The waterfront bookmakers were refusing to take any bets for the last two days of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on James Dwyer's weird and wonderful Classic Half Tonner Swuzzlebubble from Cork for the Class 2 IRC win, and sure enough she finished with bullets right to the end, discarding only the hiccup of a fourth on Friday morning.
Colin Kavanagh's J/97 Jeneral Lee from Howth Photo: Bob Bateman
Colin Kavanagh's J/97 Jeneral Lee from Howth matched this in a way, with a straight line of seconds except for Friday's first race with its eminently discardable 3rd, while third place went to the all-black First Something-or-Other Allig8r raced by Brendan Foley of The George, which must have been like an oven these past few days (the all black Allig8r, that is).
Brendan Foley's First 8 Allig8r from the Royal St. George Yacht Club Photo: Bob Bateman
Swuzzlebubble on the double with ECHO
No matter what way they timed her, Swuzzlebubble kept winning, and that included her showing under ECHO where her final lineup was 1,(3),2,1,3,2 to give her 9 points against the 11 of John Conlon's Humdinger of Arklow, while Frank Whelan of Greystones, who has been making the scene earlier this year with the Elliott 57 Opal, downsized by more than 50% to race Crazy Diamond (geddit?) in this Regatta, taking third overall in Class 2 ECHO.
