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#wilsontrophy –  The 65th Wilson Trophy was marked by high winds and innumerable cups of tea as competitors and umpires waited for suitable racing conditions. With racing delayed on Friday and no sailing at all on Sunday the Wilson Trophy was decided by the result of 13 rounds of the League, a mere 208 races!

Following some serious number-crunching, including factoring in the re-sail of an already re-sailed race, Royal Forth Hoosiers were declared winners of the prestigious trophy, with 10 race wins. Under various aliases, this Edinburgh based team have been frequent visitor to Ireland. This was some compensation for the somewhat muted Irish results. Howth finished 11th with 8 race wins, denied qualification for the quarter finals following the 8 stage tie-break procedure. A scratch team from the Royal St George, finished 25th, proving once again that individual talent is not sufficient, that there is no substitute for practice and experience in racing as a team.

Wilson stalwart, and Royal St. George team racing organiser, had expected to take a year off this time. However, 2 days before the first race an invitation from West Kirby to join an all-star last minute entry, replacing a team that had dropped out at the last minute, proved irresistible. This team, including Jamie Marston, a frequent visitor and good friend of Irish team racing (and sailing this time with his daughter) finished a creditable 15th.

Ireland was also represented on the 25 strong umpire team. Cxema Pico and Gordon Davies were once again honoured with an invitation to join the Wilson team.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.