Blustery northwesterly winds swept Class Zero yachts onto all three podium places in Saturday's ISORA classic race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire via Rockabill on Saturday night.
After ninety miles sailed across the Irish Sea, Frank Whelan's Greystones Harbour yacht Opal Elliott 57 put her powerful canting keel to good use to claim line honours and overall IRC victory off Dun Laoghaire Harbour just after 10 pm.
The biggest yacht in the fleet gave the Irish fleet the win in race ten of the ISORA 2024 Series in a corrected time of 14 hours, 35 minutes and 42 seconds, 13 minutes ahead of two potent Welsh entries.
Peter Dunlop & Victoria Cox's Class Zero J122 Mojito was second (14:48:25 corr), with Pwhelli club mates Andrew and Sam Hall third in the J125 Jackknife (14:51:58 corr).
The Class One winner of Saturday's ISORA classic race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire via Rockabill was Alan Hannon's JPK 1030 Coquine from Belfast Lough Photo: Afloat
The Class One winner was Alan Hannon's JPK 1030 Coquine from Belfast Lough in fourth place overall. The Class Two winner was Tom Shanahan's J109, Ruth from the National Yacht Club in eighth place in the 13-boat fleet.
The Class Two winner of Saturday's ISORA classic race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire via Rockabill was Tom Shanahan's National Yacht Club J109, Ruth from Dun Laoghaire Photo: Afloat
As Afloat reported earlier, despite the absence of some top Dublin Bay performers, the fixture still provided a strong test in the last offshore fixture before the season highlight of the 700-mile Round Ireland Race in less than a fortnight.
Full results below
