WIORA

The dust has settled on another WIORA championship. With windy conditions everyone was reminded of safety first, and that reefing lines did exist on the main sails.

Race officer Scorie Walls got the first day off to a great start with IRC sailing 2 Olympic course races, non-spinnaker 2 triangular courses.

Day 2 the wind was much the same.

IRC sailed 2 Olympic course races followed by a third race, with a windward leeward course. Non spinnaker sailed 2 triangular courses.

Day 3 saw racing delayed for 3 hours.

When eventually racing got underway it was a windward leeward, followed by round the cans for both IRC and white sails.

The last day was the long race, and it resulted in some surprises in white sails. Tommiray in white sails class 4 showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the fleet. However, Kerry dream a Kerry 25 from the 1970’s won the day on corrected time.

Everyone had a great championship sailing. Racing and prize giving on the last day was extremely well received. Bev Lowe and his team are to be commended.

The under 25 team from Mayo. Received their grant from WIORA and their commodore invited everyone to join them in Mayo sailing club for WIORA 2025. One not to be missed.