A 'tough opener' is how Commodore Peter Ryan has described the first ISORA offshore sailing race of the season from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire yesterday. Inspite of the difficult conditions though there was little change at the top of the leader board. Skerries domination of Irish Sea racing continues with the Sigma 400 Raging Bull maintaining his winning form. It was a very hard race with usual flukey conditions trying to leave Dublin Bay at 8am on Saturday morning (Afloat.ie followed the fleet out of the bay on twitter). Strong winds followed for the beat to the M2 buoy before another long leg and a short beat to Holyhead. The sea conditions on the 60-mile course were trying for many crew who were out for the first time this season.
ISORA has formed three classes this season, the aim is to give better competitive sailing between similar boats. First race results below.
Boat Name | Sail No. | Type | IRC Rating | Finish Time | Time elapsed | Corrected | Place | Place |
(provisional) | Time | Class | O/A | |||||
English Mick | GBR4771R | Beneteau 47.7 | 1.130 | 19:18:26 | 40706 | 45997 | 2 | 8 |
GFT Adventurer | GBR23161 | Beneteau 45 | 1.101 | 19:54:46 | 42886 | 47217 | 3 | 9 |
Quite Correct | IRL 5405 | DS54 | 1.095 | RET | - | - | - | - |
African Challenge | IRL 2649 | Fast 42 | 1.077 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Tsunami | IRL 4007 | First 40.7 | 1.061 | 18:48:01 | 38881 | 41252 | 1 | 4 |
Lancastrian | GBR 7682T | Starlight 14.5m | 1.059 | 20:27:00 | 44820 | 47464 | 4 | 10 |
Rebellion | IRL 6001 | Nicholson 58 | 1.054 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Orna | IRL 532 | 1.047 | DNS | - | - | - | - | |
Madam Wen | GBR1417L | Sweden 42 | 1.04 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Aztec 3 | IRL29832 | A35 | 1.034 | 18:59:30 | 39570 | 40915 | 3 | 3 |
Raging Bull | IRL 9666 | Sigma 400 | 1.027 | 18:42:30 | 38550 | 39590 | 1 | 1 |
Jedi | IRL 8088 | J109 | 1.029 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Sgrech | GBR9319R | J109 | 1.026 | 19:01:52 | 39712 | 40744 | 2 | 2 |
Miss Scarlett | IRL 4763 | Sunfast 40.3 | 1.025 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Lula Belle | IRL 3607 | First 36.7 | 1.019 | 19:35:55 | 41755 | 42548 | 5 | 6 |
First of September | IRL 8581 | First 43.5 | 1.017 | DNS | - | - | - | - |
Dinah | IRL 3508 | JOD 35 | 1.016 | 19:36:22 | 41782 | 42450 | 4 | 5 |
Adelie | FRA 9631 | First 34.7 | 0.988 | 21:26:00 | 48360 | 47779 | 2 | 11 |
Mojito | GBR 4184 | Bravaria 39 | 0.988 | 20:36:22 | 45382 | 44837 | 1 | 7 |
Mistral of St Helier | K 8337 | Sigma 38 | 0.984 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Yahtzee | IRL 1068 | Oceanis 411 | 0.983 | 02:23:00 | 66180 | 65054 | 3 | 12 |
Obsession | IRL 4513 | Sigma 33 | 0.905 | RET | - | - | - | - |
Sarnia | IRL 2260 | 0.891 | RET | - | - | - | - |