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Sailing to Success at Kinsale Optimist Trials

11th April 2011
Sailing to Success at Kinsale Optimist Trials

Fourteen year old Dun Laoghaire sailor Sean Donnelly was in top form sailing off Kinsale yesterday (SCROLL down for Photos by Bob Bateman) to win four of eight races in the first leg of the 2011 Optimist dinghy sailing trials. All races were completed to schedule. Top ten results below from IODAI.

1 1438 Senior Sean Donnelly M 14 NYC 10 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 6
2 1368 Senior Sophie Browne F 14 TBSC/RCYC 22.71 5 7 1 4 4 1 3.71 4
3 1440 Senior Harry Whitaker M 14 RCYC 31 2 1 13 2 2 7 4 15
4 1441 Senior Eoin Lyden M 14 RCYC/BSC 44.29 10 8 5 6 14 3 7.29 5
5 1439 Senior Peter McCann M 14 RCYC 48 3 3 9 5 10 12 6 12
6 1442 Senior Cliodhna Ni Shuilleabhain F 13 KYC 56 4 10 10 17 17 5 8 2
7 1433 Senior Jil McGinley F 14 RCYC 59 8 11 8 9 19 4 11 8
8 1411 Junior Ronan Cournane M 12 RCYC/KYC 64 7 12 4 15 12 20 3 11
9 1315 Senior Fergus Flood M 13 HYC 68 9 48 18 10 18 8 2 3
10 1437 Senior Sean WADDILOVE M 14 SSC/HYC 85

 

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