Tight Battle for National Squib Keelboat Title in Weymouth

29th June 2023

Tom Jeffcoate and Mark Hogan in ‘Ric-O-Shea' win race seven at the National Squib Keelboat Championships in Weymouth Credit: Christine Boyd

Race seven of the National Squib Keelboat Championships in Weymouth was in total contrast to the previous races.

The wind blew off the shore between 4 and 12 knots and shifted to sixty degrees.

Of the 65 competitors, Ireland's ‘Femme Fatale’ with Vincent Delany and Joe O’Byrne rounded the first windward mark in about 8th place. But missed a few of the shifts over three laps of the 1.2-mile beats and finished in 16th place at the end of the 90-minute race.

Kinsale's Ian Travers and Keith O’Riordan in ‘Outlaw’ handled the unstable wind with panache, finishing in 14th place.

‘Volante’ from Killyleagh finished in 35th place while ‘Slipstream’ took 40th place.

Overall there is a tight battle between Jono Browne in ‘Two Counts’, who has used up all his discards and Tom Jeffcoate and Mark Hogan in ‘Ric-O-Shea’, who are six points behind.

Friday will be the last race of the Squib Keelboat championship in Weymouth.

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