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The Winter League for cruisers at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Cork Harbour will be for White Sails.
There will be six races, starting on Sunday, November 6 and concluding on Sunday, December 11, according to the Notice of Race issued by the club.
“All-in White Sail, results under IRC and ECHO, with the overall trophy awarded under IRC. One race scheduled each day, weather dependent,” the Notice says. “Daily prizes for 1st and 2nd only. Series prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
The League will be sponsored by O’Leary Insurances and is an open event, to include visiting boats.
Entry forms must be completed and are available on the RCYC website
Praise for Royal Cork Yacht Club Race Communications and Offshore Sailing on the South Coast in 2023
The Royal Cork Yacht Club (RCYC) at Crosshaven has received a lot of praise for the running of Sunday’s Autumn League during a “weather window” in Cork Harbour, getting the fleet home before a gale hit the Cork area which was so strong that it caused serious damage and serious flooding.
The plan for the race involved making the start an hour earlier and racing inside the harbour.
Read Afloat's race report here.
The race was also part of the South Coast Offshore Racing Association’s annual league series.
SCORA’s Treasurer, Michael Murphy, who has been taking part in the racing, was impressed by the quality of the organisation and the safety steps taken to complete the race safely.
He is my Podcast guest this week, where we discuss the importance of good on-the-water racing communications, the differing standards of race officiating and the likelihood that there will be more offshore racing in SCORA’s calendar for next year.
Listen to the Podcast here.
Kinsale's J109 Artful Dodger in the IRC One Lead at Royal Cork's Autumn League (Photo Gallery)
The third race of the Royal Cork Yacht Club's AIB-sponsored Autumn League was sailed in the shadow of a gale warning today, with all fleets completing a single blustery race in Cork Harbour.
After three races sailed – and no discard applied so far there is a clear leader in IRC Spinnaker Division One.
Visiting J109 crew Artful Dodger from Kinsale under skipper Finbarr O'Regan has a 2.5-point lead over Eric & Wan Waterman's X37 Saxon Senator from the host club. The Waterman brothers are tied on nine points with the host club's Jones Family sailing the J122, Jelly Baby for second place.
Results are provisional following today's third and single race under Race Officer Anthony O'Leary.
Following a Committee Boat start to the dognose mark in 12 to 16 knots, all fleets sailed course 93, but with the breeze increasing to 20 knots, Class two and White Sail divisions ended up with a shortened course.
Although Swuzzelbubble leads overall in IRC Spinnaker Two division, the Dave & James Dwyer Half Tonner had to be content with second in today's race as Michael McCann's appropriately named Etchells 22 Don't Dilly Dally surfed past Swuzzelbubble at the finish line. Overall the Dwyers count five points so far with Conor Phelan's Quarter Tonner Anchor Challenge second on 11 and McCann a point further back in third.
A seven-boat 1720 fleet raced on the Curlane bank.
In a competitive outing in IRC One White Sails division, Kieran O'Brien's MG335 Magnet on six points leads RCYC clubmates Frank Caul and John Molloy's Grand Soliel 37B Prince of Tides also on six.
Aidan Heffernan's Dufour 36 Indulgence is two points off the lead in this place in the eight-boat fleet.
Racing continues next Sunday.
Bob Bateman's Photo Gallery of the third race of the AIB Royal Cork Yacht Club Autumn League in Cork Harbour
Autumn League Resumes at Royal Cork But Starts Earlier This Sunday
The Autumn League will resume at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven on Sunday, after cancellation last week due to weather conditions, but First Gun will be an hour earlier.
Fog was a particular problem last weekend, wind conditions were about acceptable, but, for safety reasons, the decision to cancel was taken.
“We have been watching the weather this weekend and see an opportunity with an earlier start for a weather window, so the start is being moved forward by an hour,” the club has announced. An Amendment to this effect has been posted on the league sailing instructions.
After the first day of racing on Sunday, October 2, Saxon Senator leads IRC Spinnaker 1, and Swuzzlebubble is Division 2 Spinnaker leader.
