#VDLR2013 – Saturday's first race of the day saw a number of leader changes and lots of place swapping before the race was finished - with a win for Brian Byrne & Stephen Campion writes Cormac Bradley. The lead changed four times before the finish, the other holders of the lead being Team Clancy - Connor & James.
Behind them the three red-spinnakered boats of Louise McKenna & Francis Rowan, Frank Miller & Grattan Donnelly and Neil Colin & Margaret Casey had their own "ding-dong" race with place swapping aplenty.
An inner loop trapezoid of two laps was set for the Fireballs who worked the middle and left of the course for the beats. The second beat saw most change with Colin/Casey playing their get out of jail card on the second beat. McKenna/Rowan played the same card on the offwind legs of the trapezoid to finish 3rd, up from fifth at the last weather mark.
Conditions from my shore vantage point looked light with no serious trapezing evident.
R6: Byrne, Clancy, McKenna, Miller, Colin, Doyle, Chambers, Sinnott/Hyland.
Byrne leapfrogs Miller to 2nd but Clancy's margin stays at 7pts.
