29er Skiff Youths Win Royal Cork's PY1000 Dinghy Race (Photo Gallery)

20th June 2021

Bob Bateman

29er skiff duo, James Dwyer and Oisin MacSweeney were the winners of the RCYC PY1000 dinghy race. Scroll down for photo gallery Credit: Boat Bateman

Essentially a river race starting opposite the Royal Cork Yacht Club, 2021's PY1000 dinghy event was won by 29er skiff duo, James Dwyer and Oisin MacSweeney.

Race Officer Anthony O'Leary set a windward-leeward course over ten rounds on Crosshaven's Owenabue river. A fleet of 25 dinghies competed.

Second in the handicap race was Laser Radial single-hander, Jonathan O'Shaughnessy. Third was National 18 trio Charles Dwyer, Harry Pritchard and John Coakley.

Megan O'Sullivan was awarded at the prize giving for both, first girl and youngest sailor in her Laser 4.7 (6th overall).

Scroll down for a photo gallery of the event below by Bob Bateman.

Laser Radial single-hander, Jonathan O'Shaughnessy (Sail number 189211) was runner up in the 2021 PY race Photo: Bob Bateman

National 18 trio Charles Dwyer, Harry Pritchard and John Coakley were third overall in the PY1000

Results are here

2021 PY 1000 photo gallery by Bob Bateman

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About the 29er Skiff Dinghy

The 29er is a one-design double-handed, single trapeze skiff for youth sailors.

There is an active class in Ireland, just one of the 38-countries from across all continents now racing the high-performance skiff.

The 29er is one of the latest dinghy classes to arrive in Ireland and has a 50/50 split between boys and girls.

The class like to describe the boat as "The most popular skiff for sailors who want to go fast!".

Derived from the Olympic class 49er class and designed by Julian Bethwaite the 29er was first produced in 1998.

Two sailors sail the 29er, one on trapeze.

The class is targeted at youth sailors aiming at sailing the larger 49er which is an Olympic class.

The 6.25-metre high rig features a fractional asymmetrical spinnaker; a self-tacking jib decreases the workload of the crew, making manoeuvres more efficient and freeing the crew to take the mainsheet upwind and on two-sail reaches.

The 15.00 m2 spinnaker rigging set-up challenges crews to be fit and coordinated, and manoeuvres in the boat require athleticism due to its lack of inherent stability and the high speed with which the fully battened mainsail and jib power up.

The 74kg weight hull is constructed of fibreglass-reinforced polyester in a foam sandwich layout.

The fully battened mainsail and jib are made from a transparent Mylar laminate with orange or red Dacron trimming, while the spinnaker is manufactured from ripstop Nylon.

The mast is in three parts - an aluminium bottom and middle section, with a polyester-fibreglass composite tip to increase mast bend and decrease both overall weights, and the capsizing moment a heavy mast tip can generate. Foils are aluminium or fibreglass.