Irish Flying Fifteen Nationals at Strangford Lough Yacht Club

 Lavery & Green dominated the regatta with three race wins. However, there were some races where, by their own admission, they had to draw on accumulated experience and practice sessions to extract themselves from middle of the fleet positions to get into the smaller single figure places that lend themselves to winning major regattas. After discard, they won by a whopping 16pts, with their worst result a 5th place in Races 1 and 4.

McCarthy & Thompson led three boats home on a post-discard score of 29pts, the final order here being McCarthy, Hammy Baker & Peter Chamberlain (3756), Peter Kennedy & Stephen Kane (3920). Two boats were tied on 40pts after discard with Chamberlain & Spratt getting the nod over Biggs & Pritchard Jones. On 41pts we find Trevor Darcy & Crew, followed by two boats on 43pts, Willis & McPeake and Meagher & Matthews. The top ten was closed out by Ian Matthews & Keith Poole (4093) with 51pts.

For the Irish Fifteen fleet. The next event is the Easterns which are scheduled for Dun Laoghaire on the weekend of 18th & 19th of September. Just enough time for a recalibration for those who need it!

Overall Results:

Pos Helm & Crew Sail R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Pts

1 John Lavery & Alan Green 4083 5 1 2 5 1 3 1 13

2 Shane McCarthy & Andy Thompson 4085 2 11 6 23 2 6 2 29

3 Hammy Baker & Peter Chamberlain 3756 3 4 8 6 6 2 14 29

4 Peter Kennedy & Stephen Kane 3920 4 6 4 4 4 12 7 29

5 Roger Chamberlain & Paddy Spratt 3962 14 5 1 23 14 9 4 40

6 Nigel Biggs & Simon Pritchard Jones 4092 7 3 3 23 14 9 4 40

7 Trevor Darcy & Crew 3782 9 12 9 3 10 7 3 41

8 Bryan Willis & John McPeake 4074 15 9 11 1 9 1 12 43

9 Niall Meagher & Nikki Matthews 3938 10 16 15 2 3 8 5 43

10 Ian Matthews & Keith Poole 4093 11 8 5 12 16 5 10 51

11 Peter Lawson & Chris Hannon 3893 8 15 7 8 8 14 6 51

12 Charlie Boland & Rob McConnell 3883 12 7 10 7 7 17 17 60

13 Lee Statham & Andy Paul 3896 16 2 16 10 13 11 9 61

14 Peter Murphy & Ciara Mulvey 3774 6 10 18 9 15 13 8 61

15 David Mulvin & Ronan Beirne 4068 1 14 12 13 11 16 19 67

16 Ben Mulligan & Cormac Bradley 4081 13 13 14 15 12 10 16 77

17 Tom Murphy & Carel La Roux 4057 17 17 20 11 17 15 15 92

18 Tom Galvin & Alan Balfe 3757 18 19 13 14 18 18 13 94

19 Niall Bradshaw & Lisa Byers 3454 19 20 17 16 20 20 18 110

20 Brian McKee & Crew 3198 20 18 19 17 19 19 20 112