Prince of Tides leads Whitesails IRC 1. Apache tops Division 2 Whitesails. T-Bone is the 1720 leader.
Under ECHO handicap, Alpaca (Paul and Deirdre Tingle) leads Class 1 Spinnakers. Swuzzlebubble tops Class 2. Elegance (Paul O’Shea) leads Whitesails 1, and Loch Greine is top in Whitesails 2.
Ted Crosbie Funeral: “Was I Tough? – Ask the Opposition...”
“I must go down to the sea again….”
The opening words of John Masefield’s renowned seafaring poem ‘Sea Fever,’ which was the Reflection on the funeral Mass Card for Ted Crosbie…evoking memories of his passion for sailing.
That was, perhaps, unsurprising.
It was also unsurprising that there was a very big attendance at SS. Peter and Paul’s Church in the heart of Cork City, at which State and municipality were officially represented for his funeral.
Respect for Ted was immense, as the Celebrant, Fr. Pat McCarthy, recalled when he referred to him as a man of immense achievements, of ‘robust independence,’ who valued life, with democracy of thought and action which he showed in his life in the newspaper world.
There were people from the newspaper and publishing world, past Admirals from the Royal Cork Yacht Club, where he had also been Admiral, representatives from clubs around the country, employees from the newspapers the Crosbie family had owned – the Irish and formerly Cork Examiner, The Echo and many people from the vast and varied community of Corkonians whom he had known and whose respect he had earned. A long queue that had formed at the Church took nearly two hours to pass up the main aisle to meet the family, so large was the attendance.
Looking at Ted Crosbie’s coffin in the church, I remembered the lively, always jovial and helpful man whose newspapers I had worked for and later met as a colleague sailor, whose encouragement and advice helped me into the sport. We had often talked when getting ready for Thursday evening weekly racing at the RCYC changing room when we might both have hurried from the office for the start line.
I once asked him if he was “a tough sailor”, – to which he responded: “Ask the opposition….”
As Ted Crosbie’s coffin was carried by family, led by his son, Tom, also a strong sailor at the RCYC, from the church to the hearse for the burial in St.Finbarr’s Cemetery on the western side of the city, people gathered outside. They recalled Ted’s life with many anecdotes about him.
“It is,” I was told, “a celebration of his life. There is sadness, of course, but also joy amongst all those here because he was unique.”
His passion for sailing was a subject I had often suggested to Ted, when we met that would make a good interview for my Afloat Podcast and radio programme.
He was a bit elusive about agreeing, but in March 2018, he did when I began by asking him how he got into sailing.
It was at the age of ten.
He chuckled as he told me how it happened….
You will too when you listen to that Podcast, which is appropriate today to repeat below
Dwyer's Half Tonner Swuzzlebubble Leads Royal Cork's IRC Two After First Races of Autumn League
Dave and James Dwyer's famous Half Tonner Swuzzlebubble leads the IRC Two Spinnaker division after the first two races of Royal Cork Yacht Club's AIB Autumn League.
Lying second in the 11-boat fleet is Conor Phelan's Quarter Tonner Anchor Challenge.
The Desmond/Ivers/Keane Sunfast 32 Bad Company is third.
The Autumn League runs on the five Sundays of October with racing for Spinnaker, WhiteSail and 1720 classes.
It was a beautiful morning for the first races, but the northwest wind was very light.
After a short postponement, the combined fleets went on a Windward Leeward course outside the harbour.
The course was shortened when the wind died completely, and as it filled in again, most boats got a finish in a two-hour first race.
There was a wait for the wind to fill in between races, but it eventually came from the southwest at about 8 to 10 knots. A laid mark gave all fleets a beat and then a run back to Harp Mark off Trabolgan, then into the Harbour, passing No 2 buoy and a finish in White Bay.
Videos by Mary Malone and Bob Bateman
In the IRC One Spinnaker division, Eric and Wan Waterman's X37 Saxon Senator tops the nine-boat fleet with a first and a second score of three points.
