Conditions were tough for dinghy sailors in Monkstown Bay in Cork Harbour on Saturday, the final day of the club’s October Dinghy League, with strong, gusty winds and heavy, driving rain showers.
The Race Committee decided conditions were too strong for Class 2, so racing for the smaller dinghies was cancelled. After a postponement, six of the senior sailors in Class 1 got in a race to close the season for Class 1.
The determined group of five Lasers and a 505 battled the challenging conditions. Ewen Barry and John Coakley, sailing the 505, won the race, the seventh of the series and won the league overall. Second was Daniel Mallon in a Laser Radial, who also finished second overall. Third on Saturday, in a Laser II, were Judy Moynihan and Therese Loesberg who placed fourth overall in the series.
Third overall in the league was David O’Connell, the Laser veteran of the club, who finished fourth on Saturday. In the club’s overall league results for the season, he is top sailor, leading Class 1 where Judy Moynihan and Therese Loesberg finished second. Charles McCarthy and Rory O’Connor were third for the season, sailing a 505.
Five races decided Class 2 October League, won by Olin Bateman, with Ethel Bateman second, both sailing Laser 4.7s. Isobelle Clarke Waterman and Conor Donald Kelly were third in an RS Feva XL. Waterman was season’s Class 2 overall winner. Second were Isobel O’Connor and her father, Tim, racing their Mirror and third Tony Geraghty and Daragh Killeen in another RS Feva XL.
