Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Chris Power Smith, skipper of the J/122 Aurelia from the RStGYC, was presented with the Carmel Winkelmann Memorial Trophy (First Corinthian boat in the 2021 D2D Race) at a presentation in the Royal St George Yacht Club after DBSC Thursday racing on July 20th.
The perpetual trophy was presented by Adam Winkelmann (D2D Chairman) along with Con Murphy (D2D PRO), Richard O’Connor (Commodore RStGYC) and Conor O’ Regan (Commodore NYC)
The re-purposed Perpetual Trophy was kindly provided by the NYC and beautifully restored by Pat Shannon of Facet Jewellers, Dun Laoghaire.
As Afloat reported at the time, Carmel, a stalwart of Dun Laoghaire sailing, sadly passed away in St Vincent’s University Hospital at the same time as her son Adam was presenting the prizes in Dingle to the various Race Prizewinners on June 12th last year. As was her way, and despite her very brief but serious illness, she found the wherewithal to instruct her son Adam to go to Dingle to finish the yachts and complete the race administration and prizegiving along with the rest of the NYC team.
"It is fitting that following a near lifetime of volunteer effort by the late Carmel Winkelmann a trophy recognising Corinthian values will be perpetually presented in her name", Adam told Afloat.
"Congratulations to Chris Power Smith and the Aurelia crew on a wonderful performance in the race where they finished first Corinthian and 4th Overall in IRC", he said.
The 2023 D2D race will start from the NYC in Dun Laoghaire on Wednesday, June 7th 2023. More details are expected in due course from the National Yacht Club including event sponsorship.