#sb20 – What a difference a day makes.  Lying 8th overall coming into day 2 of the SB20 Easterns at Howth Yacht Club, Aidan O'Connell and team on Ruby Blue from the Royal St George YC set the marker today in the waters off Howth to take the title off Ben Duncan's Sharkbait by a two point margin.  Duncan only managed to score a 10th, 5th and an 8th today whilst O'Connell gave a master class in consistency scoring a race win and two 4th places.  O'Connell's remarkable comeback started in the first race with a bullet and a considerable distance over the fleet whilst in race 2 & 3 Aidan hung in with enough points in the bag to allow him discard his 16th from day 1.

A full set of SB20 East Coast Championships results are available to download below as an Xcel file.

Winds were from the west and blustery all day giving the crews some testing shifts to contend with.  In race 1 with 60 seconds to go before the start,  PRO Harry Gallagher wisely decided to fly the AP rather than allow a 30 degree shift interrupt the proceedings.  The consistent shift seemed to stay in the right and Harry and his team reset the course accordingly.    Boats were pressed on the beat but revelled in the brisk downwind legs with speeds up to 13 knots in the moderate conditions.

Third place goes to John O'Driscoll also from the Royal St George YC on-board Boomchicawahwah who sailed equally consistently for the weekend.   John and his team scored a 3.0 and 5.0 discarding his 11th today.  Third place was tied for points with Kieran Dorgan from Cobh Sailing Club but as O'Driscoll had scored a race win on day 1 he took the final podium place.

Daragh Sheridan on Dingy Supplies finished the day with a sparkling race win in race 3.  Any of the lead boats who got enough of a chance extended their leads and Dingy Supplies did this in style.  Dingy Supplies kindly sponsored some spot prizes for the fleet also.

In the Silver fleet, overnight leader Gillian Guinness was pipped to the post by Davy Taylor's Boatmec.com.