#DennisConner - Howth Yacht Club took two places in the final top 10 at the sixth Dennis Conner International Yacht Club Challenge in New York City last weekend, where the honours went to South Africa's Royal Cape Yacht Club.

HYC's Team 1 made a very respectable fifth place on 43 points – only five points off the third-place Swiss squad – while Team 2 placed 10th on 67 points.

As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Howth's two teams for the event were the U25s skippered by Joseph Murphy (with Gordon Stirling, Cillian Dickson, Harry Cronin and Cian Manly) and HYC Red skippered by Simon Rattigan (Rob Kerley, Luke Malcolm, Harry O'Reilly and Sam O'Byrne).

They were among 19 amateur club teams racing in New York Harbour on boats borrowed from the Manhattan Yacht Club, sailing out of the North Cove marina at Battery Park on the southern tip of the borough.