National 18 Wins Cove Sailing Club's 2025 Ballinacurra Cup

12th May 2025

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Peter O'Donovan's National 18 won Cove Sailing Club's 2025 handicap Ballinacurra Cup Credit: Bob Bateman

Peter O'Donovan's National 18 won Cove Sailing Club's 2025 handicap Ballinacurra Cup, raced for by a fleet of 20 dinghies over the weekend.

O'Donovan finished with a corrected time of one hour, four minutes, and 38 seconds, over a minute ahead of Ronan Kenneally, who was second, also sailing an N18. Third was Owen O'Connell's Rankin.

The Cup race from Cobh to the North/East corner of Cork Harbour, once a major port for the old sailing ships, was sailed on Saturday, May 10.

As Afloat reported earlier, the race's top prize is one of the country's oldest "All-In" dinghy racing handicap trophies.

The race brought sailors to the famous pub in Ballinacurra Village for the prizegiving - Creenan's – home of Jacko Creenan, where the family had owned the Brooklands, Ireland's last engineless freight-carrying schooner.

2025 Ballinacurra Cup results

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