Lough Swilly Yacht Club

Courtesy of Conor Desmond – here is a link to a game to test your knowledge on the Racing Rules of Sailing:

http://game.finckh.net/indexe.htm

All we need now are a few protests to put them into action…..

Many thanks to the White Harte for hosting the annual White Harte Regatta Day on Saturday.

The westerly winds made a true Olympic course a little ambitious, but we had two good races over short windward-gybe-leeward courses, and everyone was happily exhausted!

In Class 1 the overall result was a tie, decided on a tie-breaker between Zutsy and Desperado, with Chilli Padi third.

In Class 2 the MacGabhann brothers battled it out for first and second place, with Boomerang first and Tempo second, and Ladyhawk third on a tie breaker with Hot Potato.

Unfortunately, the forecast severe gale conditions on Sunday meant that the Granuaile Trophy was cancelled.

All race results are now available on-line on the 2012 Race Results page.

White Harte Regatta

Racing on Saturday will start at 11:00am at Rathmullan.
An additional mark will be laid to allow for Olympic style courses.
There will be two races, with a break for lunch on-board.
Prize-giving reception will be around 5pm in the White Harte, courtesy of the McAteer family.

Granuaile Cup

Racing on Sunday will start at 11:00 at Fahan Creek.
There will be one race round the buoys, finishing at Fahan.
Prize-giving and afternoon tea follow in the club-house.

The Hassons have revealed the reason for the absence of their new J24 Jumbo from Lough racing. This note was received over the weekend ……

“I’m sure the membership are getting anxious by our absence…well just to update, We have hauled our new WMD [weapon of mass destruction], Jumbo to Howth YC for the J24 East Ireland Championships which is taking place this weekend. We are delighted to be representing LSYC at the event and will do so at the IRC Nationals at the end of May, also at Howth YC, and the J24 North Ireland Championships at Lough Erne in mid June.

We are also racing in the colours of SeaFest 2012 to help to raise the profile of what is becoming our major regional annual event, and are officially entered as SeaFest 2012 for these events [see the links below for more].

http://seafestloughswilly.com/2012/04/26/seafest-competing-in-j24-ireland-eastern-championships/

https://www.hyc.ie/entryonline/J24easterns12/entrylist.asp

We are ably aided in this endeavour by the youth and talent of Stephen Doherty and the force that is Luke McBride!

We’re hoping for a big impact in our first event but realise that the Dublin crews will enjoy putting us “rural” sailors [as we have been referred to!!] to the sword. Nonetheless, we are prepared to sweat every last drop from our worthless bodies to climb as high up the results page as we can.

I’ve attached a few pics