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Howth Yacht Club Optimist Sailors Rocco & Sienna Wright Strike Again Down Under

22nd December 2019
Howth Yacht Club's Sienna and Rocco Wright with their trophies in Sydney Howth Yacht Club's Sienna and Rocco Wright with their trophies in Sydney

Howth Yacht Club Optimist dinghy siblings Sienna and Rocco Wright have struck again Down Under!

This time the pair won their respective divisions in Sydney's Optimist Regatta with an extraordinary string of first places in each of their divisions over the past three days. Results here

As Afloat reported earlier this month, Optimist ace Rocco won the 2019 Sail Sydney Optimist Open Championships on December 14.

Next stop is the Australian National Championships which begins on Jan 2nd. 

In what is turning into epic sailing trip for the Wrights, the children's father Darren is the skipper of the Howth Yacht Club entry in the Sydney Hobart offshore Race that starts this St. Stephen's Day. More on that here.

Published in Optimist, Howth YC
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