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D2D Thursday at 12.30 am - It’s a cold night off the south coast, with a keen edge to the east nor’east breeze which is sweeping the fleet toward. ....
Ireland s Developing Sailing Season of 2021 Is Like a Gently Rising Tide 26th June 2021 Ding-dong at Foynes – Gala Racing (Simon McGibney, Foynes YC) and Lola (Luke McBride, Sligo YC) trying their own side of the beat in search of success in last weekend s J/24 Southerns at Foynes on the Shannon Estuary. Alas, it was not to be – this wasn t the win move that seems to be promised here Credit: Foynes YC The National YC s Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race of Wednesday, June 9th – just two days after such things became permissible on June 7th - may have been hailed here as a spectacular pillar event to launch the 2021 Irish sailing season out of the pandemic penumbra . But the truth is that the season currently getting under way is more like a gentle tide flooding into a winding and shallow creek, rather than a sudden eruption of activity across a wide front. ....
Kinsale & Crosshaven Yachts Leading on Water & Handicap in Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race 9th June 2021 The Murphy family s Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo is leading the Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race on corrected time Day #1 8 pm: The weather has settled down to a warm and sunny summer s evening as the fleet in the 2021 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race turn to windward close inshore between Wicklow Head and Arklow, theoretically with ample time to appreciate the lush beauties of the coastline of the Garden of Ireland, as they ll be plugging an adverse flood tide until midnight. But the pressure of the racing is such that coastal beauty will have to be appreciated in hindsight. Conor Doyle s Xp50 from Kinsale was finally beginning to feel the benefit of her extra length, and had moved into a stylish lead on the water, but at the 1945hrs check in, she was shown as heading back north – however, that position had reversed at 2000, and she was back on track in light winds. Read ....