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He was soon teamed up with Otto Glaser whose first Tritsch-Tratsch – an innovative George McGruer designed-and-built 43ft sloop – was the star of 1971, notching many successes. At one stage they led the Fastnet Race, and finished fifth, becoming the first winners of the Gull Salver for the best-placed Irish boat. 1973 saw Tritsch-Tratsch II, a new 47ft McGruer design, which in that year became the first Irish overall winner of an RORC Race in the English Channel, and in 1975 won the Gull Salver. In 1977, Otto Glaser changed direction to a Frers design, the 47ft alloy-built Red Rock, and with Pat Moore playing a central management role, they again won the Gull Salver. Pat particularly enjoyed transferring his skills to the top level Solent racing, and gave as good as he got in international competition in that hotbed of sailing intensity. His repartee afloat was world class, and he partied with zest. Back in Ireland in working life, his involvement with Otto Glaser’s pioneering enterprises in the national and international electronics industries resulted in the unique Moore management style being successfully transferred to a factory in the Donegal Gaeltacht in Gweedore, and he threw himself with great energy into every aspect of life in that extraordinary part of the world. With marriage to Katie and the arrival of their son Michael, he became a boat-owner himself with the Hanse 370 Mystic Force. His debut in white sail racing in Howth was keenly anticipated, but he was suddenly taken ill last summer. Hospital visits were met with the unique Moore humour, but his condition deteriorated, and he died at Christmas aged 64, his memory cherished by all who knew him.