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16th May 2011

SB3 Worlds Day One: Collins Leads Irish Hopes at Torbay Worlds

SB3 Worlds Day One: Collins Leads Irish Hopes at Torbay Worlds

Royal Cork Yacht Club's Mel Collins is top Irish boat in 24th place after the first days racing of the 2011 SB3 World Championships in Torbay. Scroll down for pics and Video.

Collins Finishes 11th Overall.  Results here

Collins scored 18, 8, 21 to be in the top quarter of the fleet, two points ahead of Irish East Coast Champion Ben Duncan who is sailing for his native New Zealand. The next Irish boat is Howth's Paul McMahon in 46th with Irish placings also in 47th, 48th and 49th. Full Results below.

The 103 boat fleet of Laser SB3's left Torquay Harbour this morning for the first three races. Split into 2 fleets, Orange and Yellow, the fleet lined up for the first scheduled race at 11.00 am. The Race Committee, on both courses, managed to get both fleets underway exactly to schedule. Impressive.

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On the Yellow course, Robert Greenhalgh (GBR) showed his talent early on. Notching up a 1, 2, 1 on day one of a World Championships is a score card anyone would be proud of. Peter Saxton (GBR) won the first race on the Orange course and followed up with a 5, 2 placing him second overall overnight on day 1.

Nathan Outteridge (AUS) collected bowman Tom Slingsby (AUS) from the airport at 1am this morning, but lack of sleep and time on the water as a crew did little to dampen his crew's performance. "This is my first day on bow ever! There's a bit on when you get to the bottom mark" smiled Slingsby after completing the first race of the Championships, and their first race ever as a team with fellow Aussie Ian Brown.

The Orange course suffered 2 general recalls as the Race Committee tried to get the second race of the day away. Not deterred by the delay, Glenn Bourke (AUS) dominated the race, extending his lead on each leg. Chatting to Glenn last night he claimed to be "rusty", but today he posted 5, 1, 11 on the score sheet. "More time in the boat will help us iron out some of our creases, but to take a win on the first day of an event like this always makes you feel good!"

2010 Laser SB3 World Champion Jerry Hill (GBR) had a difficult day to start the event. Sailing on the Orange course the 3 Sad Old Blokes struggled in the first race, finishing in 25th position. After starting deep in the second race, they picked their way back to a respectable 9th and despite damage, finished 6th in the third race of the day. "It was hard today, really hard," explained Hill before disappearing to repair his boat.

Joe Llewellyn (GBR) grew up sailing in Tor Bay, and finished the first day of the Zhik SB3 World Championships with a win on the Orange course. Chatting to Joe in the bar of the Royal Torbay Yacht Club after racing he explained, "It was hard conditions today and we had a bad second race. We had some luck in the third race, we benefitted from some of the shifts and we won!" Joe recently became a father again, this time to twins, "I'm looking forward to another sleepless night tonight, and another day on the water tomorrow!"

Three further races are scheduled for Tuesday 17th May. The fleet is slit again, simply by their odd or even overall position at the end of the first day of racing, for the final day of qualifying races.

