Race Reviews

 

Weekend Race Report 12th June 2009

 

CSC Marine Motors Friday Night League .16Boats came to the line in a south easterly 16knot wind and sunshine

1st in kites IRC Bedlam ,Allister,Russell.,Doyle
2nd D.Aherns  Re Eile 

3rd B.Crocket and Upstart 

Echo 1stBombora Allister ,Kavanagh

2nd Allister, Russell, Doyle on Bedlam 

3rd K’O’Regan’s Huntress
White Fleet 1st Grasshopper O’O’Brien

2nd R.Allen’s Mystic and

3rd Ben Lui and V.Donnelly

 

 

Weekend Race Report 29th May 2009

 

Cove Sailing Club Friday night  league continued in perfect conditions and 15 knots of wind .17 Boats came to the start ,

1st in kites IRC Allister /Russell in Bedlam 2nd Upstart B.Crocket  3rd P.Bruton and Targeteer.

Echo results 1st Hideaway D.Roache 2nd B.Crocket in Upstart 3rd Bedlam Allister /Russell .

White sail fleet 1st Grasshopper and  O.’Brian  2nd Cest La Vie D.Murphy 3rd Meshona and K.Ferguson

 

Prize giving for the overall May Friday Night races took place in the Marloag Inn great buzz on the night congratulations to all the winners .

 

Kites IRC 1st Bedlam Allister/Russell 2nd ReEile  D.Ahern 3rd B.Crocket in Upstart ,

Echo results 1st P.Bruton Targeteer 2nd ReEile  D.Ahern  and 3rd B.Crocket and Upstart .

White sail fleet 1st R.Allen in Mystic 2nd N.Dunne’s Wombat and 3rd D.Murphy and Cest La Vie 

 

Friday Night races continue through June details on the web site

 

Weekend Race Report 22nd - 24th May 2009

 

CSC Friday Night League

 

Cobh sailing club results Friday evening, In a blustery 20knot south westerly wind 18 boats raced in an all in start .

Kites: IRC  K Dorgan in Sibaleus took 1st  K .Collins in Tambourine 2nd  D.Ahern 3rd in ReEile.

Echo: P.Bruton in Targeteer 1st K.Dorgan in Sibaleus 2nd.   B.Crockett in Upstart 3rd .

Whites: 1st Wombat and N.Dunne 2nd E .English in Holy Grounder 3rd Ben Lui and V.Donelly

 

CSC May League

May League continues with the Marloag Trophy, Wind came from the south west gusting to 25 knot .

20 boats, all in start, in both IRC and Echo,

 

IRC

Blondie IV and E.Rohan  took honors

S.Stratham in Slack Alice 2nd, 

D.Colman Thunderbird 3rd ,

 

Echo

Blondie again 1st

D.Ahern 2nd in ReEile

Upstart 3rd B.Crockett 

 

May league over all results

Class 2 IRC

1st D. Coleman, Thunderbird,

2nd B.Crockett, Upstart,

 

Class 2 Echo

1st Upstart

2nd Thunderbird

 

Class 3 IRC

1st Targeteer and P.Bruton

2nd ReEile and D.Ahern

3rd Stage Fright  D. Merchant .

 

Class 3 Echo

1st Targeteer

2nd ,B. McConnell  in Monkey Business  

3rd D. Allister in Bedlam.

 

Whites

E. English Holy Grounder 1st ,

D.Murphy  Cest La Vie 2nd

Sack Alice 3rd

 

Thanks to the boats from Crosshaven and Dungarvan for taking part.

 

Best of luck to Eddie English for another 35yrs in business 

    

Weekend Race Report 15th - 17th May 2009

 

CSC Friday Night League

 

The third race of the Friday Night league in Cobh had ten come to the start line.
A south west wind of around 18 knots made for great sailing conditions.
In Kites IRC first place went to Allister/ Russell/ Doyle’s Bedlam, second Barry Crockets Upstart and third Damien Ahern’s R Eile.
The same order prevailed in Kites Echo with the double for Bedlam in first, second place Upstart and third R Eile.
In Whites first place went to Rory Allen’s Mystic, second Noel Dunne’s Wombat and third Carl Queens Maximiser.

 

CSC May League

 

The third race in Cove Sailing Clubs May league saw crews coping with very blustery southerly winds gusting to over 25 knots.
In Class 2 IRC first place went to D. Coleman’s Thunderbird with  B. Crockett’s Upstart second. 

In Clas 2 Echo the order was reversed with  Upstart first and  Thunderbird second.

In Class 3 IRC it was B. McConnell’s Monkey Business in first with Allister/Russell/Doyles Bedlam second and D Merchant’s Stagefright third.

In Class 3 Echo B. McConnell’s Monkey business made it a double with first place , Stagefright was second and Bedlam third.
In White sail  E. English’s Holy Grounder was first with Shane Stratham’s Slack Alice in second and D. Murphy’s Cest la Vie third.  

 

Weekend Race Report 8th - 10th May 2009

 

CSC Friday Night League

 

9 boats came to the start line in a brisk westerly breeze.

