Gales Spoil Final Weekend of Autumn League
  Saturday 22nd October
 
Report: Graham Smith
 
Southerly gales put paid to racing on the final day of the WD-40 Autumn League, sponsored by Team PR Reilly, leaving the series to be decided on the results of the three races sailed on previous weekends.

With one Sunday abandoned for lack of wind and the last day a complete blow-out, the League was, for the first time in many years, reduced to half of its schedule of races.
 

Class 1 IRC - Storm - Pat Kelly
 

Class 1 ECHO - Tiger - Stephen Harris & Frank Hughes
 

Class 2 IRC - Dux - Anthony Gore-Grimes
 

Class 2 ECHO - Indigo - Julian Ritchie & Patricia Eadie
 
In some classes, it didn't really matter a lot, with a number of three-wins-in-a-row crews on target to wrap up their particular series.

In Class 1, for instance, 'Storm' (Pat Kelly) and 'Tiger' (Harris/Hughes) had treble successes on IRC and ECHO respectively so were clear winners in those categories while Anthony Gore-Grimes' 'Dux' had the same score-sheet on IRC in Class 2. Nearest rival was 'Indigo' (Ritchie/Eadie) which had the satisfaction of reversing that order to win the ECHO prize.
 

Class 3 IRC - Quickflash - Alfred Mayrs (Antrim BC)
 

Class 3 ECHO - Goyave - Russell Camier & Colm Fitzpatrick
 
Class 3 showed the best results for visitors, with Alfred Mayrs' 'Quickflash' from Antrim securing the IRC title by a single point from Russell Camier and Colm Fitzpatrick's 'Goyave' from Malahide, with the latter enjoying success on ECHO by winning that division, also by a point, from Ed Bourke's Starlet.
 

Class 4 IRC - Bite the Bullet - Colm Bermingham
 

Class 4 ECHO - Sojourn - William Lacy & Charles Blandford
 

Class 5 IRC - Alphida - Harry Byrne
 

Class 5 ECHO - Demelza - Stephanie Ennis & Windsor Laudan
 
Colm Bermingham's 'Bite the Bullet' won Class 4 IRC by the narrowest of margins from 'Changeling' (Kieran Jameson), which had to settle for second again on ECHO, this time behind the impressive debutant 'Sojourn' (Lacy/Blandford).

Harry Byrne and the crew of 'Alphida' retained their Class 5 IRC title, a point ahead of 'Demelza' (Ennis/Lauden), but the veteran Shamrock enjoyed a second successive series victory on ECHO.
 

J24 - Hard on Port - Flor O'Driscoll
 

Etchells - Dirty Protest - Jay Bourke
 
Three straight wins gave the Etchells top prize to Jay Bourke in 'Dirty Protest' while despite missing the second race because he was competing in the All-Ireland Sailing Championship at Lough Derg, Flor O'Driscoll ('Hard on Port') took the J/24 title from Mossy Shanahan's 'Crazyhorse' (on the same points) because of winning the other two races.
 

Puppeteer SCR & H'CAP - Gold Dust
Scorie Walls & Declan Browne
 
It was success on the double in the Puppeteers for the Walls/Browne partnership on 'Gold Dust', with a narrow win over 'Mojo' (Callen/Stanley) on scratch and a bigger four point gap on handicap over the same opposition.
 

Squib SCR & H'CAP - Kerfuffle - Jonathan Craig & Hazel Ruane
 

Howth 17 SCR & H'CAP - Oona - Peter Courtney
 
It was a similar story in both the Squibs and 17s, with Kerfuffle (Craig/Ruane) winning the former and 'Oona' (Peter Courtney) the latter both on scratch and handicap.


  Prize Draw Sponsorship
from Maasailand Adventures

Roger Cagney receives prize from Sales Director,
Mubarak Habib, on behalf of the winner Richard McAllister
 
Maasailand Adventures provided a sponsorship Draw for flights for two from London to Mombasa, Kenya.

Richard McAllister won this very attractive prize. He wasn't at the prize giving so Roger accepted it on his behalf.
 
 
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