Prize Winners - Photos

Prizes Presented by Commodore Peter McKenna

First Overall - Laura Dillon & Crew with the Commodore

(L-R) Des Brady, Frank Dillon, Laura Dillon,
Commodore Peter McKenna, Jonathan Hartshorn
Helm: Laura Dillon

First Overall

Laura Dillon receiving 'The HYC Helmsmans Championships Trophy'
(see note below about this trophy)

Second Overall

Garrett May receiving 2nd prize

Third Overall

Emmet Ryan receiving 3rd prize


Laura & crew pose with Stephen Harris (on right) - Skipper of Tiger
the Class 0 boat which the crew normally sail on.

A bit of history about 'The HYC Helmsmans Championships Trophy'
(which I got from Brian Turvey) ....


The trophy was originally donated by Derek Luke after his Howth Seventeen 'Zaida' was demasted off Portmarnock beach during a club race in 1959.

The top of Zaida's same mast was subsequently mounted on a plinth and used as a trophy for a match racing event between the Mermaid class from Clontarf (including Brian Turvey's father) and the Howth Seventeens. The format was that the Seventeeners would race the Clontarf team in their own Mermaids in the morning, followed by a 'lunch' in Findlaters and they would then race in the Seventeens in Howth in the afternoon.