Royal St. George's Top D2D Corinthian Skipper is Presented With Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy

22nd July 2022

Chris Power Smith skipper of the J/122 Aurelia from the RStGYC and some of his crew receive the Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy (First Corinthian Boat in the 2021 D2D Race) at a presentation in the Royal St George Yacht Club after DBSC Thursday racing on July 20th. The Trophy is Presented by Adam Winkelmann (D2D Chairman) along with Con Murphy (D2D PRO), Richard O’Connor (Commodore RStGYC) and Conor O’ Regan (Commodore NYC)

At a special presentation, Chris Power Smith skipper of the J/122 Aurelia from the RStGYC and some of his crew receive the Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy (First Corinthian Boat in the 2021 D2D Race) at a presentation in the Royal St George Yacht Club after DBSC Thursday racing on July 20th. The Trophy is Presented by Adam Winkelmann (D2D Chairman) along with Con Murphy (D2D PRO), Richard O’Connor (Commodore RStGYC) and Conor O’ Regan (Commodore NYC) Credit: Michael Chester

Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Chris Power Smith, skipper of the J/122 Aurelia from the RStGYC, was presented with the Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy (First Corinthian boat in the 2021 D2D Race) at a presentation in the Royal St George Yacht Club after DBSC Thursday racing on July 20th.

The perpetual trophy was presented by Adam Winkelmann (D2D Chairman) along with Con Murphy (D2D PRO), Richard O’Connor (Commodore RStGYC) and Conor O’ Regan (Commodore NYC)

The re-purposed Perpetual Trophy was kindly provided by the NYC and beautifully restored by Pat Shannon of Facet Jewellers, Dun Laoghaire.

As Afloat reported at the time, Carmel, a stalwart of Dun Laoghaire sailing, sadly passed away in St Vincent’s University Hospital at the same time as her son Adam was presenting the prizes in Dingle to the various Race Prizewinners on June 12th last year. As was her way, and despite her very brief but serious illness, she found the wherewithal to instruct her son Adam to go to Dingle to finish the yachts and complete the race administration and prizegiving along with the rest of the NYC team.

Fitting tribute - the Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy is presented by her son Adam (right) to top Corinthian skipper Chris Power Smith for his 2021 performance in the offshore race. Photo: Michael Chester

"It is fitting that following a near lifetime of volunteer effort by the late Carmel Winkelmann a trophy recognising Corinthian values will be perpetually presented in her name", Adam told Afloat.

"Congratulations to Chris Power Smith and the Aurelia crew on a wonderful performance in the race where they finished first Corinthian and 4th Overall in IRC", he said.

The 2023 D2D race will start from the NYC in Dun Laoghaire on Wednesday, June 7th 2023. More details are expected in due course from the National Yacht Club including event sponsorship.

Published in Dun Laoghaire Dingle, National YC, RStGYC

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The 16th edition of the 280-mile race organised by the National Yacht Club starts at 2 pm on Wednesday, June 7th, on Dublin Bay.

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Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race Information

The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race is a 320-miles race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry.

The race is organised by the National Yacht Club.

It never fails to offer a full range of weather, wind and tide to the intrepid entrants, ranging from a 32ft cruiser to a 79ft all-out racer.

Three divisions are available to enter: cruiser (boats equipped with furlers), racing (the bulk of the fleet) and also two-handed.

D2D Course change overruled

In 2019, the organisers considered changing the course to allow boats to select routes close to shore by removing the requirement to go outside Islands and Lighthouses en route, but following input from regular participants, the National Yacht Club decided to stick with the tried and tested course route in order to be fair to large and smaller boats and to keep race records intact.

D2D Course record time

Mick Cotter’s 78ft Whisper established the 1 day and 48 minutes course record for the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in 2009 and that time stood until 2019 when Cotter returned to beat his own record but only just, the Dun Laoghaire helmsman crossing the line in Kerry to shave just 20 seconds off his 2009 time.