Kinsale Yacht Club Dragon Sailors in Control at South Coast Championships (Photo Gallery Below)

2nd September 2017

Cameron Good, Henry Kingston and Simon Furney lead on home waters. Scroll down for photo gallery below Credit: Bob Bateman

After four races at the 2017 Dragon South Coast Championship, locals Cameron Good, Henry Kingston and Simon Furney have the overall lead from Royal St. George's David Williams and Peter Bowring writes Bob Bateman.

See results and photo gallery below.

The Dublin Bay boat has the same eight points as the Kinsale Yacht Club leader but double wins today gives Good the advantage in the nine–boat fleet.

Kinsale boat Shawn Kingston's Grey Hare is third and another Kinsale entry, Adrian Bendon's Mar J is fourth.

This morning's racing schedule was put forward to 11am due to a wet windy forecast but it turned out to be light winds on the way out to the first start at the Old Head of Kinsale. Winds were not long in filling in, however, and 15 /18 knots from west–south–west and a lumpy sea produced classic Kinsale conditions.

Williams' Phantom led at the first windward mark but a gybe set from Good proved to be winning move as got into the lead and held on til the finish.

Racing continues tomorrow. The Race Officer is Kinsale's own Alan Crosbie.

Dragon South Coast Championship after four races

1	IRL211	Little Fella	Cameron Good	Henry Kingston	Simon Furney	KYC	8	4	2	1	1
2	IRL176	Phantom	David Williams	Peter Bowring/Hilary Murray	Arthur Mehigan/Conor Grimley	RStGYC	8	3	1	2	2
3	IRL188	Grey Hare	Shawn Kingston	Tony Kingston	Harry Lewis	KYC	15	2	5	4	4
4	IRL156	Mar J	Adrian Bendon	Choryna Kiely	Matthew Beecher	KYC	18	1	3	7	7
5	IRL201	Jaguar	Martin Byrne	Conor Byrne	Adam Winkelman	RStGYC	20	5	9	3	3
6	IRL695	Magic	Warren Brown/Kevin Hayes	Killian Murphy	Clare Hayes/Eamonn Timoney	GHYC	22	6	6	5	5
7	IRL180	Serafina	Maeve Cotter	Daniel Murphy	Brian Goggin	KYC	24	8	4	6	6
8	IRL110	Aphrodite	Peter Hayes	Tiernan Brown	Killian Forde/Ruairi Brown	GHYC	31	7	8	8	8
9	IRL157	Tenacious	Anthony O'Neill	Dave Horgan	Eoghan O'Neill	KYC	36	9	7	10	10

KYC Dragons17 3924

Published in Dragon

Tagged under

About The Author

Bob Bateman

Email The Author

We've got a favour to ask

More people are reading Afloat.ie than ever thanks to the power of the internet but we're in stormy seas because advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news sites, we haven’t put up a paywall because we want to keep our marine journalism open.

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full–time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.

So you can see why we need to ask for your help.

If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be more secure. You can help us through a small donation. Thank you.