The Topper Irish National Championships 2019 were held last weekend July 5th -7th at The Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club, Co Down.
The Royal Cork had 12 sailors representing the Royal Cork at the event.
We had excellent sailing conditions over the first two days with winds ranging from 7 to 13 knots under glorious sunshine.
The competition was strong especially from the GBR sailors.
After Day one after some excellent sailing over 3 races we had 3 RCYC sailors in the top 5 – Hugh Lynch (3rd),Darragh Collins(4th) and Cillian Foster(5th).
Day 2 – We had 4 races after which we had a mixed bag of results with Tim Evans GBR leading with 5 bullets but Hugh Lynch got a bullet in the 6th race and broke his winning streak .
At the end of day two Hugh Lynch is now in 2nd place with Darragh Collins(9th) and Cillian Foster(10th)
Day 3 – Very light winds awaited us at the club and the possibility of getting 2 races in looked slim.
Our sailors launched and drifted to the race area but thankfully the wind picked up – we got in our 2 races.
After 9 races the results were as follows
Hugh Lynch – 2019 Irish National Champion
Cillian Foster – 2nd Youth Male
Kate Horgan – 2nd Youth Female
Emma O’Sullivan – 3rd Youth Female
Full Overall 5.3 results were – Hugh Lynch(2),Cillian Foster (4th),Darragh Collins(10th),Neil O’Leary(13th),Kate Horgan (14th),Eoin Horgan (15th),Emma O”sullivan (21st),Oisin Mac Sweeney(22nd),Frances Corkery(23rd),Cian McDonagh(39th),Joe O”Sullivan(41st)
Rian Collins sailing in the 4.2 fleet had an amazing event scoring an amazing 9 bullets over 9 races !!!
Not very often do you see a sailor discarding bullets …..
Well Done Rian.
Congratulations to our prize winners and to all our sailors who as always represent our families and Club so well.
It is always great to see our sailors competing so strongly against each other on the water but have such a strong friendship once the race is over.
Diarmuid Lynch
Topper Class Captain.
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