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#fullirish – Irish sailor of the year David Kenefick departs on a 100–mile delivery race down the coast to Les Sables-d'Olonne in advance of the first race of the year, The Solo Maitre Coq which starts on Thursday. His boat "The Full Irish' is completely ready, he says, in spite of the light weather forecast which looks very challenging. 

The 320–mile race has a record entry of 36 entries and Kenefick, as usual, is the only Irish entry. Listen in to him hear talking about life in L'Orient, on the French Atlantic coast and his race preparations in the podcast above. Entry list below:

En solitaire :

1 AHRWEILLER Joan FRA
2 BEYOU Jérémie FRA
3 BIARNES Vincent FRA
4 BOMBY Henry GBR
5 BOUTELL Jackson GBR
6 CHABAGNY Thierry FRA
7 DALIN Charlie FRA
8 DELAHAYE Fabien FRA
9 DOUGUET Corentin FRA
10 ELIES Yann FRA
11 GAHINET Gwénolé (Bizuth) FRA
12 GAUTIER Alain FRA
13 GOODCHILD Sam GBR
14 GUILLOU Damien FRA
15 HARDY Adrien FRA
16 HILL Ed GBR
17 HOREAU Corentin FRA
18 JONGH Alexandre (Bizuth) FRA
19 JOSCHKE Isabelle FRA
20 JOSSIER Nicolas FRA
21 KENEFICK David IRL
22 LOISON Alexis FRA
23 MAHE Gildas FRA
24 MARCHAND Anthony FRA
25 MASON Rich (Bizuth) GBR
26 MATSON Sam ( Bizuth) GBR
27 PERON Eric FRA
28 PRUVOT Claire FRA
29 RICHOMME Yoann FRA
30 RIVET Frédéric FRA
31 ROBERTS Alan (Bizuth) GBR
32 SALZES Clément (Bizuth) FRA
33 SHARP Phil GBR
34 SIMON Sébastien (Bizuth) FRA
35 TOMASEVIC Emil (Bizuth) CRO
36 TROEL Simon FRA

Published in Figaro

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