Official Results Confirmation Awaited of First ISORA Viking Marine Coastal Series Race

16th April 2023

ISORA Race Officers Barry MacNeaney and Larry Power are dwarfed in their Committee Boat RIB at the light air start of the first race of the ISORA Viking Marine Coastal Series on Dublin Bay. The Zero and One fleet was shy of the line by up to a minute due to a strong ebb tide that threatened to push the fleet over the line before the start gun Credit: Afloat

Although ISORA's YB race tracker reports Royal Irish's Paul O'Higgins made the best of a tricky course along the Dublin and Wicklow coast in his JPK10.80 Rockabill VI in the first race of the Viking Marine ISORA Coastal Series on Saturday, official confirmation of the result is awaited.

O'Higgins Rcokabill VI (left) and Pete Smyth's Sunfast 3600 Searcher shortly after the first Dun Laoghaire ISORA start of 2023 Photo: Afloat

A strong 12-boat entry, including some of ISORA's top performers, contested a 28-mile course that started in an ultra-light southerly but built as the fleet headed south in a four-hour race down to the North Wicklow coast and back.

The fleet included Howth boats, the First 50 Checkmate XX of Dave Cullen and Nigel Biggs, plus Simon Knowles J109 Indian, but Robert Rendell's Grand Soleil 44 Samatom was a no-show.

The ISORA Class Two fleet started at 10 am under spinnaker off Dun Laoghaire Photo: Afloat

It is understood that organisers are working on resolving the results difficulties, but at the time of press, this was 'still to be resolved'.

The Dun Laoghaire – Dun Laoghaire race left the Moulditch Buoy off Greystones Harbour to port.

The ISORA Class Zero and One fleet started at 10.30 am in the lightest of winds Photo: Afloat

Update 16th April 11am: Rockabill VI confirmed as race winner

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