EVENTS
The Training Page
has been updated with new course dates and information!!
Cushendall Sailing & Boating Club
Are to host a 2 day
event for all RS200s and RS400s on 11th/12th
September.
Emphasis will be on
close, tight racing on the water both days, coupled with a lively
entertainment schedule for Saturday evening.
Further details to follow. Check back on
www.csbc.co.uk
for updates
Do you have an
opening day regatta, or a spring series? Let us know, and we will put it
out in this newsletter in the future.
Did you know you can
list your events for free on the What’s On in NI website?
http://www.whatsonni.com/
Donaghadee Sailing Club
Junior Regatta
Saturday 16th August
Sponsored by Centra
Donaghadee
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The event is open to the following classes:-
Toppers, Topper 4.2, Pico (double handed), Mirrors, Laser 4.7. Laser
Radial, Laser Full Rig, RS Feva
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Age limit Competitors must be
aged 8 – 17
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Registration @10.00
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First race @ 11.30
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Second race @ 14.30
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Prizes galore
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BBQ ashore for competitors, followed by Prize
giving @17.00
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Junior disco in the evening @19.30 +
entertainment for adults
For further
information email office@donaghadeesc.co.uk
or visit our website
www.donaghadeesc.co.uk
Strangford Lough Regattas:
The Regattas are run every year
and take place at each club in Strangford Lough.
www.strangfordloughregattas.co.uk
Lough
Erne Yacht Club
7/8 August J24 Northern, for further information checkout out
www.leyc.net
27-30 August Lough Erne Classic Yacht Regatta, for further information
checkout
www.classicsailireland.com
Ulsters and Masters
Championship of Ireland - GP14 Report
The Ulsters
and Masters Championship of Ireland was held at Donaghadee Sailing Club
on the 26th and 27th June 2010. The event sponsor
was Ards Tourism. Nearly thirty teams turned out to enjoy the sailing
and great hospitality of the club. The officer of the day Jimmy McKee
set the course just off the clubhouse in a building southerly breeze in
strong tide.
Robert
Gingles and his son Chris were first to read the importance of the tide
and rounded the weather mark in the lead followed by Norman Lee and
Stephen Walker with Johnny Park and Bob Stinton in third. Staying hard
right paid throughout the weekend and it was this factor that made
passing difficult. The Gingles held out to the end followed by Niall
Henry and James Conlon with Keith Louden and Dessie Hughes in their new
Duffin design.. Whether the latest Duffin hull is fast or the time they
spent in the gym over winter was well spent…but the boys are going very
fast.
With the wind
increasing it was the Sutton team of Paul Maguire and Stewart Boyle who
lead throughout followed by Henry/Conlon and with the very fast Alan
Blay and Niamh McCormack in a very close third.
Back at the
club that evening the fleet enjoyed the great hospitality of its member
and the event sponsors, Ards Tourism. All were entertained by and
acoustic which kept the tills kept ring until the early hours making for
happy club and very shaky sailors the next day which unfortunately for
some…was breezy.
Race three was led from start to
finish by Paul and Stuart with the Gingles pair in second and the
Henry/Conlon team in third.
The Championship was up for
grabs in the final race.
The Gingles pair made it to the
right ahead of the pack led at the windward mark with Richard Street/Dan
Crilly from Blessington in second and Henry/Conlon in third. The
Blessington team had some difficulties at the gybe (it sounded like that
anyway) allowing the Sligo boat into second. Maguire /Boyle were back in
fourth and needed a top three finish to win. It stayed that way for the
next lap but eventually Henry/Conlon took the lead and Maguire worked
their way up to second with Robert and Chris Gingles finishing third. It
finished it that order making Paul Maguire and Stuart Boyle Ulster
Champions for 2010. Robert Gingles was crowned Master champion winning
every race in the Master’s section. Adam Scott and Eamon Bourne won the
Ulster Youth title, which was also sailed within the event.
Great credit must go to all at
Donaghadee S.C. for all the hard work they put into running the event,
their enthusiasm and warm welcome. This really is a part of Northern
Ireland that deserves a visit.
Results:
Ulsters:
1st Place Paul Maguire and Stuart Boyle
2nd Place Niall
Henry and James Conlon
3rd Place
Robert Gingles and Chris Jingles
Ulsters
Silver Fleet: 1st Place Johnny Park and Bob
Stinston
2nd Place Adam
Scott and Eamon Bourne
3rd Place
Steven Preston and Brenda Niblock
Ulsters
Bronze Fleet: 1st Place Oisin McCelland and Stuart
Ogg
2nd Place James
Ogg and Ronan O’Beirne
3rd Place Bill
Johnson and Stephen Byrne
Masters: 1st Place Robert
Gingles and Chris Gingles
2nd Place
Alastair Duffin and Paul Whitcombe
3rd Place
Norman Lee and Stephen Walker
Youths: 1st Place Adam Scott and
Eamon Bourne
