Despite a disqualification (DSQ) in the penultimate race of the five-race series last night, Richard Colwell and John Murphy's new J109 campaign from Howth Yacht Club held the lead in Class One of the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup to take overall victory this afternoon.
'Outrajeous' discarded the DSQ result after a protest room decision last night and counted two wins and two seconds to be three points clear of Paul and Deirdre Tingle's X-34 Alpaca from Royal Cork who broke the stranglehold of the J109s in Class one, to finish as runner-up.
Brian Jones's sistership Jelly Baby from Royal Cork was third.
Outrajeous has been showing good speed and with Olympian Mark Mansfield aboard, was the one to watch in this class, even though John Maybury's Joker II pushed her hard in Wednesday's opening races.
Paul and Deirdre Tingle's X-34 Alpaca Photo: Bob Bateman
The overall result is as predicted by Afloat in its pre-regatta article here.
See full overall results here and read WM Nixon's review of the 2019 Sovereign's Cup here.
