Kinsale & Crosshaven Yachts Leading on Water & Handicap in Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race
9th June 2021 The Murphy family s Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo is leading the Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race on corrected time
Day #1 8 pm: The weather has settled down to a warm and sunny summer s evening as the fleet in the 2021 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race turn to windward close inshore between Wicklow Head and Arklow, theoretically with ample time to appreciate the lush beauties of the coastline of the Garden of Ireland, as they ll be plugging an adverse flood tide until midnight.
But the pressure of the racing is such that coastal beauty will have to be appreciated in hindsight. Conor Doyle s Xp50 from Kinsale was finally beginning to feel the benefit of her extra length, and had moved into a stylish lead on the water, but at the 1945hrs check in, she was shown as heading back north – however, that position had reversed at 2000, and she was back on track in light winds. Read how Freya picke
Record Fastnet Race Challenge Taken Up By Ten Irish Boats
21st January 2021
Paul O Higgins champion JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI in action off the West Cork coast in Calves Week. She has raced round or past the Fastnet Rock several times in other events, but this year the star Dun Laoghaire boat will be doing the Rolex Fastnet Race itself for the first time
Credit: Robert Bateman
If anyone in the Royal Ocean Racing Club s suite of race offices was bothered by the thought that the 2021 change of course in the club s core event, the biennial Fastnet Race, was going to have a detrimental effect on entries, they didn t show it. And there was no need to worry, for within an hour of the list s electronic opening, it was already banging up against the 400-boat ceiling.