Series PlaceSail NoBow NoBoatHelmSeries PointsRace 1ARace 1BRace 2ARace 2BRace 3ARace 3B
1 GBR3489 19 Red Robert Greenhalgh 4 1 2 1
2 GBR3065 65 Rola-Trac Peter Saxton 8 1 5 2
3 GBR3042 54 Gill Racing Team Craig Burton 9 4 3 2
4 AUS3063 32 One Design Sailing Nathan Outteridge 13 6 4 3
5 GBR3053 111 Geoff Carveth 15 4 2 9
6 GBR3032 92 David Cummins 16 3 8 5
7 AUS3108 70 Club Marine Glenn Bourke 17 5 1 11
8 RSA3469 49 Asenaithi Jim 17 3 4 10
9 GBR3082 68 Joe Llewellyn 20 6 13 1
10 GBR3058 15 John Pollard 22 2 6 14
11 NED3441 17 Rivium Paul Gast 22 9 5 8
12 GBR3475 57 Perky III Jez Entwistle 23 12 6 5
13 ITA3073 39 Stenghele Roberto Caresani 24 2 3 19
14 GER3561 86 Razzmatazz Sebastian Dohrendorf 26 12 7 7
15 GBR3462 58 Underground Toys Andrew Oddie 30 19 1 10
16 GBR3134 84 Marilyn Dom Ford 32 5 18 9
17 GBR3198 80 Magic Marine Hugh Styles 34 15 12 7
18 GBR3047 95 Parkway Pirates Rob Gullan 35 9 14 12
19 GBR3546 98 Orthteam Richard Catchpole 38 7 18 13
20 GBR3149 16 Poor Buoy Mark Gillett 39 17 16 6
21 GBR3465 26 3 Sad Old Blokes Jerry Hill 40 25 9 6
22 GBR3336 8 Uber 3 Adrian Peach 41 8 15 18
23 GBR3027 63 Darling Associates Chris Darling 44 10 11 23
24 IRL3324 22 Sibelus Mel Collins 46 17 8 21
25 NZL3287 36 Sailing West - Sharkbait Ben Duncan 48 16 28 4
26 GBR3029 44 3-Some Niall Peelo 49 11 16 22
27 GBR3517 75 Doolalli Colin Simonds 49 18 19 12
28 GBR3276 89 Trouble & Strife Ian Armstrong 50 11 20 19
29 GBR3464 5 Eric Martin Wedge 50 15 13 22
30 GBR3556 69 Herbie Phil Tilley 51 7 29 15
31 GER3402 21 Norah Daniel Spaenle 51 14 17 20
32 ITA3543 101 Bravi Thytronic Giovanni Meloni 52 23 12 17
33 GBR3305 55 Rigging Gurus Mark Richards 54 26 25 3
34 GBR3575 56 Sailboat Deliveries Sarah Allan 54 29 9 16
35 UKR3443 78 Transbunker Polovy Valeriy 54 27 14 13
36 GBR3510 52 Hutton's Richard Wharram 56 21 10 25
37 GBR3041 67 Robina Dan Goodman 58 16 24 18
38 AUS3607 104 Wysiwyg VI Stephen Fries 63 22 10 31
39 RUS373 106 Alissa Vladislav Ivanovski 63 29 20 14
40 GBR3079 116 Excuse Me Gents Ann Jackson 64 19 37 8
41 RUS3554 109 Team Russia Rodion Luka 65 8 53 4
42 GBR3183 30 Respect John Danby 67 33 11 23
43 GBR3014 61 Sponge Bob Steve McLean 69 13 22 34
44 FRA3078 115 Tad Minus Vincent Biarnes 69 28 17 24
45 BEL3472 35 Los Zaparteros Alex Schoenmakers 71 14 21 36
46 IRL3226 112 Quantitative Easing Paul McMahon 76 35 30 11
47 IRL3312 91 Bomchickawahwah John O'Driscoll 77 32 30 15
48 IRL3338 59 Milvus Milvus Robert Howe 77 30 21 26
49 IRL3298 64 Toucan 3 Ross Vaughan 79 43 19 17
50 GBR3084 1 Eau No! Mark Sotkes 80 20 34 26
51 ITA3596 99 Briefing Luca Bacci 83 39 24 20
52 GBR3468 60 Fully Badgered Paul Lovejoy 84 10 32 42
53 GBR3126 102 Geronimo Simon Hume 86 28 23 35
54 GBR3106 37 Tom Clay 87 21 29 37
55 ITA3606 114 Lunatico XS Aurelio Bini 88 20 15 53
56 GBR3292 93 Chill Pill Tich Summers 89 41 7 41
57 GBR3060 73 Finitor 7 Stewart Reed 89 35 26 28
58 NED3511 29 Marco van Driel 90 32 26 32
59 GBR3362 47 Polar Bear Tim Newton 92 34 42 16
60 GBR3379 27 Joyride Nick Andrews 92 18 23 51
61 IRL3307 31 Bad/Kilcullen Stephan Hyde 92 36 22 34
62 GBR3545 71 Savage Sailing Team Chris Savage 92 31 32 29
63 FRA3423 76 Morpheus Edward Russo 93 37 31 25
64 GBR3038 119 TeamB4Ego,com2 Will Brooks 95 13 40 42
65 GBR3021 51 Here Comes Bod Charlie Whelan 95 44 27 24
66 GBR3074 3 Tonic Douglas Paton 95 27 33 35
67 FRA3609 2 Marcon Yachting Louis Marcon 97 34 25 38
68 GBR3516 14 TeamB4Ego.com Geoff Gritton 97 25 36 36
69 GBR3515 108 The Young Pretender Callum Calder 98 24 53 21
70 GBR3215 79 Sail Navy Darren Roach 98 24 27 47
71 GBR3267 77 Neilson Heart of Gold Tom Hayhoe 99 22 47 30
72 GER3600 13 Isabella III Reinhard Schroeder 99 23 46 30
73 IRL3484 33 Seriously Bonkers x 3 Martin Cuppage 103 26 44 33
74 GBR3319 12 Devils Advocate Tony Jaffa 103 43 33 27
75 GBR3081 9 Prostate Cancer Charity Ross Lang 107 36 28 43
76 GBR3335 24 Royal Signals Stu Southan 108 31 38 39
77 POR3103 48 Viero Piedade Colaco 110 38 45 27
78 GBR3069 66 Not just a number Paul Hine 110 42 37 31
79 GBR3104 74 Retail Therapy Charles Sheppard 111 40 38 33
80 GBR3056 100 Woohoo Tom Davidson 114 45 41 28
81 GBR3088 6 Healthy1.co.uk Ray Davies 114 40 34 40
82 ITA3598 96 Alghero Giorico Hotels Alessandro Balzani 115 38 35 42
83 GBR3096 72 Red Kite Roger Harford 116 30 47 39
84 AUS3224 28 Jester 3 Dave Bull 118 50 31 37
85 GBR3048 23 Control-Alt-Delete Ann Ashworth 120 33 44 43
86 GBR3094 20 Xceptable Ian Lievesley 123 52 39 32
87 UKR3522 41 Stemcor Valentin Klymentyev 125 46 35 44
88 ITA3437 53 Lupi D'irlanda Marco Sorgassi 125 39 42 44
89 IRL3062 40 Ronan Downing 131 37 49 45
90 GBR3531 87 Carnage Nick Over 132 44 50 38
91 GBR3077 88 Skallywag Rob Day 132 46 40 46
92 GBR3519 107 May contain nuts John Greenaway 133 41 43 49
93 NED3470 82 Cube Martijn Buitenhuis 134 42 43 49
94 GBR3309 43 Narwhal David Bates 135 51 36 48
95 IRL3297 90 Sunday Brunch Richard Tate 136 49 46 41
96 GBR3473 85 Sceptre Nathan Bailey 138 50 48 40
97 GBR3366 11 Hooligan Guy Broom 138 47 41 50
98 IRL3033 34 Blue Bird Cathy MacAleavey 139 47 39 53
99 GRE3251 105 SailingHolidays.com Ruairi Bradley 140 45 49 46
100 GBR3540 46 Water Music viii Jonny Foot 143 51 45 47
101 GBR3368 45 Kapow Nick Barnett 144 48 48 48
102 GBR3123 4 Mini Mayhem Paul Craft 146 48 53 45
103 IRL3315 42 Sirius Black Ken Hudson 152 49 51 52
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Howth Yacht Club information

