Royal Cork's Durcan Lying Tenth at U21 Laser Europeans

23rd August 2018

Johnny Durcan is in tenth place at the U21 Europeans

Royal Cork's Johnny Durcan marked his return to the Laser class with some 'great downwind speed and front row starts' to record the best daily score of anyone in the fleet with a first and sixth at the U21 European Championships in Sweden yesterday.

Yesterday was the first day of the final series and after a short wait in the morning, for the wind to drop below 25 knots, Durcan was back in the fray, and up into 10th place.

Points across the top 20 are still really close so it’s all to play for with four more Gold fleet races to go.

Meanwhile, in County Tipperary, the first races of the Laser National Championships gets underway this morning on Lough Derg. Read our preview here.

After the Swedish event concludes this weekend, Durcan is off to the 49er Junior Worlds in France to crew for Sean Donnelly.

Results are here

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The ILCA, formerly known as the Laser, is the most produced boat in the world, with 220,000 units built since 1971.

It's easy to see why the single-handed dinghy has won the title of the most widely distributed boat of all time.

The Laser is a one-design dinghy, the hulls being identical but three rigs that can be used according to the size and weight of the sailor.

The class is international, with sailors from 120 countries. The boat has also been an Olympic class since 1996, being both the men's and women's singlehanded dinghy.

Three rigs are recognised by the International Laser Class Association (ILCA):