#calvesweek – After yesterday's challenging conditions for Calves Week yesterday brought a moderate 20 knot southerly breeze with the remains of the swell from Monday's gales and rain from a weakening low pressure system south west of Schull. The wind eased throughout day and the smaller classes finished in a very light variable wind.
Race officer Alan Crosbie started all fleets inside Schull Harbour beginning with a beat south to the Calf Islands then to Goat Island, down Long Island sound and repeat. A real Calves Week round the islands course!
In Class 1 IRC Conor Doyle's Freya leads overall after a win today. True Pennance placed second. Under ECHO the overall leader is also Freya, today's race was won by True penance from the RCYC.
In Class 2 Black Velvet took the honours in IRC and now leads overall with Jedi (Cove Sailing Club) second and they jointly lead the class overall. Under ECHO Denis O'Sullivan won in Aris with Rioja from the Royal Cork second.
In Class 3 IRC Judy McGrath in Bonanza won again and Dave Lane and Sinead Enright placed second in YaGottaWanna and both yachts hold the same positions overall at the halfway stage. Under ECHO Diarmuid Dineen in Growler won and leads overall with John Molloy in Manzanita placed second today.
In Class 4 IRC Mick Murphy leads Tom Kirby and Sean Norris in Raffles overall with two races sailed. Under ECHO Bombora from Cove Sailing Club pipped them both to take today's race and the overall lead.
In Whitesail 1 IRC Windborne won again and leads overall. Y-Dream came in second on corrected time and lies second overall. Under ECHO Philip Smith in Just Jasmin won race 2. Bob Rendell in Somatom, after being delayed by bad weather coming from the UK, made it to the start line today and placed second.
In Whitesail 2 ECHO Tadgh Dwyer in Brazen Huzie won race 2 and Colin Morehead in giggles was second. However, Martin Lane in Chatterbox, with a second and third leads the class overall at the halfway stage.
Today, Thursday, is scheduled as Fastnet Race Day, a highlight of the week.
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