Half Tonners on Top in Class Two of Maples Group IRC Europeans on Dublin Bay

12th September 2024

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James Dwyer's Swuzzlebubble leads with a one, and two scored in the first two races of Class Two the Maples Group RORC IRC European Championships off Dun Laoghaire Credit: Afloat

Vintage Half Tonners won both of Thursday's (12th September) opening races in Class Two of the Maples Group RORC IRC European Championships off Dun Laoghaire this afternoon, but a J97 lies second overall after an unfortunate collision between two Half Tonners in race one.

Shifty northwesterly winds gusting up to 20 knots on Dublin Bay got the championships off to a flying start, but there was a disappointing outcome in the six-boat fleet when one of three Half-Tonners. competing, Adam Ovington's Head Hunter from the UK, was dismasted in the first minutes of the opening race as Afloat reports here.

P Kelly's 2 Farr from Rush Sailing Club won the second race in Class Two of the Maples Group RORC IRC European Championships off Dun Laoghaire Photo: Afloat

James Dwyer's Swuzzlebubble leads with a one, and two scored, but P Kelly's 2 Farr from Rush shook off the DNF score after her first race collision with a win in race two.

Colin Kavanagh's J97, Jeneral Lee from Howth Yacht Club crosses the finish line in the first race of Class Two of the Maples Group RORC IRC European Championships off Dun Laoghaire Photo: Afloat

Lying second overall is Colin Kavanagh's J97, Jeneral Lee from Howth Yacht Club counting a 2.3. Third is Ian McMillan's J105, Only Just with a 3,4.

Ian McMillan's J105 is lying third overall in Class Two of the Maples Group RORC IRC European Championships off Dun Laoghaire Photo: Afloat

Racing continues in the nine-race Royal Irish Yacht Club hosted championships on Friday and concludes on Sunday.

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Published in RORC IRC Europeans, Half Tonners, Royal Irish Yacht Club

Published in RORC IRC Europeans

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IRC Europeans Championships

Alternating between the North and the South of Europe (the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea), the IRC European Championship is a flagship event of the IRC season and typically aims to bring together more than 60 boats.

IRC is a World Sailing-recognised rating system and the principal yacht measurement system for the rating of racing yachts worldwide.

The event is open to all IRC-rated boats. Typically, it will consist of a minimum of four coastal or tactical races (coefficient 1) and a long coastal race (coefficient 2).

Following the inaugural championship as part of Cork Week in 2016, the event sailed in Marseille in 2017, Cowes in 2018, and San Remo in 2019; the event sailed in Hyères, France in 2021 before moving to Brekens, Holland, in 2022 and in Cannes, France last June.

The IRC rating rule is administered jointly by the RORC Rating Office in Lymington, UK and UNCL Centre de Calcul, Pôle Course du Yacht Club de France, in Paris, France.