| Ireland. Cork Week: Light winds prevent full race program |
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| Tuesday, 18 July 2006 | |
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Jean Kearney: Light conditions dominated the opening day of Cork Week at Crosshaven yesterday (Monday) as the estimated 5000 sailors began racing in the five series that is one of the highlights of the international sailing season. After a prolonged delay in a near calm, a gentle sea breeze started with enough force to keep the fleet racing for a couple of legs so that results could be scored. Forecasts of ten knots for Tuesday offer some hope of relief and a full race programme. Benny Kelly's Transpac 52 emerged overall leader of Class Super Zero, home of the exotics including Bill Buckley and Charlie Browns' Maximus who fell foul of the short course and light airs to finish second from last in the class. Colm Barrington's new Kerr 50 footer Magic Glove scored first in Class Zero after a runaway lead against 15 other contenders. Elsewhere in the 402 boat combined entry, Ian Southworth leads the Laser SB3 class while the largest racing fleet in Class 2 is being led by Donal O'Leary's X-35 D-Tox. Cork Week summary Current Class leaders (Provisional) Cork Week IRC Super 0 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Panthera Mr Benny Kelly1 2 Oystercatcher Mr Richard Matthews 2 3 Formidable 3 P.W. Vroon 3 Cork Week IRC0 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Magic Glove Colm Barrington1 2 CODIAM ENSP dh NICOLEAU/LODAY 2 3 Dark & Steamy Nick & Annie Haigh 3 Cork Week IRM Place Boat Owner Points 1 Farrfalina Robert Goddard 1 2 Audacious David Wadsworth & Neil Lamont 2 3 Creative Play H2O Yachting 3 Cork Week IRC1 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Jump Juice Conor & Denise Phelan 1 2 Marinerscove.ie David Dwyer 2 3 Cracklin Rosie Jean Phillippe Cau 3 Cork Week IRC2 Place Boat Owner Points 1 D-Tox Mr Donal O Leary 1 2 Kiss David Pinner 2 3 Checkmate Mr Mike McCarthy 3 Cork Week IRC3 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Raptor Hewitt/Mc'Carthy 1 2 X-Perience Peter Evans 2 3 Indiscretion Mr Richard Fildes 3 Cork Week IRC4 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Esperanto Alfa Romeo 1 2 Blue Berret Pi E. Connellan/T. Madigan 2 3 Fixation Mr Nick Fullagar 3 Cork Week IRC5 Place Boat Owner Points 1 ALIG8R Brian McKernan 1 2 CUL8R Team CUL8R 2 3 Blackadder Dr Jonathon Price-Jones 3 Cork Week IRC6 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Bluff Alex Ballot 1 2 Throbber Stephen Rees 2 3 Bandit Ian Travers 3 Cork Week Corporate Class Place Boat Owner Points 1 Strata 3 East Anglian Sea School 1 2 Aberlady Mrs Ann Ryan & Mr Nick Hodshon 2 3 Assarain II Mr Ross Ireland 3 Cork Week Gentleman’s Class Place Boat Owner Points 1 Crystal Light Michael Powell 1 2 Aras Mr Tim McNamara 2 3 Adventurer Mr Philip Llewhellin 3 Cork Week J109 Place Boat Owner Points 1 No Naked Flames Andrew Allen/Colm Monahan 1 2 Mono of Gibraltar Mr John Bassadone 2 3 King Louie Fiona & Malcolm Thorpe 3 Cork Week X332 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Brightwork Mr Bob and Jon Baker 1 2 Xpletive Michael John Crompton 2 3 Dexterity Team Foynes 3.5 3 X-Rated John & Gair Gordon 3.5 Cork Week Sigma 38 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Premier Cru Simon Brock & James Barr 1 2 The Project Andy Budgen / Freddie Schwin 2 3 Arbitrator Peter Hopps and Hilary Cook 3 Cork Week Sunsail Sunfast 37 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Sunsail 76 Sunsail 1 2 Sunsail 72 Sunsail 2 3 Sunsail 68 Sunsail 3 Cork Week Mixed Sports Boats Place Boat Owner Points 1 No Limit Mr Ray Cook 1 2 Elf Christine Leiper & Robin Murray 2 3 Jenga Mr & Mrs Marie-Claude & Paul Heys 3 Cork Week SB3 Place Boat Owner Points 1 SMALL BUT STEAMY IAN SOUTHWORTH 1 2 Team Maclaren Christina Summerhayes 2 3 Bandit Martin Head & Hugh McAdoo 3 Cork Week Hunter 707 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Swallow Gordon Craigen 1 2 Darkness Patrick Miles 2 3 Sparkle Paul Curtis 3 Cork Week 1720 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Dark Side Charles Swingland 1 2 Wet n Black Nicholas O Leary 2 3 Storm Norman Armstrong / Brett Lewis 3 Cork Week Beneteau 31.7 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Flying Machine Barry Cunningham 1 2 Levante Brian Leyden/Michael Leahy 2 3 Attitude D Owens, J Sugars et all 3 Cork Week Prima 38 Place Boat Owner Points 1 Mighty Max 3 Andy Williams 1 2 Longbow Mr P Anderson 2 3 Another Nods Richard & Helen Booth 3 www.corkweek.ie |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 July 2006 ) |
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