on Friday night and, for the second week in a row, competitors in the Matthews Helly Hansen sponsored April League hosted by Kinsale Yacht Club enjoyed a spell of sunshine that was decent enough to warrant dusting off the factor 50 sun cream.
Once enough breeze had filled, PRO Denis Kieran called for the AP to be removed to allow the day's proceedings and some more champagne sailing to get underway across Kinsale's Outer Harbour.
The light north easterly breeze was due to shift southwards which ultimately it did, meaning the Round the Cans course from Bullens Bay over to the Sovereigns Islands allowed for plenty of sunny photographs of boats finishing under full spinnakers at the Bulman buoy.
Conor Phelan's Jump Juice first place on the water secured the overall winners spot for IRC Class 1 over Denis Murphy's Nieulargo, with Paul Tingle's Alpaca completing the rout for the Crosshaven fleet.
Peter Collins maintained the impressive form of his Olsen 30 to take line honours from KYCs Finny O Regan in IRC Class 2 and secured the silverware for Crosshaven in this fleet for both IRC and Echo.
Event Sponsor James Matthews was back in form and Diamond regained the IRC trophy secured last year. Headcase finished in second place and Flyover in third.
A special mention of thanks to Rear Commodore Susan Horgan for organizing the barrebue and for her dedicated assistance on the Race Management Team for the whole series. Also a huge thanks to Race Officer Denis Kieran and to Tony & Ciara O'Brien for providing such a warm welcome and wonderful refreshments each week aboard committee boat White Tiger.
Results for Race 6 and overall spring series at www.kyc.ie. On the water photographs courtesy of Siobhan Keane Hopcraft and prize giving photos by Dave Cullinane on the KYC Facebook page.
Overall Results:
Class 1 IRC: Conor Phelan's Jump Juice
Class 1 Echo: Denis Murphy Nieulargo
Class 2 IRC: Kieran Collins's Oracle IV
Class 2 Echo: Kieran Collins's Oracle IV
Class 3 IRC: James Matthews's Diamond
Class 3 Echo: O 'Halloran & Helstern Headcase
Whitesail: Sammy Cohen's Gunsmoke II