All Ireland Sailing Attracts Top Crews for SB20 Event on Lough Ree (Final Entry List Here)

4th October 2018

A fleet of eight SB20s – racing without gennakers – will be used to decide the All Ireland Sailing Title this weekend on Lough Ree Credit: Afloat.ie

Saturday's All Ireland Sailing Championships run by Irish Sailing at Lough Ree Yacht Club has attracted some of the top sailing names in the country for the annual battle of the champion of champions event that will be sailed on Lough Ree in SB20s for the first time.

The final list of entrants has been issued by Irish Sailing this morning with Olympian Finn Lynch, multi–dinghy champion Jim Hunt, former Irish Sailor of the Year Noel Butler and Dragon Edinburgh Cup winner Adam Winkelmann, to name but a few, all joining the ranks of crews for the end of season climax.

Read the final list below:

As Afloat.ie reported earlier, past champion Fionn Lyden will defend his title against some of the country's top sailing talent with bronze medalist in the Laser U21 World Championships, Liam Glynn one of six Northern Ireland helmsmen to be nominated.

Six keelboat sailors, nine dinghy sailors and one multihull sailor make up this year's invitation list.

Helm	Class	Club	Crew Name
Donagh Good	1720	Royal Cork Yacht Club	Grattan Roberts
Dave Gorman	Flying Fifteen	National Yacht Club	Chris Doorly
Darragh McCormack	Mermaid/ICRA 4	Foynes Yacht Club	Johnny Dillon
Alex Barry	RS 400	Royal Cork Yacht Club/ Monkstown Bay Sailing Club	Mel Collins
Ross Kearney	GP 14	Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club	Jim Hunt
Jocelyn Hill	RS 200	County Antrim Yacht Club	Katie Kane
Peter Wallace	Squib	Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club	Martin Weatherstone
Guy Kilroy	Waterwags	Royal Irish Yacht Club	Adam Winkelmann
Graham Mc Mullin	Shannon One Design	Lough Ree Yacht Club	John Malone
Simon Revill	IDRA 14	Sutton Dinghy Club	Noel Butler
Peter Kennedy	SB20	Strangford Lough Yacht Club	Stephen Kane
Stefan Hyde	J24	Royal Cork Yacht Club/Royal Irish Yacht Club	Cillian Dickson
Fionn Lyden	2017 Champion	Baltimore Sailing Club	David Harte
Liam Glynn	Laser Standard	Ballyholme Yacht Club/ UCD sailing club	Tom Purdon
Neil Hegarty	Dragon	Royal St George Yacht Club/Baltimore Sailing Club	Tom Hegarty
Aisling Keller	Laser Radial	LDYC/Royal Irish Yacht Club/Trinity Sailing Club	Finn Lynch

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