Strangford Lough's Stuart Cranston in the Bolero prototype Purple Haze was the top Irish performer in this week's Quarter Ton Cup in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
Sam Laidlaw's Aguila won the seven-race event with four wins on 7.5 points from Ian Southworth's Protis on 12.5.
Three Irish competed in the 16-boat fleet, with Cranston finishing eighth. Martin Mahon's Courtown Sailing Club Snoopy, a two-time ICRA champion that placed third at last year's Cup in Cork, finished ninth and second Corinthian boat.
Cove Sailing Club's Illegal, sailed by Kieran Dorgan, Richard Marshall, Dominic Losty and Jason Losty, who finished second overall at the 2023 Cup and is the current Corinthian champion, was 13th after suffering a retiral in race five and not competing in the remaining two races.