Kinsale Yacht Club’s Cameron Good has won the Cantor Fitzgerald Irish South Coast Dragon Championships 2026, completing a six-race series at Kinsale with a two-point victory.
Good’s Little Fella (IRL 211), crewed by Simon Furney and Donal Small, went into Sunday’s finale with a two-point lead and secured the title with a second place in the sixth and final race.
With one discard applied, Little Fella finished on 10 points from Daniel Murphy’s Whisper on 12, with Royal Irish Yacht Club’s Joey Bergin taking third aboard Ossis of the River on 13.
Murphy Wins Finale to Take Second
Murphy, sailing Whisper with Sean Murphy and Harry Lewis, produced the strongest challenge to Good on the final day.
Victory in Race 6, added to wins in Races 2 and 4, lifted the Kinsale crew from fourth overnight to second overall.
But Good’s second place was enough to protect Little Fella’s championship lead.
The winners had laid the foundations for their victory on Friday, opening the championship with a 1-2-1 sequence. Although fourth and fifth places on Saturday allowed their rivals to close the gap, Little Fella never surrendered the overall lead.
Good, Furney and Small finished the championship with scores of 1-2-1-4-(5)-2, giving them 10 points after discard.
Bergin Takes Third for Royal Irish
Joey Bergin’s Ossis of the River completed a strong championship with third place in the final race.
Sailing with J Murphy, R Geraghty-McDonnell and T Bolger, the Royal Irish YC entry counted 4-2-2-2-3 to finish just one point behind Whisper on 13.
Saturday’s Race 5 winner Phantom, sailed by Royal St George YC’s Neil Hegarty and Charlie Bolger, had started the final day second overall and only two points off the lead.
A seventh in the finale became Phantom’s discard, but the Dublin Bay pair slipped to fourth overall on 14 points — leaving just four points separating the championship’s top four.
Kinsale Takes Top Two
James Matthews’ Kinsale YC TBD finished fifth on 21 points, one ahead of the Royal St George’s Vela in sixth.
The championship victory completed a strong home-club showing, with Kinsale Yacht Club taking the top two places through Little Fella and Whisper.
The six-race championship was organised by Kinsale Yacht Club in conjunction with the Irish Dragon Association.
The results were listed as provisional at 15:39 on Sunday, September 13th.
Provisional top three: Cameron Good, Simon Furney and Donal Small (Little Fella, Kinsale YC) 10 points; Daniel Murphy, Sean Murphy and Harry Lewis (Whisper, Kinsale YC) 12; Joey Bergin, J Murphy, R Geraghty-McDonnell and T Bolger (Ossis of the River, Royal Irish YC) 13.
