Excitement is building in the Royal Cork Yacht Club for this week’s AIB Optimist dinghy Nationals 2020 in Cork Harbour.
It will be the first time the Irish Optimist fleet will compete this year due to COVID and participant numbers at the event have been limited by organisers.
The event starts on Thursday but there has already been some pre-championship tuning going on at Crosshaven.
Photo slideshow below by Bob Bateman
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