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#TeamRacing - Schull Sharks have been crowned British Schools Team Racing Champions for the third time in a row at the BSDRA Nationals at Rutland earlier this week.
Twenty-two teams took part at this year's nationals from 30 June to 2 July, which were held at Rutland Water for the first time.
Light airs were the name of the game for most of the event, with huge shifts and periods with no wind at all, but for the finals a nice 10 to 15 knots filled in from the north-east.
Irish Team Racing Nationals champs Schull Sharks, along with two teams from Florida in the USA and a team from Berlin, Germany, made up the international entries.
The West Cork sailors' first race was a lottery start to the event, which took three times longer than normal to complete due to the lack of wind.
Winchester College just won at the finish, but this was the last race Schull didn't take, as they went on to win their group and progress to the finals.
Schull were up against the USA in the semi-finals, where they won all three races and progressed to the final against the UK favourite Magdalen College, where again they won all three races.
