After three races were sailed in medium winds for the 29-boat cruiser-racer fleet last Sunday, a further two were raced in Royal Cork Yacht Club's Autumn League 2024 on Sunday (October 13th) to give a discard after five sailed so far.
Perfect Score for Admiral's Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo
The RCYC Admiral's Grand Soliel 40 Nieulargo (Annamarie Murphy) continues to lead a six-boat class one fleet with a perfect scoreline of five wins on IRC. In their performance so far in 2024, Murphy topped ICRA's mid-season national Boat of the Year rankings, and RCYC's Autumn League counts for overall points in the annual ICRA competition. The Jones family's J122 Jelly Baby stays second, but the gap to first place is now five points. Paul and Deirdre Tingle's X4 Alpaca has been overtaken for third place by Finbarr O'Regan's J/109 Artful Dodger from Kinsale on 12. The top three was repeated on the ECHO handicap.
McCann's Etchells 22 Dominates Class Two IRC
The one design Etchells 22 Don't Dilly Dally sailed by Michael McCann continues to eclipse the performance of the all-beating Farr half-tonner Swuzzlebubble (James Dwyer) with four race wins to lead on four points in Class Two IRC. Now lying second in the nine-boat division are Colman Garvey and Kieran Kelleher in the Dubois Quarter Tonner Diamond, five points behind on nine, counting a retiral in today's second race. A point behind Swuzzlebubble is third. On ECHO Diamond leads from Stephen Lysaght's Elan 333 Reavra Too from Kinsale with Don't Dilly Dally third.
'Cavatina' Leads Non-Spinnaker Fleet in IRC
In the league's biggest fleet of 14 boats, Ian Hickey's Granada 38, Cavatina, a double Round Ireland Race winner and recent ECHO RCYC Naval Race winner, has taken the overall lead by a point from Frank Caul and John Molloy Grand Soliel 37B Prince of Tides on eight. The McGrath family's Dehler 34, Big Mc lies third on 13 points. Prince of Tides lead on the IHS handicap. Sean Hanley's HB 31, Luas lies second on 15 and Cavatina lies third.
Royal Cork Yacht Club's Autumn League 2024 Race Four and Five Photo Gallery by Bob Bateman
Racing continues next Sunday. Results in all classes are below.