Howth Yacht Club is the largest members sailing club in Ireland, with over 1,700 members. The club welcomes inquiries about membership - see top of this page for contact details.

Howth Yacht Club (HYC) is 125 years old. It operates from its award-winning building overlooking Howth Harbour that houses office, bar, dining, and changing facilities. Apart from the Clubhouse, HYC has a 250-berth marina, two cranes and a boat storage area. In addition. its moorings in the harbour are serviced by launch.

The Club employs up to 31 staff during the summer and is the largest employer in Howth village and has a turnover of €2.2m.

HYC normally provides an annual programme of club racing on a year-round basis as well as hosting a full calendar of International, National and Regional competitive events. It operates a fleet of two large committee boats, 9 RIBs, 5 J80 Sportboats, a J24 and a variety of sailing dinghies that are available for members and training. The Club is also growing its commercial activities afloat using its QUEST sail and power boat training operation while ashore it hosts a wide range of functions each year, including conferences, weddings, parties and the like.

Howth Yacht Club originated as Howth Sailing Club in 1895. In 1968 Howth Sailing Club combined with Howth Motor Yacht Club, which had operated from the West Pier since 1935, to form Howth Yacht Club. The new clubhouse was opened in 1987 with further extensions carried out and more planned for the future including dredging and expanded marina facilities.

