In a weekend in which Eve McMahon of Howth added a major Silver Medal to her year's store of internationally-achieved significant metalware, you'd think that was enough to be going on with. But the formidable female skippers of the peninsula were only getting going.
Racing at the Women at the Helm Regatta on Dublin Bay Photo: Ronan Beirne
Even as the good news from Portugal was still registering, Eve's clubmates were making hay in the Women at the Helm event across Dubin Bay at the National Yacht Club, with Laura Dillon backed up by Diana Kissane winning overall in Class 1 in charge of the J/99 Snapshot, while Aoife Hopkins won the Sportsboat Division racing one of the HYC J/80s.
The Class One J122 Aurelia Women at the Helm crew on the dock
Women at the Helm Results 2022:
