What a week that was for North Sails Ireland!
Dragon Nationals
HUGE congratulations to the "Little Fella" team of Cameron Good, Henry Kingston and Matias Helstern from Kinsale YC, who brought the Dragon Nationals back to Kinsale for the first time in 31 years.
It was a poignant and emotional moment for Cameron, whose Dad, Courtney Good won the Dragon Nationals in 1975 and sadly left us recently. His heartfelt speech at the prizegiving last night left us all a little choked up.
I managed to snap this pic of the winning team yesterday evening in Royal St. George YC holding the coveted trophy.
L-R Matias, Henry and Cameron holding the Dragon Irish Championship trophy Photo: Maurice O'Connell
"Little Fella" was powered 100% by North Sails. Huge congratulations again, guys - epic stuff.
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Flying Fifteen Nationals
Double Olympian Peter Kennedy, racing with his fantastic daughter Juliette, won the Flying Fifteen Nationals hosted by the Nationals YC at the weekend. I witnessed the strong and gusty but magic conditions out there yesterday, and at only 145kgs all-up crew weight, they still won. "Amazed at how fast we were in 20 kts with only 145kg", commented Peter after the racing.
Peter & Juliette Kennedy winning the Flying Fifteen nationals, seen here flying their North Sails FR-5 mainsail and RS-1 spinnaker Photo: Afloat
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J24 Europeans
Finally, racing in Howth YC all week, the Greek team of Stelios Sotiriou with his crew Christos Kifidis, Kynthia Skotida, Rania Vergou and Costas Tridima won a tightly contested J24 European Championships.
They won on "JMANIA" on a split-point "countback" tie-break against David Hale's "Cacoon".
(R) European champions GRE 5367 "Jmania" flying her North Sails Fat Head mainsail and DX7TT genoa leading into the offset mark
Pic: 2nd overall in J24 Europeans GBR 4269 "Cacoon", seen here flying her North Sails fat head mainsail and DX-7TT genoa to leeward of "Headcase" from Howth YC
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We salute all the competitors for yet another memorable week of championship racing - well done, everyone!