In Kites it was the Allister/Russell crew in Bedlam who took 1st in IRC with D. Ahern’s Re Eile 2nd and P. Bruton’s  Targeteer  3rd.

In Echo, it was  Re Eile  in 1st place followed by Bedlam 2nd and Targeteer  3rd. 

In the White sail division it was D. Murphy’s Cest la Vie in 1st place with N. Dunne’s Wombat 2nd and Rory Allen’s Mystic 3rd.

 

CSC May League

 

On Sunday, with sunshine and  an easterly wind of 20 knots,  the May League continued in perfect conditions.

In Class 3 Pat Bruton on Targeteer won in both IRC and Echo with D. Ahern’s Re Eile   2nd and B. McConnell’s Monkey Business 3rd  ,in IRC and Echo.
In the White sail division it was E. English’s Holy Grounder in 1st, closely followed Shane Stratham’s Slack Alice in 2nd and D. Murphy’s Cest la Vie in 3rd, setting up a very close series with the three boats on the same points after two races.

 

Weekend Race Report 1st - 3rd May 2009

 

CSC Friday Night League

Cove Sailing Club's cruiser racing season got underway on Friday 1st May with 11 boats turning out to enjoy a great evenings racing in fine conditions. In the Whitesail league, 8 boats competed with Mystic finishing first on adjusted time ahead of Holy Grounder and Brightwings. CSC would like to welcome two new boats - Vincent Donnelly and crew on Ben Lui from Aghada and Noel Dunne with his crew on Wombat from the Naval Yacht Squadron who both did well on the night. Great to see the Whitesail league so well supported this early on in the season. It looks like this is set to be a very competitive season for the Whites with at least a few of the regular whiteboats due back over the next couple of weeks. In the Kites league, Re Eile finished first on adjusted time with Targeteer and Upstart in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Full results and League tables are available on the CSC website results pages here.

CSC would like to thanks to Adrian Tyler, Peter and Arther Kavanagh for helping with OD duties on Arthers boat Dasher Doyle and also Liam Allister, Sailing Secretary for all his hard work in getting the leagues set up ready for the start of the season and for OD'ing on the night. The Friday night league races will continue every Friday evening throughout the season until end of August. Please keep an eye on the Sailing program for OD duties.

 

View race results here

CSC May League

The May League kicked off on Sunday 3rd May. CSC were delighted to welcome 3 boats from Dunmore East - Stagefright, Monkey Business, and Slack Alice who has returned to defend the titles they won last year, as well as Thunderbird from Crosshaven.

With swimmers in the channel off Cobh, the Grimaldi lines vessel leaving port, and the local ferry making its way across the line just before the start the crews had plenty to keep themselves occupied during the build up to the race. Despite all the activity the race started on time at 2.05PM opposite Kennedy Park Promenade and those on shore enjoyed a fine spectacle as the class 2 & 3 fleets passed Cobh under spinnaker on the run back from Whitepoint.

There was very competitive racing throughout the fleets. In class 2 Thunderbird took line honours only seconds ahead of Upstart although this result was reversed on adjusted time in both the ECHO and IRC divisions. In Class 3, Stagefright crossed the line ahead of Targeteer and Monkey Business taking 1st place in the class 3 IRC division, with Monkey Business taking 1st in the class 3 ECHO division. In the Whitesail league, Slack Alice and Holy Grounder battled each other all the way round the harbour with Holy Grounder eventually crossing the line in 1st place after a photo finish. On adjusted time the Whites race was won by C'est la vie, with Slack Alice in 2nd, and Holy Grounder in 3rd.

CSC would like to thank the race organisers - Kieran, John, Liam and Adrian and a special thanks to Martin Drake for the use of his rib. The May League continues each Sunday until 24th May. See you all next week.

 

View race results here

Friday Night Leauge – Race 1 – 1st MAY 2009

 

A very promising start to the 2009 Friday night Cruiser racing with 11 boats coming to the start line.
Conditions were idealic with up tp 18kts of wind from the West and sunshine to boot. Liam Alister as OOD set up a fine course taking the fleet on a beat to No 9 .

 

The start line was keenly contested but without any ‘hackling’  - I suppose playing it ‘careful’ for now. There was a flooding tide so the majority of the fleet seemed to favour taking the ‘right’ side of the beat to the North and out of the channel , with a few boats staying on the ‘left’ side. Neither side seemed to pay off as the fleet stayed relatively even. 

 

After No 9 there followed a close reach to No 13 where the fleets of the Royal Cork and CSC met in a scene akin to a ‘mid summer’ regatta. After No 13 an even closer reach to No 10, and  then it  was a ‘downhill’ run with the Kites shaking out the cobwebs on the Spinnys (and the crews!) and the ‘Whites’ keeping their concentration ( putting on the kettle? ) and maybe ‘driving’ up any Kites close by. The race finished at  EF 1 after leaving No 11 to starboard. 

 

A great start to the coming season, considering a  few boats have still  yet to launch / get ‘organised’.

 

View race results here

 

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