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Result Details

Event name: Irish Nationals
Date: 03 July 2009
Type: Nationals
Club: Loch Ree
Classtype:MIRROR , see more results

Beautiful Lough Ree was the setting for the 2009 Mirror Nationals over three days,the nine race format was sailed using the courses to be used in the forth coming Worlds in Pwllheli at the end of July.

Thirty boats made the journey for a very hotly contested championship with the 2005 World Champion Ross Kearney coming over from England to support the event.

Friday dawned sunny with southerly force 4 winds which were very shifty. The courses were outer loop trapezoidals with a leeward gate on the outer loop, and the top and bottom reaches were set quite tight to make boat handling a premium. First around the windward mark in race one were father and daughter Mike and Sarah Hill with Adam and Toby McCullough close behind and Ross Kearney and Katy Jones also in hot pursuit. However after lots of place changing Johnny and Adam Hill came through to win the first race and with it the Innishfree cup.

The second race followed quickly with Adam and Toby McCullough making no mistake this time and led most of the way round to take the win. Ross Kearney and Katy Jones followed in second with Mike and Sarah Hill in third.

The final race of the day was sailed in a moderating wind with the usual suspects at the front, however Cormac and Tiarnan Dickson in one of the Association’s Winder Demo boats sailed a superb race to win with Adam and Toby McCullough in second. The leaders into the clubhouse were Adam and Toby, in the silver fleet Jack Maye and Muiris Fitzgerald from Sligo led the way, with Thomas Finiucane and Robert Dickson from Lough Ree also in an Association Winder Demo boat, were leading the bronze fleet.

Day two was somewhat of a marathon... thunder storms, torrential rain, calms, squalls…I think the fleet got all four seasons in one day. Credit must go the PRO David Dickson for getting three races in and getting us all ashore for the dinner in the club house at 6pm.

The battle at the front continued with Barry and Ronan Armstrong joining in to lead the fleet for most of the way until the torrential rain arrived killing the breeze leaving the final beat to be sailed in a force one.Mike and Sarah Hill took advantage and took the bullet with Cormac and Tiaran Dickson finishing very closely behind, with Adam and Toby in third with Ross and Katy next dropping Barry and Ronan to fifth.

After the thunderstorm abated the fleet was moved to a more sheltered part of the lake as the wind had now increased to force 4 to 5. However, just as the course was set up it dropped to a force 2 and the lightest race of the championship was held with Mike and Sarah Hill running away with it, with Jack Maye and Muiris Fitzgerald from Sligo in second and Kerri-Ann Boylan and Erika Rugrok from Skerries in third and Cillian Dickson and Peter Regan from Lough Ree in fourth.

The last race of the day was sailed in white horses which suited Ross Kearney and Katy Jones showing great speed on the tight reaches in the big breeze, thus they took the gun with Cormac and Tiaran Dickson following in second to bring them into contention for the overall title. In the silver fleet Kerri-Ann Boylan and Erika Rugrok were now forging ahead to take the overall lead from Jack and Muiris, with Julie Donnelan and Hazel McDermott from Lough Derg in third.

In the bronze fleet Thomas Finiucane and Robert Dickson still led with Andrew Brady and Sarah White from Sligo in second.

The final day was much improved with sunny spells and a good force 4 with occasional force 5 southerly shifty winds. Adam and Toby McCullough meant business and sailed suberbly to take two bullets in the first two races of the day with Cormac and Tiaran Dickson attaining and second and a third to stay in contention, with Mike and Sarah Hill also slotting in a second and a third to keep up the pressure. Thus it was all down to the last race with Ross Kearney and Katy Jones taking their second win to finish fourth overall, Mike and Sarah Hill just overhauled Cormac and Tiarnan Dickson on the last two hundred yards to finish second and take the title by one point with Adam and Toby McCullough finishing fourth behind Cormac and Tiaran to finish runners up. Cormac and Tiaran Dickson from Lough Ree took third overall.

In the silver fleet Kerri-Ann Boylan and Erika Rugrok finished first and a creditable ninth overall in the main fleet, Jack Maye and Muiris Fitzgerald followed in second with Lough Derg girls Julie Donnelan and Hazel McDermott completing the line up in third.

In the bronze fleet Thomas Finiucane and Robert Dickson ran away with it easy winners, finishing twelve overall in the main fleet. Second in the bronze fleet was Andrew Brady and Sarah White (with Andrew’s Dad helping the odd time), and third was Kevin Hackett and Hugh Duffy from Mullingar in third.

Rank Fleet SailNo Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Nett
1 Gold 70533 RNIYC -4 3 3 1 1 3 3 2 2 18
2 Gold 70511 RNIYC 2 1 2 3 -9 5 1 1 4 19
3 Gold 70426 LRYC -6 4 1 2 5 2 2 3 3 22
4 Gold 7050 RNIYC 3 2 5 4 -7 1 4 4 1 24
5 Gold 70304 LRYC -7 5 4 6 4 4 6 5 5 39
6 Gold 70172 Sligo YC 5 6 6 5 6 -9 5 9 6 48
7 Gold 70507 RNIYC 1 7 8 8 13 8 7 6 (26 DNF) 58
8 Gold 70465 Skerries SC -10 8 7 10 10 7 8 7 7 64
9 Silver 70 Skerries SC 9 13 -17 14 3 11 11 11 10 82
10 Gold 70425 Sligo YC 8 9 9 9 15 10 -16 13 11 84
11 Gold 70225 Skerries SC 11 12 -14 7 12 13 14 8 13 90
12 Bronze 21645 LRYC 17 10 10 -21 19 6 10 12 8 92
13 Silver 69805 Sligo YC 12 18 11 25 2 14 9 10 (26 DNF) 101
14 Gold 70309 LRYC 15 14 18 13 8 15 -24 16 14 113
15 Silver 70289 LDYC 13 21 15 -22 11 16 13 19 9 117
16 Silver 69800 Sligo YC 19 15 -20 19 17 12 12 14 16 124
17 Silver 69797 Mullingar SC 20 (27 DNS) 13 11 16 18 19 17 12 126
18 Silver 70355 LRYC 23 11 16 -27 14 20 18 18 15 135
19 Bronze 70290 Sligo YC 18 20 12 -24 18 17 15 21 18 139
20 Bronze 69558 Mullingar SC (31 DNC) 16 21 16 21 21 17 15 23 150
21 Bronze 69118 LDYC 16 19 22 17 22 19 20 22 (31 DNC) 157
22 Bronze 70087 Sligo YC 21 17 24 15 20 -28 25 24 17 163
23 Bronze 69664 Sligo YC 14 22 19 18 (29 DNF) 23 22 23 26 DNF 167
24 Bronze 70337 LDYC 28 DNF (31 DNC) 23 20 25 22 23 20 19 180
25 Bronze 70518 RStGYC 24 26 27 12 23 27 (29 DNF) 25 20 184
26 Bronze 69227 RStGYC 22 23 25 23 26 24 26 (30 DNF) 22 191
27 Bronze 70266 LRYC 26 27 -28 28 28 25 21 26 21 202
28 Bronze 703 LDYC 25 24 26 29 24 26 28 (30 DNF) 26 DNS 208
29 Bronze 68485 LRYC 27 25 28 DNS 26 27 29 27 27 (31 DNC) 216
30 Bronze 70318 LRYC (31 DNC) 31 DNC 31 DNC 31 DNC 31 DNC 31 DNC 31 DNC 30 DNF 31 DNC 247
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