Another top result for Royal Cork's Mark Mansfield in the Etchells Class this week as he took a podium in Cowes Week, racing as tactician,with Robert Drake.
Counting three race wins in the 7 race series they finished with a final race win on Saturday. Robert Elliott won the regatta with four race wins, with Stuart Childerley, three times Etchells World Champion, as tactician.
This one design fleet result comes hot on the heels of two other good one design results very recently for Mansfield. As Afloat.ie previously reported here, the four time Olympian was tactician on John Smart's J109 Jukebox which won the Tattinger J109 regatta in Yarmouth and taking a top–ten result as tactician with Mike Budd in the Dragon Edinburgh Cup.
As also reported previously, Mansfield also won the ICRA class one championships for the third consecutive time last June as tactician on John Maybury's Joker 2, and then went on to win the highly competitive Class 1 event on Joker 2 at Dun Laoghaire Regatta in July. This win also won Joker Two, the regatta's boat of the week prize.
Next up for Mansfield is a 'chill–out week' at Calves Week in Schull, West Cork this week followed by the Half Ton Classics Regatta in Kinsale next Sunday as tactician aboard Mike and Richie Evans Big Picture from Howth Yacht Club.
