#1720 – After two days of racing at the CH Marine 1720 National Championships and six races sailed the leader on 10 pts is Terry English and Mark Mansfield's Gut Rot crewed by Mike Budd, Bernard Fitzpatrick and Joe Bruen writes Claire Bateman.
Lying second is Anthony O'Leary's Wet n' Black crewed by Dan O'Grady, Derick Moynan, Eoin Leahy and David Whitaker. The Holyhead SC Ricochet of Steve, George and Tom Forester-Cole with Hannah Peters, Kelvin Matthews and Mark Lees in third place being very competitive and taking wins in two of the six races despite sailing in unfamiliar waters.
On a day when the weather was suited for sun hats and sun cream the wind much more benign with a steady southerly breeze 7 to 8 kts occasionally going to 10 to 11 kts PRO John Moynihan was able to set windward leeward courses a mile east of Roche's Point and got in four excellent races on the day.
At the conclusion of Race Six today the Racce Officer had an unenviable task when six of the flying 1720s bore down on the finish line, within seconds of one another in a tightly knit bunch more like the start than a finish of a race. Some spectacle to watch.
