Over 7th & 8th September Killaloe Sailing Club hosted the RS400 & RS200 Southerns. Twenty one boats entered the competition with boats travelling from Galway, Cullaun, Antrim, Cultra, Whitehead, Strangford Lough and a great big contingent from Blessington.
After four races and one discard, Robert Hastings aka Bosun Bob (SLYC) & Josh Porter (NSC) had a 5th and three bullets, took 1st place and ironically picked up the CH Marine RS Southern's Cup, followed by Purdon & Hayes (SLYC) in 2nd and Helme & Claffey (BLSC) taking 3rd. Long time antagonist Liam Donnelly (74) from CSC picked up the veteran's prize, he put his sailing longevity down to his vegetarian diet and tee-total lifestyle. Jocelyn Hill picked up 1st Female.
In the RS200s there were three separate race winners, and the points were very close after four races. McNaughton & Last (BLSC) took 1st on 6 points, O'Neill & Golder (KSC) took 2nd on 6 points on count back, Culloo & O'Connor (KSC) took 3rd on 7 points, and O'Brien & Haugh (KSC) were 4th on 7 points on count back, a very close set of results!
As this was the last traveller event of the year, the RS400 Traveller Trophy was awarded to 1004 Tom Purdon & Olivia Heyes from Strangford Lough YC. The RS200 Traveller Trophy was awarded to 1059 Timothy O'Neill & Ruth Gordon from Killaloe SC.
A big thank you to all the volunteers and members from Killaloe Sailing club for looking after us so well, from the registration team, parking and launching teams, rescue and mark boat teams, food and drinks organisers, the committee boat team and to David Mullally who directed operations so well. We will be back in the near future.
There is a lot happening over the next few months within the RS fleet:
The ISA Champions Cup (formerly the Helmsman's) will be hosted at RNIYC in the RS400s over 5th & 6th October.
The RYA NI have organised Transition Day for their Laser and Topper squads and anyone else thinking of getting into double handers. These will run on Sunday 13th & Sunday 27th October and the RS200s & RS400s will be at the centre of that.
Blessington Lakes Sailing Club will be running an open Autumn Series on Sunday 6th & Sunday 20th October. 4 Races per day, more details to follow.
RNIYC will be hosting the RS400 Frostie Series from Sunday 3rd November and this will run each Sunday right up until Sunday 22nd December.
The Irish RS400/200/Feva Association AGM will be held online on Thursday 17th October.
In 2025, RNIYC will be hosting the RS400 UK Nationals and combining this with the RS400 Irish Nationals. This will run from 3rd to 8th August 2025. This will be big!
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