ISORA applauded its 2023 overall champion Paul O'Higgins and his Royal Irish Rockabill VI crew at the association's annual sell-out black-tie dinner at the National Yacht Club on Saturday, November 11th.
The winning JPK 10.80 crew and many other prizewinners were saluted at the traditional Dun Laoghaire Harbour venue, typically one of the biggest gala prizegiving nights of the waterfront year.
In a big weekend for sailing prizegivings at Ireland's biggest boating centre, DBSC presented its awards on Friday night.
Before the celebrations, the 2024 ISORA draft calendar was unveiled at the association's agm, as Afloat reports here.
O'Higgins lifted the overall Wolf's Head Trophy again on the evening, an award which he last held in 2020 (not awarded in 2021 due to COVID) after losing out to the North Wales J109 Mojito last season.
O'Higgins also won the Vincent Farrell Trophy for his coastal series victory.
ISORA Chairman Peter Ryan, Peter Dunlop (Vice Chairman) Stephen Turor (Hon Sec) and ISORA 2023 Champion Paul O’Higgins, skipper of Rockabill VI from the Royal Irish Yacht Club Photo: GP Foto
Rockabill VI's crew included Philip Connor, Conor O'Higgins, Paul Gough, James Gunn, Ian O'Meara and John Kelly. Front: Finola Flanagan, Paul O'Higgins, Kieran Tarbett, Anna Walshe, Mark Pettitt, Oisin Collins, Rees Kavanagh, Adam Leddy, Harry Beausang, Graham Curran and Bill Nolan.
ISORA Chairman Peter Ryan used the occasion to honour Welsh sailor Richard Tudor – for services rendered to the association and for being part of ISORA for nearly 50 years.
Richard Tudor, Peter Ryan and Anne-Marie Ryan at the ISORA prizegiving, where Tudor was honoured for his long service of the association Photo: GP Foto
The guest enjoyed a reception before dinner and finished the night with a Jack Ryan whiskey toast and a live band to round out the Irish Sea's offshore sailing year.
