Lighter conditions return

Teams into their stride mid-way through Cork Week

Racing at Cork Week faced a mixed bag of results thanks to the return of lighter conditions today in stark contrast to the 'champagne sailing' enjoyed by all 5,000 sailors on Tuesday. The series has now passed its mid-point and save for a handful of classes, there are few certain overall winners in spite of very consistent results by leading contenders.

Tomorrow should see the event discard come into force for most of the fleet after their fifth race if not already sailed. This should serve to break several tied leaders but every race will count before Friday's finale.

Four first places from four races is about as consistent as anyone could hope for and Colm Barrington's overall lead of Class Zero on his new Ker 50 footer Magic Glove is unsurprising to many from the seasoned Cork Week skipper.

A third place for Ger O'Rourke's Cookson 50 Chieftain maintained his second place behind Benny Kelly's TP52 Panthera in Class Super Zero while a second place for Bill Buckley and Charlie Browns' Maximus was the New Zealand super maxi's best result of the week so far.

A dying breeze and foul tide forced the abandonment of the coastal race for classes one and two though the majority of class three racing the same course were able to finish in time for a result that saw John Moorehead and Chris Ferres' Bengal Magic win the long race to take the overall class lead.

Among the Laser SB3 Sportsboats, Christina Summerhayes' Team McLaren retains the overall lead after she discarded a ninth compared to Ian Southworth's second place discard and who is trailing by a single point.

Also in the Sportsboats, Charles Swingland's Dark Side has taken the lead of the 1720s after Colm Gallavan's Lemon was squeezed into second place by a ninth place in the single race of the day. The ousted class leader had delivered a hat-trick of first places on Tuesday in an unusually consistent performance for this demanding class.


Current Class Leaders

Cork Week IRC Super 0
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Panthera Mr Benny Kelly 6
2 Chieftain Mr Ger O Rourke 11
3 Formidable 3 P.W. Vroon 13

Cork Week IRC0
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Magic Glove Colm Barrington 4
2 Tiamat Tim Costello 12
3 Dark & Steamy Nick & Annie Haigh 12

Cork Week IRM
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Exabyte 4 Shaun Frohlich 9.5
2 Werewolf Mr Jerry Otter 12.5
3 Farrfalina Robert Goddard 17

Cork Week IRC1
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Jump Juice Conor & Denise Phelan 6
2 Marinerscove.ie David Dwyer 9
3 Jump Stewart Hawthorn 12

Cork Week IRC2
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Yeomantix Mr Robin Aisher 7
2 Kiss David Pinner 11
3 Checkmate Mr Mike McCarthy 11

Cork Week IRC3
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Bengal Magic John Moorehead & Chris Ferres 11
2 Inis-Mor Bernard GOUY 13
3 Raptor Hewitt/Mc'Carthy 25

Cork Week IRC4
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Blue Berret Pi E. Connellan/T. Madigan 7
2 Respect Tom Brennan 7
3 Fixation Mr Nick Fullagar 8

Cork Week IRC5
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Obsession VI Barry & David Rose 11
2 Zoom Baby Chris Horrigan 11
3 ALIG8R Brian McKernan 15

Cork Week IRC6
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Bandit Ian Travers 9
2 Fawkes John C Twomey 10
3 Bluff Alex Ballot 15

Cork Week Corporate Class
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Joopster Impression Sailing 7
2 Aberlady Mrs Ann Ryan & Mr Nick Hodshon 12
3 Lancelot Mr Andy Byham 13

Cork Week Gentlemans Class
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Red Rhum Jonathon Nicholson 5.5
2 Crystal Light Michael Powell 15.5
3 Silver Breeze Mick McKenna 16

Cork Week J109
Place Boat Owner Points
1 King Louie Fiona & Malcolm Thorpe 5
2 No Naked Flames Andrew Allen/Colm Monahan 8
3 Jumping Jellyfish David Richards 12

Cork Week X332
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Brightwork Mr Bob and Jon Baker 5
2 X-Rated John & Gair Gordon 15
3 Xpletive Michael John Crompton 16

Cork Week Sigma 38
Place Boat Owner Points
1 The Project Andy Budgen / Freddie Schwin 5
2 Errislannan Patrick Kirwan 8
3 Arbitrator Peter Hopps and Hilary Cook 11

Cork Week Sunsail Sunfast 37
Place Boat Owner Points
1 PSUK Sunsail 7
2 National Grid Sunsail 7
3 Agave Avengers Sunsail 9

Cork Week Mixed Sports Boats
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Jenga Mr & Mrs Marie-Claude & Paul Heys 6
2 Elf Christine Leiper & Robin Murray 13
3 Junto Peter Kent & Malcolm Downie 16

Cork Week SB3
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Team Maclaren Christina Summerhayes 5
2 SMALL BUT STEAMY IAN SOUTHWORTH 6
3 Charlie Fish-Team Steam Team Steam 14

Cork Week Hunter 707
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Darkness Patrick Miles 9
2 Begorrah ! Mr Eddie Proctor 11
3 Cacciatore Richard A Barnes 11

Cork Week 1720
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Lemon Colin Galavan & Others 10
2 Wet n Black Nicholas O Leary 11
3 Antix 2 Peter O Leary 13

Cork Week Beneteau 31.7
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Flying Machine Barry Cunningham 5
2 Levante Brian Leyden/Michael Leahy 10
3 Eauvation Jason and Debbie Corlett 11

Cork Week Prima 38
Place Boat Owner Points
1 Another Nods Richard & Helen Booth 5
2 Mighty Max 3 Andy Williams 5
3 Longbow Mr P Anderson 8