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Calves Week Day Three Racing Postponed Due to Poor Visibility

8th August 2024
Calves Week Regatta in Schull, West Cork, has been postponed on Thursday (August 8) until 13.30 due to poor visibility
Calves Week Regatta in Schull, West Cork has been postponed on Thursday (August 8) until 13.30 due to poor visibility Credit: Bob Bateman

Racing at West Cork's biggest sailing event, Calves Week Regatta in Schull, has been postponed until 13.30 on Thursday due to poor visibility.

The 61-boat fleet has had two blustery days of inshore racing, but the schedule has already been set back with the postponement of Tuesday's race to the Fastnet Rock.

On Wednesday evening, organisers expressed doubt about the Fastnet race's resail due to Thursday's weather forecast.

The situation will be reviewed at lunchtime.

UPDATE at noon on 8/8/2024. No racing today.

Day two's racing report is here

Published in Calves Week
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Calves Week Regatta takes place in Schull in early August, continuing the annual tradition in West Cork since the inception of the Schull Harbour Sailing Club in 1884.

In more recent years, a more compact schedule as an alternative to the older two-week even has proved popular.

The four-day Calves Week Championships with the usual mix of courses taking in the Fastnet Rock and many of Carbery's Hundred Isles, together with laid courses in Roaringwater Bay is one of Irish sailing's enduring fixtures. 

A daily prize-giving takes place on Main Street in Schull, which sees a nautical festival theme for the village organised by local businesses.