Lying second on five points is the Jones Family J122 JellyBaby. Third, on seven, is Paul and Deirdre Tingle's X4 Alpaca.
In the eight-boat 1720 sportsboat division, Tom Durcan and Clive O'Shea were the only finishers of the first race inside Cork harbour, and with another win in race two are now seven points clear ahead of John Crotty's Monkstown Bay entry. Third is Dave Kenefick's Full Irish on 11 points.
In the White Sail Division One, the Grand Soliel 37B Prince of Tides (Frank Caul/John Molloy) leads from Kieran O'Brien's MG335, Magnet.
In White Sail Division Two, Alan Mulcahy's visiting Albin Express Apache from Kinsale leads from the McGrath Family's Big Mc.
Royal Cork Yacht Club Autumn League Day One Photo Gallery By Bob Bateman
Royal Cork Autumn League Will be Mix of Windward/Leeward and Coastal Races By Skippers' Request
The Autumn League will start at the Royal Cork Yacht Club on Sunday, continuing until the month's end.
Racing is for Spinnaker, WhiteSail and 1720 classes in Cork Harbour. The event is sponsored by AIB this year.
The club says, "following Skipper requests, the racing will mix windward/leeward laid courses with some longer coastal races.”
This will mean two races on three Sundays, October 2,16 and 30, with one scheduled on October 9 and 23.
First Gun on all days at 11.25 a.m. It is an open event.
Optimist Cobbler League at Royal Cork Yacht Club Takes Place Through October
The Optimist dinghy Cobbler League will take place across the first Sundays in October; 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd at Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven in Cork Harbour.
Racing will take place for Junior and Senior fleets with separate starts available if numbers allow.
A one-day entry is also facilitated for those that cannot attend the full series.
Royal Cork Yacht Club Naval Race in Cork Harbour Won By J122 Jelly Baby
The Jones family J/122 Jelly Baby from the host club were the winners of the annual Royal Cork Yacht Club Naval Race in Cork Harbour on Saturday.
Racing in the seven-boat spinnaker division, skipper Brian Jones beat season-long big boat club rivals Annamarie and Denis Murphy in the Grand Soliel 40 Nieulargo.
Brisk northerly winds gave the fleet a reaching start to No.5 buoy from a RIB-based Committee Boat start that proved more than adequate, with flags flying from a stick.
Videos by Bob Bateman and Mary Malone
The 19-boat sailed close hauled to No.13 Cuskinny buoy, about a mile off Cove, then outside the harbour with a traditional finish at the Haulbowline Naval Base.
Third was Fiona Young's Albin Express North Star.
In the 12-boat Club ECHO division, Kieran O'Brien's MG335 Magnet continues his recent White Sail success (winning the RCYC August/SeptemberLeague, as Afloat reported previously) with a win in the Naval Race.
Frank Caul and John Molloy's Grand Soliel 37B Prince of Tides finished second ahead of Des Corbet's entry Netta J, from Cove Sailing Club.
Results are below
Royal Cork Yacht Club Naval Race Photo Gallery By Bob Bateman
Friday's Royal Cork Whitesail Leagues Both Won by Sigma 33, Scribbler
Evening cruiser-racing concluded in Cork Harbour with the final race of the August/September Whitesails League at the RCYC.
Evening cruiser and dinghy racing has also finished at Cove SC. Monkstown Bay Sailing Club dinghy racing is moving from evenings to Saturdays for September.
The June/July and August/September Friday whitesail leagues at the RCYC were both won by SCRIBBLER (Tom and Cormac MacSweeney). The dual success of the Sigma 33 was helmed respectively by the young brothers Oisin (June/July) and Rowan (August/September). They are also both Laser sailors at the RCYC.
Second in August/September was John O’Connor and John Hanley’s Impala FAST BUCK, and third Clive Doherty’s PHAETON. Second in the June/July League was Peter Webster’s, THISTLE and third was FAST BUCK.