After four races at the 2017 Dragon South Coast Championship, locals Cameron Good, Henry Kingston and Simon Furney have the overall lead from Royal St. George's David Williams and Peter Bowring writes Bob Bateman.
See results and photo gallery below.
The Dublin Bay boat has the same eight points as the Kinsale Yacht Club leader but double wins today gives Good the advantage in the nine–boat fleet.
Kinsale boat Shawn Kingston's Grey Hare is third and another Kinsale entry, Adrian Bendon's Mar J is fourth.
This morning's racing schedule was put forward to 11am due to a wet windy forecast but it turned out to be light winds on the way out to the first start at the Old Head of Kinsale. Winds were not long in filling in, however, and 15 /18 knots from west–south–west and a lumpy sea produced classic Kinsale conditions.
Williams' Phantom led at the first windward mark but a gybe set from Good proved to be winning move as got into the lead and held on til the finish.
Racing continues tomorrow. The Race Officer is Kinsale's own Alan Crosbie.
Dragon South Coast Championship after four races
1 | IRL211 | Little Fella | Cameron Good | Henry Kingston | Simon Furney | KYC | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | IRL176 | Phantom | David Williams | Peter Bowring/Hilary Murray | Arthur Mehigan/Conor Grimley | RStGYC | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
3 | IRL188 | Grey Hare | Shawn Kingston | Tony Kingston | Harry Lewis | KYC | 15 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
4 | IRL156 | Mar J | Adrian Bendon | Choryna Kiely | Matthew Beecher | KYC | 18 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
5 | IRL201 | Jaguar | Martin Byrne | Conor Byrne | Adam Winkelman | RStGYC | 20 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
6 | IRL695 | Magic | Warren Brown/Kevin Hayes | Killian Murphy | Clare Hayes/Eamonn Timoney | GHYC | 22 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
7 | IRL180 | Serafina | Maeve Cotter | Daniel Murphy | Brian Goggin | KYC | 24 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
8 | IRL110 | Aphrodite | Peter Hayes | Tiernan Brown | Killian Forde/Ruairi Brown | GHYC | 31 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
9 | IRL157 | Tenacious | Anthony O'Neill | Dave Horgan | Eoghan O'Neill | KYC | 36 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 10 |