The biennial race is doubling as a feeder for the ICRA national championships in Fenit a week later. Kinsale are also staging a feeder race which starts off the Charles fort line next June 5th. The Jim Donegan trophy will be presented to the winning Echo handicap boat, while the recently commissioned ICRA offshore trophy will go to the top IRC yacht. There is the chance of a coastal encounter between these boats and the departing Volvo fleet who will be rounding the Fastnet rock next Saturday afternoon bound for Gothenberg, Sweden in the next leg of the Ocean Race. More in David O'Brien's Friday sailing column in the Irish Times here
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