Kinsale Yacht Club Hosts Top Youth Sailors for All Ireland Challenge

24th September 2014

#youthsailing – ISAF youth silver medallist Seafra Guilfoyle is a wild card entry into this weekend's All Ireland youth sailing event at Kinsale Yacht Club this Saturday. Crosshaven based Guilfoyle, who won world silver in Portugal in July, is slated against 19 other top Irish youth sailors who will compete in the double–handed Topaz dinghy fleet.

Over 30 sailors from 11 classes were considered and the Irish Sailing Association organisers say their selection process allocated places based on the numbers of boats declared by the classes attending their national championships. The full list on invitees for the weekend fixture is published below (with some crew names missing).

The host Topaz dinghy has two nominees from its own national championships held in Dingle and the RS Feva also has two sailors attending. The Optimist class has three sailors slated including top European championships perfomers, Clare Gorman of the National Yacht Club and James McCann of Royal Cork. 420 dinghy youths are represented by national champion Peter McCann and girls champion Cliodhna NiShuillebhain of the host club.

The Mirror dinghy is also included with teams coming from Lough Ree YC and Sutton Dinghy Club.

Class	Helm	Club	Crew
RS Feva	Alison Dolan	Blessington SC	Grainne Young
RS Feva	Triona Hinkson	Royal St.George YC	Catherine Kelly
RS200 - Youth	Stephen Craig	Royal St.George YC
Optimist	James McCann	Royal Cork YC	Michael Carroll
Optimist	Gemma McDowell	Malahide YC
Optimist	Clare Gorman	National YC
Mirror	Shane McLoughlin	Sutton DC	Oscar Langan
Mirror	Tiarnan Dickson	Lough Ree YC	Rory MacAllister
Topper	Hugh Perette	National YC
Topper	Ros Morgan	Skerries SC
Topper	Adam D'Arcy	Royal Cork YC	James Hassett
Laser 4-7	Johnny Durcan	Royal Cork YC	Florence Lyden
Laser 4-7	Rory Caslin	National YC	Scott Levie
Topaz	Jack Kiely	Dungarvan HSC
Topaz	Paddy Cunnane	Dingle SC
International 420	Peter McCann	Royal Cork YC	Micheal O'Suileabhain
International 420	Cliodhna NiShuillebhain	Kinsale YC
GP14 - Youth	David Johnston	Sutton DC
Wild Card	Harry Durcan	Royal Cork YC	Harry Whittaker
Wild Card	Séafra Guilfoyle	Royal Cork YC

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