Rockabill VI Among Yachts To Contest First ISORA Coastal Race off Dun Laoghaire

30th March 2025

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Rockabill VI, the 2023 champion, will race in the first ISORA coastal event of the 2025 season, next Saturday, April 5th, at 10 am off Dun Laoghaire Harbour Credit: Afloat

The 2023 ISORA champion Rockabill VI, skippered by Paul O'Higgins, will be among the starters in the first coastal race of the 2025 season next Saturday (April 5th) at 10 am off Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

A three-hour fixture is expected in the first of the Musto coastal series for the Vincent Farrell Trophy, consisting of three races in April and culminating in a final night race in August.

As Afloat reported earlier, among the confirmed boats are two J109s, the defending ISORA Musto champion Ruth, skippered by Tom Shanahan from Dun Laoghaire and Simon Knowles's Indian from Howth.

Paul O'Higgins' 2023 championship-winning JPK10.80 Rockabill VI from the Royal Irish Yacht Club will again be challenged by a smaller JPK 10.30. Coquine, a JPK 1030 design from the JPK yard in France – a not-so-little sister – to the O'Higgins' vessel, will join the ISORA fray again from Belfast Lough under skipper Alan Hannon.

Also returning is the 2024 Inistearaght Race champion, Chris Power Smith's J122 Aurelia from the Royal St. George Yacht Club.

David Simpson's Albirero will not compete as work on the yacht is behind schedule.

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