With 50 days to go to the start, Kinsale Yacht Club in West Cork has opened the online entry for its inaugural Inishtearaght Race.
The new Irish offshore fixture race will take place on Friday, 20th May with a first starting gun at 08:55 hrs.
"We are confident this race will become a regular feature in the offshore racing calendar, we are planning to run the race every second year", Honorary KYC Sailing Secretary Michele Kennelly told Afloat.
Inishtearaght is the westernmost of the Blasket Islands pictured below and hence the westernmost island of Ireland Credits: via Wikipedia
The race will take the fleet along the coast of West Cork and Kerry, around Inishtearaght and return to finish in Kinsale.
The starting times are planned so that boats would stand the best chance of rounding the island in daylight.
As Afloat reported previously, the race was formally launched last December by KYC Commodore Matthias Hellstern. The first race will be sponsored by Matthews of Cork.
The course will be approximately 240nm long and will run along the spectacular coast of West Cork and Kerry, round Inistearaght and back to Kinsale.
