Kinsale Yacht Club in County Cork is welcoming 62 International Dragon Teams, representing 14 countries and four continents from across the globe, to compete in the 80th Dragon Gold Cup, which gets Cork underway with a practice race on Saturday, September 7.
As Afloat reported previously, it will be the largest gathering of the Dragon fleet since the Covid pandemic.
Championship racing will run from Sunday, 8 to Friday, 13 September, with six races scheduled.
All the top international teams will be competing including reigning Dragon Gold Cup Champion and British Olympian Lawrie Smith, who will be racing for Glandore Yacht Club, Dragon International Ranking leader and reigning World and European Champion Wolf Waschkuhn from Switzerland, Australian Match Racing legend Peter Gilmour with his Japanese Yanmar team, France’s offshore maestro Gery Trentesaux, Portugal’s 2019 Gold Cup winner Pedro Rebelo de Andrade, and three times Dragon World Champion and British Olympian Andy Beadsworth, helming the Turkish entry Provezza.