HYC caters for sailors of all ages and run sailing courses throughout the year as part of being an Irish Sailing accredited training facility with its own sailing school.

The club has a fully serviced marina with berthing for 250 yachts and HYC is delighted to be able to welcome visitors to this famous and scenic area of Dublin.

New applications for membership are always welcome

Howth Yacht Club FAQs

Howth Yacht Club is one of the most storied in Ireland — celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2020 — and has an active club sailing and racing scene to rival those of the Dun Laoghaire Waterfront Clubs on the other side of Dublin Bay.

Howth Yacht Club is based at the harbour of Howth, a suburban coastal village in north Co Dublin on the northern side of the Howth Head peninsula. The village is around 13km east-north-east of Dublin city centre and has a population of some 8,200.

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Howth Yacht Club was founded as Howth Sailing Club in 1895. Howth Sailing Club later combined with Howth Motor Yacht Club, which had operated from the village’s West Pier since 1935, to form Howth Yacht Club.

The club organises and runs sailing events and courses for members and visitors all throughout the year and has very active keelboat and dinghy racing fleets. In addition, Howth Yacht Club prides itself as being a world-class international sailing event venue and hosts many National, European and World Championships as part of its busy annual sailing schedule.

As of November 2020, the Commodore of the Royal St George Yacht Club is Ian Byrne, with Paddy Judge as Vice-Commodore (Clubhouse and Administration). The club has two Rear-Commodores, Neil Murphy for Sailing and Sara Lacy for Junior Sailing, Training & Development.

Howth Yacht Club says it has one of the largest sailing memberships in Ireland and the UK; an exact number could not be confirmed as of November 2020.

Howth Yacht Club’s burgee is a vertical-banded pennant of red, white and red with a red anchor at its centre. The club’s ensign has a blue-grey field with the Irish tricolour in its top left corner and red anchor towards the bottom right corner.

The club organises and runs sailing events and courses for members and visitors all throughout the year and has very active keelboat and dinghy racing fleets. In addition, Howth Yacht Club prides itself as being a world-class international sailing event venue and hosts many National, European and World Championships as part of its busy annual sailing schedule.

Yes, Howth Yacht Club has an active junior section.

Yes, Howth Yacht Club hosts sailing and powerboat training for adults, juniors and corporate sailing under the Quest Howth brand.

Among its active keelboat and dinghy fleets, Howth Yacht Club is famous for being the home of the world’s oldest one-design racing keelboat class, the Howth Seventeen Footer. This still-thriving class of boat was designed by Walter Herbert Boyd in 1897 to be sailed in the local waters off Howth. The original five ‘gaff-rigged topsail’ boats that came to the harbour in the spring of 1898 are still raced hard from April until November every year along with the other 13 historical boats of this class.

Yes, Howth Yacht Club has a fleet of five J80 keelboats for charter by members for training, racing, organised events and day sailing.

The current modern clubhouse was the product of a design competition that was run in conjunction with the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland in 1983. The winning design by architects Vincent Fitzgerald and Reg Chandler was built and completed in March 1987. Further extensions have since been made to the building, grounds and its own secure 250-berth marina.

Yes, the Howth Yacht Club clubhouse offers a full bar and lounge, snug bar and coffee bar as well as a 180-seat dining room. Currently, the bar is closed due to Covid-19 restrictions. Catering remains available on weekends, take-home and delivery menus for Saturday night tapas and Sunday lunch.

The Howth Yacht Club office is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm. Contact the club for current restaurant opening hours at [email protected] or phone 01 832 0606.

Yes — when hosting sailing events, club racing, coaching and sailing courses, entertaining guests and running evening entertainment, tuition and talks, the club caters for all sorts of corporate, family and social occasions with a wide range of meeting, event and function rooms. For enquiries contact [email protected] or phone 01 832 2141.

Howth Yacht Club has various categories of membership, each affording the opportunity to avail of all the facilities at one of Ireland’s finest sailing clubs.

No — members can join active crews taking part in club keelboat and open sailing events, not to mention Pay & Sail J80 racing, charter sailing and more.

Fees range from €190 to €885 for ordinary members.
Memberships are renewed annually.
Tel: 01 832 2141 or [email protected]

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