Tomorrow's ICRA National Championships on Dublin Bay will pay tribute to the late Tom Power, the former navigator and tactician on George Sisk's series of WOW cruiser racer campaigns who died last Saturday.

Tom, whose life was celebrated at a packed gathering at the Maritime Museum in Dun Laoghaire yesterday, was a stalwart of Irish offshore sailing going back to the Admiral's Cup era. He was a former Fastnet Race and Round Ireland Race winner as well as a long-standing member of the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

Both ICRA committee boats will sound one long blast prior to the start of race one on Friday morning for a minute's silence in Tom's honour on his beloved Dublin Bay race track.