GP14 Championship of Ireland 2021 at Lough Erne Yacht Club

 The weekend saw the GP14 fleet return to Lough Erne Yacht Club for the 2021 Irish Championships. The event was kindly supported by Enniskillen Bid, Fermanagh & Omagh District Council, Ropelocker.ie and Inish Macsaint Fermanagh Beer.

40 boats took part, including past Olympians, world champions and novice racers. Four of the 40 boats were from Lough Erne Yacht Club with the others travelling from all over Ireland to compete on the waters of Lower Lough Erne.

On the water volunteers set up eight races over the three days led by Derek Bothwell from Howth, Co Dublin, a national race officer.

Owens of Royal Saint George Yacht Club and Brogan of Sligo Yacht Club held on for the race win and took their fourth & eighth Irish GP14 titles respectively.

Shane and Josh finished 1 point behind in second place overall with Ross & Jane third.

Silver fleet went to James Peter Hockley & Alan Thompson from Lough Foyle Yacht Club, and the Bronze fleet to Matthew Cotter & Tom Mulligan from Sutton Dinghy Club.

First Veteran was Hugh Gill, with the youth title going to Ciaran Keogh & Adam Leddy from Greystones Sailing Club.

At the prize-giving, winner Ger Owens thanked all the Lough Erne Yacht Club volunteers and sponsors for a superb event.

Overall Results:

Pos Fleet Boat Sail No Helm Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Pts

1st Gold 14256 Ger Owens Brendan Brogan 2 ‑3 3 3 1 ‑8 1 1 11

2nd Gold 14203 Shane MacCarty Josh Porter ‑4 1 1 ‑7 2 1 4 3 12

3rd Gold Purple Rocket 14242 Ross Kearney Jane Kearney 1 2 2 ‑9 ‑12 2 3 7 17

4th Gold Yin Tang 14275 Hugh Gill Daniel Gill 3 ‑11 5 1 3 7 5 ‑8 24

5th Silver Fred 14254 James Hockley Alan Thompson 5 9 6 ‑25 8 ‑14 6 4 38

6th Gold No Surprise 14144 Colman Grimes Ross Gingles 12 4 ‑19 11 14 5 2 ‑15 48

7th Gold Delusion 14270 Norman Lee Alan Leddy 7 16 9 4 11 3 DNF ‑17 50

8th Gold 1414 Adrian Lee Gareth Gallagher 6 6 SCP 8 ‑22 ‑24 8 10 50

9th Gold 14247 John McGuinness Donal McGuinness 9 OCS 7 10 OCS 4 7 18 55

10th Silver Kanaka 13901 Steven Nelson Daniel Nelson ‑15 13 8 13 9 6 DNF 6 55

11th Gold 14214 Keith Louden Mateo Louden 17 12 ‑18 6 6 13 DNF 5 59

12th Gold Trouble on the way 14219 Curly Morris Stephanie Corkhill 8 ‑21 DNF 5 16 12 10 11 62

13th Gold Solaro 14 0 Katie Dwyer Michelle Rowley 11 15 DNF 16 10 10 DNF 2 64

14th Gold X Diarmaid Mullen Lauren Donaghy 10 17 11 ‑28 7 15 DNF 13 73

15th Silver 14241 Patrick Hamilton James Dewhurst 13 7 10 22 13 11