Cian McCarthy's brand new Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl has been hitting some top speeds in training off the Kinsale coast recently.
In this video clip (below) the Irish debutante is clocked doing 15 knots in 25 knots of wind. In other south coast training runs, boat speeds have hit 20-knots downwind in flat water in just 30-knots of breeze.
The video shows the new design blasting past Kinsale's Old Head at the same time as the McCarthy crew would have been expecting to be off there if the 2020 Round Ireland Race had started last Saturday (June 20) as originally scheduled. The only difference, of course, is that the crew were heading southeasterly with the Code 0 flying as opposed to hard on the wind if they were in the race due to the strong prevailing southwesterly winds.
As regular Afloat readers will know, the new marque that got a special MGM Boats unveiling at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in March is now being widely tipped as the new Olympic keelboat double hander for Paris 2024 but for the moment, at least, McCarthy is sailing with a four or five-man crew for the 700-mile Round Ireland.
