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12th March 2018

UK Launch of Volvo Cork Week 2018 on St Patrick’s Day

Director of Racing Rosscoe Deasy will be part of the Royal Cork organisers launching Volvo Cork Week on the Hamble on St. Patrick's Day

For 40 years Volvo Cork Week has welcomed teams from overseas to the biennial regatta hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven, and what better time than Patrick's Day for the UK Launch of Volvo Cork Week 2018.

Senior members of the organising committee for Volvo Cork Week will be in attendance for two events in Hamble, which just happens to coincide with the England versus Ireland Six Nations Rugby and Grand Slam decider and St Patrick's Day.

Representing Volvo Cork Week in Hamble will be Volvo Cork Week Director of Racing, Rosscoe Deasy, Event Chairman Kieran O'Connell, and Gavin Deane, General Manager of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

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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