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Maurice Kidney's Rankin continues to lead the Wednesday Night Dinghy League at Cove SC in Cork Harbour on 7 points from Owen O'Connell.

The latter continues second in another Rankin on 9, with Joe Keenan making up the top trio in his Solo on 15 points.

There are 16 boats in the fleet.

Published in Cove Sailing Club

Last Saturday in Cork Harbour saw the fourth Annual sailing of The Rankin Regatta Race since boat owners got together to form the group in 2014.

Twelve sailing Rankins took to the water for the first gun and a hotly contested race ensued. Damien Ahern's 'Star Ship Enterprise' made a tremendous start and looked for much of the race as if she would be regatta race winner for the second consecutive year. Damien's lead, however, was being pegged back by some great sailing in the following fleet.

Ewan O Keeffe's boat, along with Owen O Connell in Helga and Johnny Horgan's 'Freedom V' were nip and tuck coming up to the finish line with Johnny's 'Freedom V' taking the winner's gun just ahead of Owen in the Helga and Ewan O Keeffe a close third.

A great race well sailed by all boats and so fitting that the first Rankins built finished in the top two places in this year's race.

Published in Cork Harbour
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The Rankin Dinghy of Cobh, Cork Harbour 

A Rankin is a traditional wooden dinghy which was built in Cobh, of which it’s believed there were 80 and of which The Rankin Dinghy Group has traced nearly half. 

The name of the Rankin dinghies is revered in Cork Harbour and particularly in the harbourside town of Cobh.

And the name of one of those boats is linked to the gunboat which fought against the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising and later for the emergent Irish Free State Government against anti-Treaty Forces during the Irish Civil War.

It also links the renowned boat-building Rankin family in Cobh, one of whose members crewed on the gunboat.

Maurice Kidney and Conor English are driving the restoration of the Rankin dinghies in Cork Harbour. They have discovered that Rankins were bought and sailed in several parts of the country.