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#RS - Thirteen Fevas battled it out with Tim Norwood and Finn Cleary of the Royal Irish Yacht Club who took their class Southern title with five bullets to count as the RS Southern Championships concluded yesterday (Sunday 16 September) in Baltimore Harbour.

Frank O’Rourke and Emma Hynes of Greystones Sailing Club had an equally impressive series, never dropping out of the top three and winning the 21-strong RS 200 fleet.

In the RS400 class, the recent third-place finishers at the RS400 Europeans held their winning form securing the Southern title in a fleet of 18 boats.

Alex Barry and Richard Leonard (Monkstown Bay/Royal Cork) held off the home team of Johnny and Harry Durcan as well as Rush Sailing Club’s Alan Ruigrok and Max McNught with five bullets.

Baltimore Sailing Club thanked event organiser Jim Griffiths, helpers afloat and onshore, the race management team, results personnel and all competitors at the late season event and a fitting conclusion to the 2018 RS calendar.

Published in RS Sailing

#RS - Three races were completed yesterday (Saturday 15 September) on day one of the RS Southern Championships at Baltimore Sailing Club.

In the RS200, Frank O’Rourke and Emma Hynes on .com from Greystones Sailing Club lead the fleet with two bullets and a second place in the third race yesterday.

They stood just a point ahead of Usain Boat, helmed by Aaron Jones with Rosemary Tyrell from Greystones and the Royal Irish YC.

In the RS400, Alex Barry and Richard Leonard (Monkstown Bay/Royal Cork) were number one with three bullets, while Tim Norwood and crew Finn Cleary (RIYC) lead the RS Feva field as of yesterday evening’s results.

Published in RS Sailing

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago