Fair Winds for Crosshaven's Traditional Boat Regatta off the 'Grassy'

16th June 2018

Today's start, at 2pm off ‘the Grassy,’ is a traditional sail race starting point for generations of sailors

Today's Crosshaven Traditional Sail pursuit race attracted all types of plus keelboats for a harbour pursuit race, just part of this weekend's line up of attractions in Cork Harbour this weekend.

Today's start, at 2pm off ‘the Grassy,’ is a traditional sail race starting point for generations of sailors.

Today's fixture, under Race Officer Hugh Cassidy was not just for wooden boats but GRP cruisers over a certain age too.

Leading the fleet here was the wooden-hulled Northele pictured below in our gallery of photos by Bob Bateman

Laser dinghy racing RCYC1

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